Barbour County News

Alabama's unemployment rate is now into double digits. Octobera s state average was 10.9, but one Wiregrass area is seeing much worse numbers.

Barbour County residents have a chance to make a child overseas smile this Christmas.

Vandals target a Barbour County landmark. Broken headstones and missing urns are scattered at the Shorter Cemetery in Eufaula.

Every month, we publish percentages, statistics and other numbers about the county's unemployment rate.

It is one thing for a son to learn his father isn't the great and perfect person he placed on a pedestal as a child - the one he desired to emulate in every way possible.

A Pittsview man faces multiple felony crimes after Barbour County authorities recently arrested him as part of a traffic checkpoint near Eufaula.

It would be wise to have an umbrella tonight and tomorrow. That's because Tropical Storm Ida is expected to dump several inches of rain on Barbour and Quitman counties.

On 11-02-2009 Sheriff LeRoy Upshaw received information to the location of some property that was stolen from 325 Co.

Willie Goodson Brazier, 78, of Ariton was traveling north on Alabama Highway 51 in Barbour County when her vehicle traveled into the path of a 2000 Peterbilt tractor-trailer that was traveling south on Alabama Highway 51 driven by Grant Baker Jr., 53, of Auburn, AL.

His consistent presence at one of the busiest intersections in Dothan seemed to encourage a slowing down.

Three Barbour County men face a total of 48 charges after victims at a local residence were raped, robbed and kidnapped early Monday morning.

Three men from Barbour County face 48 charges including rape, robbery and kidnap after an early morning home-invasion incident in Troy, the Troy Messenger reports.

Three hundred doses of H1Ni vaccines will be available Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Barbour County Health Department office in Eufaula.

Out-of-town developers closed their deal on the former Walker properties on Highland Avenue Sept.

The name "Deerfield Place" ironically describes key elements of Paladin Community Development's plan to build a 40-unit apartment complex for low-income residents in a traffic-congested neighborhood near both Sanford Elementary School and the city's prized historic district.

The Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Barbour County is collecting food for their annual "Fill the Pantry" drive to benefit Harvest Time Ministries in Clayton.

Sheriff LeRoy Upshaw announced the arrest of three persons in connection with the rash of burglaries in the Rocky Mount community.

An Ariton couple is asking for $600,000 as part of a federal lawsuit which claims four law enforcement officers, including the chief deputy of the Barbour County Sheriff's Office, improperly searched their home.

Melissa Boutwell of Boutwell Farms in Clayton raises grass-fed cows and pastured chickens and pigs.

Brundidge Police arrested a convicted sex offender Tuesday, after he allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl.