Piedmont, Alabama

City leaders have fired a Piedmont police officer arrested last week on sexual misconduct charges, but officials won't immediately replace him because of financial constraints.

A Piedmont police officer is facing a criminal charge stemming from alleged improper conduct at the Piedmont City Jail.

This area is very proud of our new school. About 400 students in grades 5-8 will roam the hallways of the four brick and red buildings behind the elementary school.

Jamal D. Snell recently graduated from the Army ROTC Leader Development and Assessment Course, also known as 'Operation Warrior Forge,' at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash.

Alabama state troopers say two people were killed and another was injured in a one-vehicle accident in Calhoun County.

During the Dec. 8 Jacksonville City Council meeting, the council: &#8226 Approved a payment of $361,127.21 to the Alabama Department of Transportation to cover Jacksonville's portion of widening and repaving ...

Two people were injured in a wreck between a Ford Ranger pickup truck and an Acura Legend at the intersection of East Second Avenue and East 12th Street this afternoon.

The Alabama Supreme Court last week set execution dates for five death row inmates, including two awaiting execution for murders in Calhoun County, during each of the first five months of 2009.

Two men were injured Friday afternoon when their vehicles were involved in a crash on Alabama Highway at Ga.

Scores from local schools in the quarterfinal round of the Alabama High School Athletic Association playoffs.

Nov. 6--A week before Calhoun County leaders were to vote on a 1-cent sales tax hike to help schools, Oxford Mayor Leon Smith dropped a bomb on them: His city, with $95 million in the bank, also needed a tax ...

The production of goat cheese and goat milk by a local source is coming along on schedule, and now the Piedmont couple responsible for it have earned praise from the American Dairy Goat Association for their ...

Anna Ruth Rogers of Centre, Ala., and Nicholas Ross Pope of Rock Run, Ala., were married at 4 p.m., Saturday, Aug.

The Jacksonville News welcomed new staff member Hannah Rea to the advertising department last week.

PARTY GIRL : An officer dealt with a 23-year-old woman passed out in the back of a car at Collier and Peachtree roads.

A week-long investigation has ended in the arrests of four people, and the discovery of hundreds of pounds of marijuana.

James and Judy Tompkins celebrated 50 years of marriage recently. Mrs. Tompkins is a native of Piedmont; James is a native of Jacksonville.

It's the election season's version of the Sabbath; toil like a dog for six months, and now, finally, it's time to rest.

Historians and professors are apt to wax eloquently about civic virtue and personal responsibility on election days.