Wetumpka News

Barbara Ferry of Wetumpka works with her dog Sage. The duo are members of the Dixie Dogs, Alabama's only Dog Scouts of America troop.

The news of allegations of sexual abuse at Tutwiler Prison for Women near Wetumpka came out last week.

Kayakers compete in the 2010 Coosa River Whitewater Festival. This year's kayak competition is at the mercy of the weather.

He lived on the north side of Ballard Hill in the Spring Hill community and she lived on the south side of the hill.

If you lived through the 80's you probably remember the show "Fantasy Island" where Tatu said "the plane, the plane." It was a sea plane touching down in the water.

J ulia S. Tutwiler would be aghast. You remember Julia, right? She was a woman who loved Alabama enough to demand better from it.

Robert Stewart of Wetumpka took first place at last year's National IronKids Triathlon in West Des Moines.

At about 11 p.m. Thursday, Millbrook police officers responded to the 3300 block of Main Street with regard to shots fired into an occupied vehicle.

When you travel and have to leave your dog behind, you can call a kennel, hire a pet sitter - or... * The Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System will hold its annual Memorial Day observance at 2:30 p.m. today at its Montgomery VA Medical Center, 215 Perry Hill Road in Montgomery.

The Tuscaloosa News reports that the National Guard announced that it would close 13 armories.

The Equal Justice Initiative began investigating Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in 2011 after a woman said she was assaulted by a nurse at the prison.

Eight years after Ted Conover's book, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing , came out, a Pew report found that 1 in 100 Americans were behind bars.

We often find that when we search for one thing, we find something unexpected and much more important.

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Mercidee McKinney's story is a prime example of Birmingham fire fighters' biggest fear: that the recent fires from abandoned structures will spread to inhabited buildings and hurt innocent bystanders.

A prisoner's rights group has asked the U.S. Justice Department to look into alleged sexual abuse of inmates by guards at an Alabama women's prison.

It's my position that instead of wanting the city, county, federal government and the Native American reservations to change their laws pertaining to electronic bingo in the state of Alabama and on the Native American reservations why can't the state of Alabama change its laws pertaining to the issue.

If you're lucky enough to live in some parts of the United States, you may see gas pump prices fall... The Alabama River Region Arts Center on West Tallassee Street in Wetumpka is the site for two separate weeklong sessions of 'Camp Artumpka.' / Matt Okarmus/advertiser WETUMPKA - For two weeks this summer, the Alabama River Region Arts Center in ... (more)

A judge has dismissed child sex charges pending against a Wetumpka man, but the respite may be a short one.

During the early hours of the morning, SWAT team members from a number of local, state and federal agencies executed 14 federal search warrants in Central Alabama - seven in Elmore County, two in Autauga county and five in Montgomery County.