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Family says they were ambushed in golf club attack by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
One Wiregrass family claims a quiet Sunday afternoon on the Chattahoochee River turned into a nightmare when about a dozen people wielding golf clubs ambushed them at the Gordon boat landing. “Monsters,” claimed one woman who said she was assaulted by at least two women with golf clubs....
Three Hartselle boys arrested for robbing and beating an 80-year-old man by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  7 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Decatur police arrested an 18-year-old and two 16-year-old's they say robbed and beat an 80-year-old man. Just before midnight Friday, three young men broke into an 80-year-old man's home on Old Moulton Road, police said. The elderly man was sleeping at the time and according to reports, th...
12 arrested at Opp's May Day celebration by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Opp’s annual May Day celebration ended with more than 10 people booked into the Covington County Jail. Sgt. Scotty Ballard of the Alabama Beverage Control Board said in total, nine adults and three juveniles were arrested during the entire two-day celebration – all for alcohol related in...
21-year-old mom charged with abuse of 6-year-old son by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  3 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A Level Plains mother who claimed her 6-year-old son tried to hang himself with a necktie was charged with aggravated child abuse on Monday for allegedly abusing the boy on multiple occasions. Elizabeth “Michelle” Barnes, 21, of Level Plains, was in the Dale County Jail under no bond on...
2 dead in single-engine plane crash in Tuscaloosa by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Two people were killed when a single-engine plane crashed just short of the runway at the Tuscaloosa Regional Airport Monday evening. The crash occurred at 7:29 p.m. as the plane was arriving from the north. It was making its final approach to the airport, said Capt. Loyd Baker of the Tusca...
Sen. Sessions finds Kagan's lack of judicial experience 'troubling' by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's lack of judicial experience is "troubling" and represents "a weakness in her background," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, said Monday. "I just believe if you put somebody on the U.S. Supreme Court, they ought to be deeply steeped in real law practice," sai...
Gadsden woman hurt when car hits porch by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
A woman was injured Friday when a car hit the front porch of her Kentucky Avenue home. The incident happened about 11:05 a.m. when the woman was on the porch. The driver of the car appeared intentionally to go through the grass and up on the porch, according to a police report. R...
Albertville native earns Bronze Star in Iraq by AnnistonStar
May 11, 2010 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
An Albertville native has distinguished himself in combat and was awarded a Bronze Star, with valor, on March 12, for killing an Iraqi insurgent, likely saving the lives of his soldiers, according to an Army report. According to reports, Staff Sgt. Kelly Young, 39, and a graduate of Albe...
Athens woman charged with child endangerment, drug possession by AnnistonStar
May 10, 2010 |  1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
An Athens woman accused of having methamphetamine and pipes to smoke it inside a home where her two children were present has been charged with child endangerment, an official said. Lanoma White Browning, 38, of 200 Sanderfer Road, Apt. 216-A, is charged with chemical endangerment of a chi...
Gandhi's grandson to speak at UNA by AnnistonStar
May 10, 2010 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Arun Gandhi, 76, a former reporter with The Times of India and a grandson of Indian peace activist Mahatma Gandhi, will deliver the spring commencement address Saturday, 10 a.m., at the University  of North Alabama in Florence. The commencement will be held in Flowers Hall. Read the full sto...

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