2023-08-17
Local Football Teams
Schools have resumed classes and local football teams are readying for the first games of the season.
Driver dies when dump truck rolls into pond at PCA
A Pine Hill man died in an accident on PCA mill property in Jackson Monday morning. Jackson Police Department officers responded to an industrial accident at PCA at approximately 7:45 a.m. Deputy Chief Jason Thomas was the first on the scene and called for investigators. A large dump truck had overturned into a sediment pond and the driver was trapped […]
Local artist Bush paints official portrait of Chief Justice Cobb
Johnna Bush continues to make the citizens of Clarke County proud. She is a well known, local artist who has been commissioned to create a legacy painting of Sue Bell Cobb, the first female Chief Justice of the State of Alabama’s Supreme Court. Cobb graduated from the University of Alabama twice, first with a degree in history and three years […]
Jackson to serve 5 years in reckless murder case
There was a courthouse full of jurors for a criminal jury term of Clarke County Circuit Court in Grove Hill Monday but they were soon released as all cases scheduled were either settled or continued. The reckless murder trial of Ladarius Jackson was expected this week but Jackson instead entered a guilty plea Monday and was sentenced to 20 years, […]
Clarke deputy breaks ankle in scuffle on Family Circle
A scuffle with an individual attempting to be subdued and taken into custody resulted in a Clarke County deputy falling and breaking his ankle Saturday afternoon in the Family Circle/Washington Circle neighborhood near Gainestown. Lawmen were called to a residence on Family Circle where a female juvenile and her boyfriend were fighting and “tearing up the home,” according to reports. […]
It is as hot as it feels!
It has been hot…real hot. Sunday and Monday, the actual temperature was recorded at 104 and 105 in some local places. The heat continues this week and coupled with the humidity, temperatures can feel several degrees hotter as the above chart from the National Weather Service shows. The heat wave has been intense and prolonged and extends over a large […]
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Annual Prayer Breakfast plans announced
Elder Georgia Nash Jackson, pastor of Amazing Grace Deliverance Church in Thomasville, welcomes all to join their faith family at their Annual Prayer Breakfast. The gathering will be Saturday, Aug. 26 at 9 a.m. Guest speaker will be Min. Valerie Waters.
Little Sunflower Missionary Baptist to host revival
The members of Little Sunflower Missionary Baptist Church in Sunflower, invite all to join them in worship at a revival service and annual homecoming celebration. The revival will be Wednesday through Friday, Aug. 30-31 and Sept. 1, at 7 nightly. The annual homecoming celebration will be Sunday, Sept. 3 at 2 p.m. Speaker for both events will be the Rev. […]
