Morgan County News

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce has a new director of communications, according to a press release issued Tuesday afternoon.

Morgan County Commission Chairman Ray Long has been named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Daybreak Rotary Club in Decatur.

The Morgan County School Board made 28 of its employees happy and an equal number sad on Thursday as it acted on Superintendent Bill Hopkins Jr's personnel recommendations for the 2013-2014 school year.

The John Mark Stallings Special Needs Accessible Playground of Morgan County recently added a $56,569 entryway to the existing swing area, splash pad and pavilion.

Gary Cosby Jr./The Decatur Daily Habitat for Humanity of Morgan County dedicated a new home for Amy Kilgore, her daughter Kylee Kilgore and son Brett Corum Sunday on Sheraton St.

The Morgan County probate office issued the following marriage licenses May 8-15: Johnathon Drew Snipes, Decatur, to Rachel Lauren Culpepper, Decatur.

SoulStock, North Alabama's largest Christian music festival, is Friday and Saturday at Point Mallard Park in Decatur.

At Spring Creek Bridge on County Road 400, a group was fishing Wednesday evening.

The Morgan County Board of Education got its first look at the preliminary design for the proposed new Priceville High School at a work session Thursday night, and its members left with mixed emotions.

Three people were arrested Sat., May 11, after the Morgan County Drug Task Force discovered a one-pot meth lab in their residence, according to the Morgan County Sheriff's Office.

Drew Cooper of the Danville FFA Chapter recently won the Morgan County FFA Creed Speaking Contest held at Danville High School.

Jackson Broadfoot of the Danville FFA Chapter recently won the Morgan County FFA Prepared Public Speaking Contest held at Danville High School.

A paraplegic woman in Hartselle was held hostage by her caretaker Monday evening, but the situation ended peacefully, according to The Times' news partner, WHNT News 19 .

Decatur's economic health depends on the industries that line Alabama 20. Those industries depend, for the most part, on trucks to deliver finished product and receive supplies.

You get a call from someone who claims to be your grandchild. The caller says there's an emergency, perhaps an automobile accident and asks you to send money so they can get out of jail.

A motorcyclist remained in Huntsville Hospital's surgical intensive care unit today, a day after he was injured in a wreck near Falkville.

Three people were arrested following a weekend welfare check in which deputies found meth lab equipment, Morgan County Sheriff Ana Franklin said.

The Decatur-Morgan County NAACP has changed its monthly meetings to 6 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month, at Moulton Heights Missionary Baptist Church, 1229 22nd Ave.

Morgan County's budget to construct the new Priceville High School on Bethel Road got a boost from city officials.

A 17-year-old male from Morgan County has been charged with Desecration of Graves, Theft of Property, and Criminal Mischief.