Etowah County News

The three Etowah County residents charged in Tuesday's robbery of Southern Bank in Albertville were placed on $500,000 bonds by District Judge Liles Burke after Albertville Chief of Detectives Capt.

The three Etowah County residents charged in Tuesday's robbery of Southern Bank in Albertville were placed on $500,000 bonds by District Judge Liles Burke after Albertville Chief of Detectives Capt.

Two escaped inmates are still on the run this morning. Three men escaped from the Boaz City Jail Sunday morning.

Deputies in Gadsden, U.S. Marshals and the FBI are still looking for two men who allegedly robbed an Anniston bank this morning and later kidnapped two women from a Lenlock neighborhood.

The FBI has identified a suspect they say is wanted in connection with yesterday's bank robbery and kidnapping in Lenlock.

Edward Ray Tillery, 70, of Boaz, died Monday, July 14, 2008, at his home in Etowah County.

Welton Childers, 65, of Boaz, died Sunday, July 13, 2008, at his home in Etowah County.

An Etowah County man has died after he was shot in the neck with an arrow from a crossbow.

When John Simmons came to Jacksonville First United Methodist as its new pastor earlier this month, it was, in a sense, a homecoming.

Human remains found in a freezer in a home are believed to be an Etowah County teenager missing since March, and police have two suspects in custody, Sheriff Todd Entrekin said.

Etowah County Investigator Michael Barton tells ABC 33/40 that the body of 15-year old Jeffrey Blake Stone has been found.

A Boaz woman has been killed in a one-vehicle car accident. The Alabama Department of Public Safety says Brenda Lee Fernandez died Wednesday night around 11:30 P.M. She was driving in a 2002 Ford Escort on ...

A grand jury in Etowah County has indicted a Hokes Bluff veterinarian who was shot and had his clinic set ablaze in April.

Alabama state troopers say a Boaz woman was killed in a one-vehicle accident in Etowah County.

Police in Attalla are trying to determine what prompted an elderly man to fatally shoot his bedridden wife and then take his own life.

Tightly packed bricks filled with marijuana were taken from property in rural Etowah County along with bundles of cash, and firearms.

Four people, including a Boaz man, were injured in area traffic accidents over the weekend, according to state troopers.

Darrell Nicholson has pleaded not guilty to a charge of reckless endangerment. Nicholson, the parks and recreation director in Boaz, was to be in municipal court this week.

The economy and jobs are among the top issues in Etowah County, two candidates for the County Commission said.

A Hokes Bluff veterinarian who was shot and had his clinic set ablaze in April has been charged with arson, cruelty to animals and filing a false report with police.