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Marion News
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- Deadline nears for ASU awards
Tuesday is the deadline to nominate Alabama State alums for the newly established Spirit of Marion and Spirit of Tulibody awards.
- No eyewitnesses heard in civil rights slaying
A district attorney's summary of grand jury testimony shows the panel issued a murder indictment without hearing from any eyewitnesses to the shooting death of a black man by an Alabama state trooper during a ...
- Planning For The Future / Afghan teen inspires treaty on cluster bombs
An Afghan teenager who lost both legs in a cluster bomb explosion helped persuade his country to change its stance and join nearly 100 nations in signing a treaty Wednesday banning the disputed weapons.
- Ala. county passes Obama holiday
Marion, Ala. - - In central Alabama's Perry County, government workers already get a day off for President's Day, Martin Luther King Day and Veterans Day.
- Ala. county sets a Barack Obama Daya as new holiday
MARION, Ala. - A small central Alabama county where Barack Obama received more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect. The Perry County ...
- Drug task force has busy times ahead
The Fourth Judicial Circuit Drug Task force is on the move in Selma and Dallas County.
- Perry County jury hands down conviction
The jury returned the verdict earlier this week. Clark, who worked as manager of the Jameson Inn in Selma when the incident occurred in September 2006, faces a mandatory 10-year sentence.
- Firefighter, Two Others arrested for Arson
Three people, including a volunteer firefighter, have been booked on arson charges for setting fires in Perry County.
- CALENDAR: Around town
Published: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 12:42 a.m. THURSDAY ARTS Alabama Symphony Orchestra: 7 p.m., featuring second violinist Yuriko Yasuda, Alumnae ...
- Marion inmates held in county jail
Three Marion inmates remain housed in the Dallas County Jail awaiting transport to Marion, and nobody seems to know why.
- Continue reading "Voters in Marion line up to cast their ballots"
About 40 voters stretched in a line outside a former National Guard Armory in Marion before polls opened at 7 a.m. today waiting to cast their ballots.
- Bataan POW honored for valor
MARION -- Bert Bank, a 94-year-old survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March, saw himself as a young man in his Army uniform Friday morning and couldn't resist a big smile.
- 72-year-old military veteran inducted into Alabama Military Hall of Honor
Published: Friday, October 31, 2008 at 4:57 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 31, 2008 at 4:57 p.m. MARION In a life already filled with accomplishments, Tuscaloosa icon Bert Bank said one of his proudest ...
- An elegiac vision of time and place
William Christenberry locates his photographs at the intersection of simplicity and profundity.
- Missing woman's body identified
MARION -- Authorities say a body found near a rural intersection in Perry County is that of Virginia Colee, an 85-year-old Selma woman missing more than five weeks.
- McCain Helped Trooper Who Shot Marcher
In 1991, John McCain wrote a letter on behalf of former Alabama state trooper James B. Fowler, who has been charged with the 1965 murder of black civil rights protester Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Ala., ...
- Drug prosecution unit waits on grant
The drug prosecution unit covering the largest geographical circuit in the state is awaiting word on approval for a grant to help with funding.
- 600 to be in jury pool for case from 1965
MARION -- A jury pool four times the normal size will be called for the trial of a former state trooper charged with murder in the 1965 shooting of a black man at a civil rights protest, a judge said Friday.
Marion Classifieds
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City DescriptionMarion is the county seat of Perry County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 3,511. First called Muckle Ridge, the city was renamed after a hero of the American Revolution, Francis Marion.
Marion has been called The Athens of the South because of the dominating presence of its colleges, of which Judson College and Marion Military Institute remain. Howard College was founded in Marion in 1842, and moved to Birmingham in 1887, later becoming Samford University. A groundbreaking school for African Americans, the Lincoln Normal School, was founded here in 1867. The associated Lincoln Normal University for Teachers moved to Montgomery and became Alabama State University. The high school merged with Marion High School during the federally-ordered desegregation of the 1960s. Civil rights leader Coretta Scott King attended Lincoln Normal School. She was born in the neighboring town of Heiberger.
Marion was not damaged during the American Civil War, although its citizens were active participants. The first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform were designed here by Nicola Marschall, then a teacher at the old Marion Female Seminary.
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