Arab, Alabama

• Marshall County cops racing for a cure
  

  Law enforcement in Marshall County will be speeding this weekend but not to catch bad guys.

• Arab, Cullman County has highest sales tax rate in USA
  

  A national tax solutions company cites in it's latest report that a portion of the city of Arab has the highest sales tax rate in the entire country at 12-percent. This portion of Arab includes about 20 parcels of land and 78 acres.

• Wildcats revise gridiron schedule
  

  The Guntersville football program has released a revised schedule for the 2010 season.

• Arab Bluegrass venue to reopen
  

  A former bluegrass musical landmark in Marshall county plans to reopen its doors in March.

• GOP sees sweep in Marshall with Mitchem retirement
  

  Sen. Hinton Mitchem, D-Union Grove, a 30-plus year veteran of the Alabama Legislature, cited family reasons Monday in announcing he won't seek reelection.

• International Blockbuster Exhibition of Arabian Art Opens In May
  

  LEXINGTON, KY The largest and most comprehensive collection of exotic Near Eastern and Arabian equine art and artifacts ever assembled will soon be on view when A Gift from the Desert: The Art, History and Culture of the Arabian Horse is presented May 29-October 15 in the Kentucky Horse Park's International Museum of the Horse - a Smithsonian ...

• RSVP tax site hours
  

  The Marshall County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program will have IRS trained volunteers at the following locations to prepare returns and file returns electronically: * Albertville Rec Center: Monday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 2p.m. * Arab Rec Center: Tuesday from 1 to 6 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. * Boaz Old Water Board: Monday and ...

• After going wet, Arab sees drop in alcohol crimes
  

  When the City of Arab voted to sell alcohol in 2008, the city's police chief, Mike Blackwood, started doing a little research.

• Passerby finds overturned car, driver dead
  

  A single-vehicle wreck killed an Arab man Friday, Morgan County Coroner Russ Beard said.

• Arab man killed in single-vehicle accident in Morgan County
  

  LACEY'S SPRING, AL -- A 24-year-old man was killed early today when he crashed his SUV a few miles south of Lacey's Spring.

• The nation's fundamental partisan divide
  

  There is a problem: 47 million Americans who don't have any health care. Two major problems with that statement, 47 million...who is in that group? And how did it get so big? And what would it take to get them out of that group without implementing Nobama healthcare? What are the other 300 million doing that these 47 million aren't doing? Don't ...

• Kids are eating themselves to death
  

  Are our kids snacking themselves to death? Medical researchers sure think so. A study at the University of North Carolina now reports that more than 27% of the daily calories kids are consuming come from snacks.

• Authorities investigate finding of a dead horse outside Arab
  

  Arab and Cullman County authorities are investigating the discovery of a dead horse that could be a case of animal cruelty.

• On behalf of all parents'
  

  After asking a judge if she could speak, a woman reportedly started punching a man who was sentenced for driving under the influence during a wreck involving her daughter.

• Morgan County home destroyed by fire
  

  Just before 6:00 a.m. Friday a fire broke out at a home off Ball Diamond Road in the Ryan Community just west of Arab.

• Arab Police Department gear up for pursuit for the cure
  

  This year a cop car is going to burn some rubber to raise money to find a cure for cancer.

• 3 indicted for murder
  

  A man whose girlfriend was killed when he crashed his all-terrain vehicle, a wife who shot her husband of two months, and a woman who shot her lover have been formally charged with murder.

• Legislative bill could help restrict ingredients to make meth
  

  Representative Frank McDaniel is sponsoring a bill that is making it's way through the state legislature which could put a big damper for those who are making methamphetamine.

• Arab company's product hits center stage
  

  A Marshall County company is gaining national notoriety. The Arab-based company helped make this year's Super Bowl broadcasters stage.

City Description

Arab (pronounced /ˈɛəræb/, locally [ˈeɪræəb]) is a city in Marshall County, Alabama in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, located ten miles from Guntersville Lake and Guntersville Dam, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 7,174. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 7,498. The name of the town was an unintentional misspelling by the US Postal Service, in 1882, of the city's intended name, taken from Arad Thompson, the son of the town founder and first postmaster Stephen Tuttle Thompson. Two other proper names for the town were sent to the US Postal Service for consideration: "Ink" and "Bird." Arab was incorporated 1892. Arab is located on top of Brindlee Mountain at 34°19′40″N 86°29′55″W / 34.32778°N 86.49861°W / 34.32778; -86.49861 (34.327863, -86.498613). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.9 square miles (33 km), of which 12.8 square miles (33 km) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km) (0.2 km²) (0.62%) is water. The town's elevation is 1,100 feet (340 m) above sea level. Electricity service in Arab is

City Contained By:

• Marshall County
• Alabama
• Cullman County
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 33.4108466233 km squared

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