Tuscaloosa County News

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 8:55 p.m. TUSCALOOSA The Tuscaloosa County Civic Hall of Fame will induct five citizens at its ninth annual ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Hotel Capstone.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 11:20 p.m. TUSCALOOSA The West Alabama Tourism Awards were presented during a ceremony Thursday night at the Jemison-Van de Graaf Mansion.

Gubernatorial candidate Dr. Robert J. Bentley released his for increasing the accessibility and affordability of health care in Alabama Thursday.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 11:44 p.m. TUSCALOOSA A 1-cent sales tax for school construction, approved by voters in 2001 on the expectation it would expire in five years, got new life Wednesday.

Tuscaloosa police have arrested 32-year old Chip and Amy Ervin. They say the couple had sex with at-least one minor and gave at-least three others Alcohol and Marijuana.

Published: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 10:45 p.m. MONTGOMERY A group that formed after the state's prepaid college tuition plan started experiencing funding problems is hoping that the 2010 legislative session will include a bailout for the plan.

Published: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 3:29 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 3:29 p.m. TUSCALOOSA A Duncanville teenager was behind bars on Sunday after allegedly shooting a man in downtown Tuscaloosa.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:57 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:57 a.m. About 50 people stood in line early this morning to get their H1N1 vaccines at the Tuscaloosa County Health Clinic, including infants, children and pregnant women.

Spain Park High School closed the regular season with a 35-21 win on the road Thursday night at Huntsville.

Larry Langford was por trayed last week as a serious clotheshorse whose love of shopping was like a heroin addiction, a man who couldn't pay his tai lors, was behind on his taxes and past due on a fat bank loan.

Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's deputies arrested four people early Friday morning on meth charges.

Tennessee, California, Washington state, Oklahoma and Louisiana have the highest combined state and average local sales tax rates, according to updated information released by the nonpartisan Tax Foundation today.

Two men involved in a shootout during the lunch hour in a busy area of Tuscaloosa remain hospitalized.

U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler has been on the federal bench since 2003, when he was nominated by President George W. Bush.

A McCalla teenager is being charged as an adult in his father's murder. Investigators say Jeramie Trey Mink shot his father around 10:00pm Thursday.

Investigators have charged a 16-year-old from McCalla with murder in the shooting death of his father.

There is a lot more to Alabama football than watching the Crimson Tide play in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

A 37-year-old Munford woman was killed Tuesday night in Tuscaloosa County after her SUV struck a tree, according to state authorities.

A Tuscaloosa man avoided a possible death sentence Tuesday by pleading guilty to murdering his father by beating him to death with a lamp.

Tuscaloosa's city planning and economic development director says his city needs to follow the lead of Birmingham, Hoover, Bessemer and other Alabama cities by offering incentives to attract retailers, the Tuscaloosa News reports.