Wetumpka News

The Wetumpka City Council has given the police department a pay raise, but not without some bickering.

WETUMPKA -- An Elmore County man is on trial for a list of sex charges after admitting, during an interview for a law enforcement position, that he possessed child pornography and had sex with an underage girl.

What do you get when you mix Wetumpka's 175th birth day celebration and Indepen dence Day? A great time for ev eryone involved.

Shoppers in the tri-county area again will be able to pur chase some school supplies, computers and clothing tax-free during the first weekend in Au gust.

A man led police on an ill-advised high-speed car chase through Prattville on Satur day morning, about an hour before the town's annual Fourth of July parade.

When Alabama and Auburn play each other during the col lege football season the state comes to a stand still, and there wasn't any difference for the city of Wetumpka earlier this week On Monday, the Wetumpka National League All-Stars squeezed out a hard-fought vic tory, 12-11, over the city's Amer ican League All-Stars at the Whetstone Baseball ...

The number of people who take part in a new program is most often used as a gauge of that program's success.

More info: WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? How will you spend the Fourth of July week end? What is your favorite aspect of the national holiday? Do you plan to participate in either We tumpka's birthday celebration or Prattville's patri otic program and activities? This weekend will be a time to celebrate all things American.

The following incidents were recently reported by the We tumpka Police Department: Theft -- Items valued at more than $500 were taken from a ve hicle stationed in the Wal-Mart parking lot on June 22.

In a couple of days, the down town area in Wetumpka will fill with people who traveled from near and far to help the city cele brate its 175th birthday as well as Independence Day.

WETUMPKA -- You don't want to steal the district attorney's money. Just ask Darrell 'Cassanova' Towns, 30, of Texarkana, Ark., who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft by deception charges in Elmore County District Court on Monday afternoon.

Air Force Airman David C. Floyd graduated from ba sic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.

WETUMPKA -- The young widow of a slain Millbrook father of two testified in front of a hushed courtroom Thursday.

A Father's Day event turned tragic on Sunday afternoon in Wetumpka, when a white male drowned in the Coosa River aft er his kayak overturned and he became entrapped underneath the water.

Prosecutors in the capital murder trial of Calvin McMillan, 20, of Opelika on Tuesday morning showed jurors surveillance video from the parking lot of the Millbrook Wal-Mart, where James Bryan Martin, 23, was shot to death in August 2007.

The city of Wetumpka is on the heels of reaching another milestone on its long list of ac complishments -- turning 175 years young.

A 64-year-old Montgomery resident died Sunday in a kayaking accident in Elmore County.

The Wetumpka City Council has been asked to approve additional funding for items ranging from equipment for the Police Department to a vehicle for the new Public Works director -- items that may have been included in department budgets that have already been submitted.

By Gary Palmer The United States Supreme Court recently issued an opinion that could impact the future of Poarch Creek Indian gambling operations in Alabama.

The Redland community has walked down the path regarding incorporation before, but this time, no outside influence has supplied any pressure.