Perry County News

Perry County, Alabama, residents who were victims of the Jan. 23 tornadoes will be eligible for federal disaster aid, the offices of U.S. Rep.

The National Weather Service, citing several witnesses, is reporting that at least 10 homes received damage on Church Street in Uniontown.

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management faces a civil rights complaint for permitting a landfill to take coal ash spilled three years ago in the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston disaster in eastern Tennessee.

A complaint has been filed with the federal Environmental Protection Agency against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management accusing the state agency of racial discrimination when it issued a permit to a landfill in Perry County near Uniontown.

An Ohio woman was killed, and four others injured, Monday in Perry County when a sports utility vehicle crashed after the driver apparently swerved to avoid striking a deer, Alabama State Troopers report.