Perry County News

The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama is being honored with his own holiday in Perry County. The Alabama Black Belt county that gained national attention when it established a holiday to honor Barack Obama's presidential election is celebrating that holiday with five days of activities.

A former Alabama State Trooper has been indicted on a first-degree sexual abuse charge stemming from a woman's complaint that he fondled her while in his trooper car along a Perry County Highway last year, according to Perry County's district attorney.

A trackhoe scoops up spilled coal ash which is being loaded into rail cars for shipment to an Alabama landfill in Perry County for disposal.

Trauma Injuries Steadily Declining at Children's ... Trauma doctors at Children's have seen a steady decrease in brain and spinal cord injuries since ThinkFirst Alabama got started.

Millions of pounds of Tennessee coal ash continue to be dumped in a Perry County landfill, leaving many people in the area steaming mad about the situation.

A coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee on December 22nd, 2008 has people in Uniontown spilling into city hall.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled today that a prosecutor doesn't have disclose his list of possible witnesses and their expected testimony in the prosecution of a 44-year-old shooting death from the civil rights era.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled a prosecutor doesn't have to disclose his list of possible witnessesand their expected testimony in the prosecution of a 44-year-old shooting death from the civil rights movement.

" A 16 year-old Uniontown resident is facing a felony charge in Dallas County and possibly two more in two different counties after one free-for-all night through four counties.

The citizens of poverty-stricken Uniontown in Perry County, Ala. are crying, 'Not in my backyard.' And rightfully so.

The district attorney for Perry County said his office will take "a tough stand" against those charged in Monday's melee in Marion, Alabama.

MARION - Call it "Law and Disorder." Imagine you're a police officer standing in the middle of a violent disturbance involving up to 200 very angry men, women and teenagers intent on hurting each other.

MARION - Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats.

It sounds almost like the infamous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys along the Tug River in West Virginia, but this one is in Perry County, Alabama.

Marion city complex, including city hall, left, and police department, right. Marion Mayor Tony Long said shortly before noon that calm had returned to his Perry County town after the "full-scale riot" that broke out earlier in the morning, and that outside law enforcement agencies would stay around to help maintain order for "as long as we got to ...

August 4, 2009 The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun to ship millions of pounds of toxic coal ash from Kingston, Tennessee, to a landfill in Alabama.

Three men died in a single-vehicle crash late Thursday in Perry County, six miles west of Marion.

UNIONTOWN -- Two-lane roads lined with weeds and trees seem to stretch forever in Perry County, where thousands of residents are poor even by Alabama stan dards and they don't produce much for the outside world besides timber and catfish.

TVA is in the process of sending roughly 3 million tons of coal fly ash to Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown, Alabama.