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Escambia County teacher charged with drug possession after pot found at alternative school by AnnistonStar
Jan 28, 2011 |  0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
A teacher at the Escambia County alternative school was arrested and charged with drug possession Wednesday following a search at the school and Flomaton High School parking lot by drug dogs. Also Wednesday, two students at Escambia County High School in Atmore were held on drug charges af...
Search for new Gadsden State president continues by AnnistonStar
Jan 28, 2011 |  0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
The search for a new Gadsden State Community College president shifts into higher gear next week with search committee elections. Postsecondary Education Chancellor Freida Hill plans to conduct faculty and staff search committee elections beginning at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Gadsden, postsecondary sp...
Moulton grandparents convicted of snatching grandchild from Walmart by AnnistonStar
Jan 27, 2011 |  0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
A Moulton couple faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted Wednesday of interfering with the custody of their grandson. Millard “Jeff” Jeffrey Alston, 47, and his wife, Rebecca Jill Smith Alston, 50, were accused of taking their then 3-year-old grandson from Walmart in Florence ...
$10 million bond set in Selma shooting; melee erupts at Dallas County courthouse by AnnistonStar
Jan 27, 2011 |  0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Ronald Fitts, the suspect in a club shooting that wounded four and killed one, is in the Dallas County Jail under a $10 million bond. On Wednesday, Dallas County District Judge Bob Armstrong levied the bond, which was recommended by the district attorney’s office. Broken down, the bond was ...
Childersburg woman arrested for theft from law firm by AnnistonStar
Jan 27, 2011 |  0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
A former employee of the Talladega law firm Stringer, Montgomery and Montgomery has been arrested on theft of property in the first degree charges. Merry Ann Floyd, 53, of Childersburg was arrested without incident Tuesday afternoon, according to Talladega Police Chief Alan Watson. Read ...
Neighbors call for help after finding two unconscious people in yard by AnnistonStar
Jan 27, 2011 |  0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Two people remain in the neurological intensive care unit today after what police believe was a drug overdose. Neighbors in the 13000 block of Hermosa Drive called 911 after finding two people lying unconscious in the front yard of a home around 1 a.m., authorities said. HEMSI transported th...
Former principal faces sex charges by AnnistonStar
Jan 26, 2011 |  0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Former state Rep. James Thomas, accused of sexually abusing a female student at the school where he was principal, was bound over to a grand jury Tuesday. Wilcox County District Judge Jo Celeste Pettway found sufficient evidence to send the case to the grand jury following a three-hour hea...
Woman slips cuffs, escapes custody in Gadsden Municipal Court by AnnistonStar
Jan 26, 2011 |  1 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
A woman escaped Tuesday afternoon from Gadsden Municipal Court after a judge tacked on five days to her sentence for lying about drug use. .art_main_pic { width: 250px; float: left; clear: left; } Police are looking for Tammi Sauls Morrison, 32, who slipped out of handcuffs and ran ou...
Greene County 76-year-old gets 10 years for drugs, money-laundering conspiracy by AnnistonStar
Jan 24, 2011 |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
A federal judge last week ratified a 10-year prison sentence that prosecutors worked out with a Greene County man who admitted involvement in a drug ring that sold large amounts of cocaine and marijuana throughout Alabama. Benjamin Knox, 76, of Eutaw, was indicted in 2005 along with his t...
Alabama coastline named 1 of 10 most endangered places in the South by AnnistonStar
Jan 21, 2011 |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
The Alabama coastline has been named one of the 10 most endangered places in the South by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Although Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida saw plenty of oil, Alabama’s coastline was the only one singled out for the list, because of this quirk: For its purpos...

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Police: Fake check cashed at Anniston credit union
by Rachael Brown
rgriffin@annistonstar.com
Jun 19, 2013 | 198 views |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Anniston police were investigating this morning a forged check for more than $1,000 cashed at a local credit union Tuesday afternoon. Anniston police Capt. Allen George said a suspect cashed a check for $1,675 from a physician’s office in Gadsden at the Alabama Teachers Credit Union on U.S. 431. The check was cashed Tuesday between at around 3 p.m., according to a police report. George said the doctor’s office later called the credit union and told them the check was forged. The doctor’s office told police that a check was never written to the suspect, George said, and that the suspect does not work at the office. George said police were reviewing the credit union’s surveillance today. A suspect could be charged with felony second-degree possession of a forged instrument. Staff Writer Rachael Brown: 256-235-3562. On Twitter @RBrown_Star.
Gov. Bentley, Sen. Shelby and President Obama in Tuscaloosa in 2011
Gov. Bentley, Sen. Shelby and President Obama in Tuscaloosa in 2011
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President Obama and Gov. Bentley in Tuscaloosa in 2011
President Obama and Gov. Bentley in Tuscaloosa in 2011
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The Piedmont Journal - 06/19/13
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Teddy Grogan shows a photo of him 33 years ago. The photo is hanging on a wall at the Masonic Lodge 97 in Piedmont. Photo: Anita Kilgore/The Jacksonville News
Teddy Grogan shows a photo of him 33 years ago. The photo is hanging on a wall at the Masonic Lodge 97 in Piedmont. Photo: Anita Kilgore/The Jacksonville News
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