Pickens County News

Jerel Deon Young of Boligee was arrested when U.S. Marshals told deputies he might be ion a tugboat.

Police believe a Gordo man found dead in a wrecked vehicle this weekend was the victim of an accidental gunshot wound.

The phone hadna t rang in a while, leaving business for a builder a oesimply pathetic.a Dudley said he needed to get his hands busy on a project, so he threw a handful of Cyprus roots into his flat-bottom boat.

In the East, continued heavy rain from the Tennessee Valley into the Ohio Valley produced flooding conditions from eastern Kentucky to northern Alabama and northern Georgia.

Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 6:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 10:28 a.m. Sitting in his office amidst boxes of election signs and t-shirts, Councilman Bobby Howard of District 1 explained how he intends to improve the quality of life of District 1 citizens if he is re-elected to a second term.

A disturbing story out of Pickens County tonight as authorities try to track a pack of wild dogs they believe may have killed a 96-year-old man and consumed his remains.

Authorities in Pickens County, Alabama, are trying to track a pack of wild dogs they believe may have killed a 96-year-old man and consumed his remains.

An Alabama man June 9 was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges in the Pickens County, Ala., Circuit Court.

The line of thunderstorms sweeping through the Birmingham-Hoover metro area this evening has brought high winds, but no report of tornadoes, according to officials with the National Weather Service.

The once powerful band of thunderstorms that crossed southern sections of the Birmingham metro area earlier this afternoon has weakened now, and is just a broken band of light to moderate rain showers extending from Cullman to southern Talladega county.

While we have enjoyed dry, tranquil weather across central Alabama this evening, a stout line of thunderstorms has pushed across northern Mississippi.

B.J. Sandlin of Maloy Automotive in Jasper was in the front office when a funnel cloud passed low over the business Wednesday morning.

B.J. Sandlin of Maloy Automotive in Jasper was in the front office when a funnel cloud passed low over the business Wednesday morning.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OFREFORMPICKENSVILLECARROLLTON * UNTIL 900 AM CDT * AT 806 AM CDTTHE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF ETHELSVILLEOR 9 MILES ...

The West Alabama Food Bank loaded about 10,000 pounds of food into trucks and took its mobile food pantry on the road for the first time.