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This is an opinion column. Lowndes County is a place of haunting beauty, where you can see stars at night and endless loblolly pines by day. It’ll make your heart hurt, if you have one. But now Lowndes, according to the body that continues to call itself the U.S....

BUTLER COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - The Butler County School System announced Monday that it will hold a virtual learning day Friday, April 18, in order to conduct building safety inspections on all its campuses. All Butler County school buildings will be closed, and students and employees will not be required...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Lowndes County Friends of The Civil Rights Movement will host their Tenth Annual Civil Rights Weekend Celebration on April 25 – 27. Initially launched in 2015, the weekend of commemoration is aimed at honoring Lowndes County citizens who were vital to civil rights efforts in the 1960s.

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied the parole petition recently from an inmate serving a life sentence for murder of an elderly woman in Crenshaw County. On March 13, the board voted to deny parole to Ernest Lee McCastle, 66. He is housed at the Fountain Correctional Center, 34 years and five months into a conviction handed down May 6, 1991. McCastle is serving a life sentence for the murder of Mae McGhee.

The Montgomery Humane Society says they are overcrowded with dogs who need a new home. A local high school joined the movement to promote understanding and acceptance of Autism. Attorney Julian McPhillips remembered. Updated: 11 hours ago. Julian McPhillips, a longtime and well known Montgomery attorney has died. Updated: 11...

Delta passengers held overnight at Montgomery Regional Airport after flights diverted. Flights from Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City were both on their way to Atlanta when flight crews had to divert due to inclement weather. Updated: 7 hours ago. A child was injured Saturday night in an accidental shooting,...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 2017, a United Nations official whose job it was to travel the globe investigating the various issues related to extreme poverty – and reporting on various ways that poverty affected the residents of those impoverished areas – stopped in Lowndes County for a tour.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Recently, I served on a panel of judges of a student agricultural research competition during the 133rd Annual Farmers Conference of the Tuskegee University Cooperative Extension Program. Not only did the talent of the Lowndes County youth participants impress me, but I also admired the number of young women who presented their findings.

In The Luverne Journal, coverage of new resources opening to local citizens, programming available to Crenshaw County students and personnel stationed overseas found their place on the front page. Here’s what happened on April 14, 1954. Luverne to Have Library to Open in Near Future. A public library was...

Julian McPhillips, a longtime and well known Montgomery attorney has died. The Montgomery Humane Society says they are overcrowded with dogs who need a new home. A local high school joined the movement to promote understanding and acceptance of Autism. Updated: 11 hours ago. Montgomery County authorities are pleading with...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - A child was injured Saturday night in an accidental shooting, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. Asst. Chief Deputy Wesley Richerson confirmed a 3-year-old was shot in the area of Vista Del Verde Drive in Hope Hull. Richerson said the child is in...

Residents of the Taylor Lakes neighborhood in Montgomery voiced their concerns Monday night. Julian McPhillips, a longtime and well known Montgomery attorney has died. The Montgomery Humane Society says they are overcrowded with dogs who need a new home. Autism Awareness Walk held by local high school. Updated: 8 hours...

It was a picture-perfect weekend weather-wise across central and south Alabama. Sunshine was abundant, with a cloudless sky Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures were certainly cool again early Sunday morning, with lows in the upper 30s to low 40s. However, temperatures rebounded into the mid and upper 70s during the afternoon. Sunday night remains mainly clear and milder, with lows in the low 50s.

Live Well Alabama partnered with the Crenshaw Extension (ACES) recently to organize a pop-up event with activities promoting healthy movement. The Move Alabama Park Pop Up Party, held April 4 at Turner Park, provided free games and activities for children and adults. “For our SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program –...