Woodland News

Facing unprecedented budget deficits, most Alabama legislators opted out of state-paid trips to conferences in Colorado Springs, Colo., and San Diego last weekend.

As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit.

Investigators believed the 14-year-old youngster started the fight. He was not identified because of his age.

As country music swung back toward traditional styles in the 1980s, an inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard rose to the top of the business and notched hit after barroom hit.

His grandmother told him the story when he was 9. Johnny Rollins, 49, of Heflin, still remembers.

A convicted drug trafficker from Alabama was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary announced.