The circuit court clerk's office staff this week noticed out-of-sequence check numbers on the office's accounts. The checks turned out to be bogus checks with the circuit clerk's account number, cashed at a Wells Fargo branch in Lawrenceville, Ga. Read the full story
The Saints John Lodge 931 of the Free and Accepted Masons of Alabama will host a first responders appreciation day cookout for police and sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, emergency medical workers and other first responders Saturday. Read the full story
Twenty-eight-year-old Adrian Wordlow’s body was found on a street in Carrollton with a single gunshot wound to the torso, according to Carroll County Coroner Keith Hancock. Read the full story
At a Thursday morning hearing, a Calhoun County judge pushed back the trial of a man charged in the 2011 death of a Wellborn teacher. Read the full story
The Saints John Lodge 931 of the Free and Accepted Masons of Alabama will host a first responders appreciation day cookout for police and sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, emergency medical workers and other first responders Saturday.
Twenty-eight-year-old Adrian Wordlow’s body was found on a street in Carrollton with a single gunshot wound to the torso, according to Carroll County Coroner Keith Hancock.
At a Thursday morning hearing, a Calhoun County judge pushed back the trial of a man charged in the 2011 death of a Wellborn teacher.
An Anniston man was shot on the porch of his Argyle Place home Monday night, police said Wednesday.
Anniston parishioners learned this weekend of the alleged misuse of more than $190,000 by a bookkeeper at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church.
An Oxford police officer was injured in a crash with a drunk driver Wednesday night, police said.
A teenager was arrested Aug. 22 on a charge of sexual torture, according to Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade.
Three inmates escaped from Calhoun County Jail on Sunday night and were recaptured by Monday morning, Sheriff Matthew Wade said in a news conference Tuesday.
Ohatchee police Sunday were looking for a man they said assaulted an 89-year-old woman and stole her purse as she was entering her church. Police said the woman suffered a head injury and was being treated at a hospital.
A Weaver man was arrested Saturday afternoon in connection with the theft of a running vehicle, Anniston police said.
An Anniston man was arrested on domestic violence charges Monday.
Just after 6 p.m. Thursday a woman reported her live-in boyfriend had sexually abused her at their Oakmont Avenue home, Sgt. Kyle Price said.
Anniston police have charged a man with attempted murder and aggravated assault after a struggle with officers Thursday night in which, the police chief said, the man fired a gun.
Warrants for the arrest of Colby Adam Humphries, 28, Ronnie Dale Norton II, 31, and Johnathan Miquel Brittain, 36, charge the men with conspiracy to commit theft in the first degree.
A collision on Bynum Leatherwood Road on Thursday afternoon left two people dead, according to the Calhoun County coroner.
Two separate reports of stolen handguns were filed with the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office on Monday morning.
A $65,000 piece of equipment taken from road crews installing safety cables on Interstate 20 in Heflin was recovered in Georgia on Monday. A skid steer — a small, rigid-frame, motorized piece of equipment with lift arms — had been stolen during the weekend, according to Heflin officer Danny Turner.
A woman was arrested on Sunday after allegedly entering a Jamback Road home through a window and attacking a couple with a metal pole, according to the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office.
A Choccolocco area man was charged with domestic violence by strangulation on Saturday after a disagreement over his medication, authorities said.
Alabama lawmakers set aside $250,000 in 2014 for an ombudsman who could take female inmates’ complaints directly to the governor. Then-Gov. Robert Bentley never created that office, and spent the money on a different program — a lapse that went largely unnoticed until state auditors uncovered it earlier this year.
More people have come forward to report thefts of brass vases from graves in a Golden Springs cemetery, but Anniston police have no new arrests in the case.
Over the weekend, a man reported his red 2013 Hyundai Elantra stolen from the 5100 block of McClellan Boulevard.
Two Calhoun County men face first-degree burglary charges after being arrested last week by Piedmont police.
Most of the federal inmates held at the Calhoun County Jail were removed earlier this month because of overcrowding and a shortage of corrections officers, the sheriff said Friday.
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