Anniston, Alabama

• Armed attacker takes hostage in Anniston Kmart
  

  Police block the entrance to the Kmart parking lot in Anniston. Police are negotiating with an armed suspect who has taken a hostage inside Annistona s Kmart store.

• Hostage situation reported at Anniston, Ala. store
  

  Police in Anniston say they're negotiating with an armed man they say has taken a hostage inside a Kmart store.

• Hostage situation at Anniston Kmart
  

  A suspect is holding someone hostage inside the Kmart store in Anniston. The FBI says at least one person is being held in the store on McClellan Boulevard.

• Paul Rilling: Opinions on the front page
  

  In its Aug. 29 Sunday edition, The Star carried a highly unusual front-page editorial.

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• Man beats another with a stick, police say
  

  Anniston police are searching for a man they suspect beat another man with a wooden stick, sending him to Regional Medical Center Thursday afternoon with multiple lacerations on his face.

• Mayor calls for end to inquiry, focus on budget
  

  Anniston Mayor Gene Robinson speaks outside City Hall as City Manager Don Hoyt , and councilmen John Spain and David Dawson look on.

• Bids roll in for Anniston aquatic center
  

  The sagging economy may work to Annistona s benefit, as construction companies vie for a city contract to build a new aquatic center.

• The Anniston council: What readers are saying
  

  The Star has received a number of letters to the editor in response to its coverage of the Anniston City Council and Sunday's front-page editorial.

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• Anniston man beaten with a stick, police investigate
  

  Anniston police are investigating a man accused of beating an acquaintance with a stick after the victim was treated for cuts, bruises and a swollen jaw at Stringfellow Memorial Hospital Monday afternoon.

• County building re-opens after pipe break
  

  Officials at the Calhoun County Administration Building at 17th and Noble streets in Anniston say the building reopened at noon, after being closed all morning due to a broken water pipe.

• A Teachable Moment: Model City Wildcats
  

  Laura Kilgore doesn't live in Anniston, though you'd never know it if you saw her at home.

• Redraw those lines: Ward updates would help Anniston
  

  Next April, the results of the 2010 Census will land with a thud, a resounding noise that will put politicians, policymakers and mapmakers to work.

• Debra, Congratulations! You are truly blessed and highly...
  

  Debra H. Jones, the Republican candidate for Circuit Judge, Place #3, of Calhoun and Cleburne Counties, was honored with the distinguished American Biographical Institute for Dedication and Excellence award of Woman of the Year in Law 2010.

• Mayor subpoenaed in council inquiry, asks judge to block move
  

  Mayor Gene Robinson received a subpoena this morning ordering his appearance at the City Councila s inquiry into alleged illegal or illicit activities at City Hall, and within an hour had asked a judge to block the order, he said.

• Un-American to harass the sick
  

  Re "Anniston man finds one state's medicine is another's illicit drug" : Harassing the sick and dying is an un-American activity.

• Listen to MDA's message: What is Palmore's plan?
  

  Turning McClellan from an under-used former Army post into an economic engine for northeast Alabama isn't a job for one man, one office or one entity.

• Military families get help overcoming stresses of deployment, reunion
  

  Patrick Ostbloom helps his wife, Amanda, avoid obstacles during an exercise at a marriage counseling retreat at Mount Cheaha.

City Description

Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the state of Alabama, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 24,276. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 23,741. The city is the county seat of Calhoun County and one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Named The Model City by Atlanta newspaperman Henry W. Grady for its careful planning in the late 1800s, the city is situated on the slope of Blue Mountain. Though the surrounding area was settled long before, the mineral resources in the area of Anniston weren't exploited until the Civil War. During that time, the Confederate States of America established and operated an iron furnace near present day downtown Anniston, until the furnace was destroyed by Union troops in 1865. Later, clay pipe for sewer systems became the focus of Anniston's industrial output. Clay pipe, also called soil pipe, was popular until the advent of plastic pipe in the 1960s. In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, Union Troops near the furnace wrongfully hanged one of the few residents. Charley Lloyd, a farmer working the land in what

City Contained By:

• Calhoun County
• Alabama
• United States of America

City Contains:

• St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
• Grace Episcopal Church
• Anniston Cotton Manufacturing Company
• Anniston Transfer Company
• Bagley-Cater Building
• Bank of Anniston
• Calhoun County Courthouse
• Henry Burt Glover House
• Richard P. Huger House
• Kilby House
• Kress Building
• Montgomery Ward-Alabama Power Company Building
• Mount Zion Baptist Church
• Noble-McCaa-Butler House
• Nonnenmacher Bakery
• Nonnenmacher House
• Oak Tree Cottage
• Parker Memorial Baptist Church
• Peerless Saloon
• Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
• Security Bank Building
• Lansing T. Smith House
• Temple Beth-El
• Union Depot and Freight House
• Wikle Drug Company
• Caldwell Building
• Lyric Theatre
• Parker-Reynolds House
• Crowan Cottage
• Hillside Cemetery
• Tyler Hill Residential Historic District
• Glen Addie Volunteer Hose Company Fire Hall
• Glenwood Terrace Residential Historic District
• Samuel Noble Monument
• Anniston

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 116.549464965 km squared

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