WINSTON COUNTY - Brett Rodgers, known most recently as school resource officer for Addison Schools as well as officer for the town of Addison, has been welcomed onboard by newly appointed sheriff Horace Moore as chief deputy of the sheriff’s office.

HALEYVILLE - A spending bill signed by President Donald Trump Dec. 20, includes a section updating the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, raising the national tobacco purchasing age from 18 (previously 19 in Alabama) to 21.

HALEYVILLE - The owner of a pit bull faces a citation and is scheduled to be in Haleyville Municipal Court in February after her dog attacked a neighbor, causing serious injuries to the facial area.

BIRMINGHAM - State House Rep. Tracy Estes, R-Winfield, was recently presented with the Legislative Award, as chosen annually by officials with the Alabama Association of School Boards (AASB).

MONTGOMERY - The Alabama State Department of Education has scheduled the destruction of certain special education records for Feb. 28.

WINSTON COUNTY - Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded grants totaling $46.2 million to assist low-income families in Alabama with energy bills. Locally, the Marion-Winston Counties Community Action Committee will receive $699,100.

HALEYVILLE - The Haleyville Fire Department was called out around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 7 ,to a structure fire at 1201 16th Street.

BEAR CREEK - A Bear Creek family is blessed to have each other after coming home on New Year’s Eve ,Tuesday, Dec. 31, to find their home on fire.

ARLEY - A $535,000 project providing high speed internet service to 200 residents in the Sipsey Pines subdivision at Smith Lake is receiving a major boost from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.

WINSTON COUNTY - The Alabama Department of Revenue, in accordance with changes made by the Legislature in Act 2019-446, will work to boost the effectiveness of the Mandatory Liability Insurance (MLI) law to provide a clearer and less punitive path to compliance by vehicle owners.

DOUBLE SPRINGS - Horace Moore, a veteran of law enforcement the past 30 years, was officially sworn into office...

ARLEY - The body of Jimmy Dean Miller, 83, of Arley - who was last seen on Thanksgiving - was discovered on the shore of Smith Lake in the area of County Road 4033.

ADDISON - The Christmas holiday season was destroyed for an Addison family when a 30-year-old man confessed to law enforcement that he shot...

HALEYVILLE - Haleyville City Council Member Jonathan Bennett made a motion near the end of the council’s Dec. 17, meeting to revoke the business license for the Imperial Inn in Haleyville, a motion that was not on the agenda for the meeting.

WINSTON COUNTY - Horace Moore, a veteran not only of the newspaper business but law enforcement, will respectfully replace Tommy Moore as Winston County’s Sheriff next week.

HALEYVILLE - With an increase in the number of calls for ambulance service in Marion and Winston counties, a new type of ambulance is expected to be seen on the streets of Haleyville soon.

DOUBLE SPRINGS - Have you ever seen the “saddest movie ever made?” It is titled “All Mine to Give” (1957) and is based on a novel by Dale Eunson titled, “The Day They Gave the Babies Away” (1946).

WINSTON COUNTY - State legislators have brought long-awaited big news to the Winston County Commission that the Alabama Department of Transportation will be saving the county a large expense by taking over maintenance of Duncan Bridge and a portion of County Road 41.

LIVINGSTON - The University of West Alabama held fall commencement exercises on Saturday, Dec. 14, with President Ken Tucker conferring undergraduate, master and education specialist degrees to students of the colleges of business, education, liberal arts and natural sciences and mathematics and to the school of graduate studies.