Franklin County

Gov. Robert Bentley announced recently that Alabama’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted June unemployment rate is 6.1 percent. Franklin County’s unempl...

Lauren Terry, 16, attended Girls State in Tuscaloosa the week of June 8 as a representative from Hatton High School. She ran for Commissioner of Agric...

Russellville’s Waste Water Treatment Plant now bears the name of someone important to its history. Thursday the plant was dedicated and renamed in hon...

RCS Engineering members were special guests at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Space Exploration Celebration Friday.

Three airmen from this area have recently graduated from basic military training. Air Force Airman John M. Sheffield, Air Force Airman Kyle H. Fuller ...

These students were awarded $500 scholarships from the Burleson Lodge No. 143. From left to right, Seth Brewer, Hannah Kent from Vina High School, Mor...

Summer is a time for students and teachers to take a break from the rigors of the curriculum and the daily grind of the classroom. It is a chance to r...

A quick blaze Saturday morning meant a total loss of Rhonda’s Pink Panda Thrift Store, 515 St. Clair St., behind Foodland in Russellville. Firefighter...

Sheetrock dust filled the air as rookie firefighters used a Denver tool to smash a hole in the wall between apartments 3 and 4 and create a way of esc...

An electric wall heater caused severe fire damage in a local apartment last week, and the Russellville Fire Department is urging the public to take ac...