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The rain is expected by sunset and should cover the whole Tennessee Valley. The rain should spread out overnight as the low hits the upper 50s. No severe weather is expected at this time, but any storms that develop come have strong winds.

The department states S & T Thrift Store on Alabama 99 was burglarized on April 12 and again on April 20. The store reported video games, cameras knives and charge had been stolen. The sheriff's department has also been investigating an April 20 burglary at Christo's Delight at Salem, in which change was also stolen.

Butler High School students in John Scianimancio's math class took notes from a guest teacher this week.

Jets from several NATO countries were scrambled Wednesday afternoon after a pair of Russian bomber planes approached their airspace over the North Sea.

With joy, the county said goodbye to the 26-year-old machinery and jumped from "the first grade to a master's degree in technology" to use County Commission Chairman Dale Strong's words.

Citing a need for fostering a better public trust, the Madison County Commission on Wednesday set a policy to no longer accept cash for private work.

Madison County District 4 Commissioner Phil Vandiver has said the intersection was becoming more prone to wrecks and motorists were regularly taking chances to cross the highway because the opportunities to cross were so narrow.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said today in a forecast that the potential exists for a "significant multi-day event" with "strong tornadoes." The threat is expected to start Saturday in the Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas and move east.

Agents arrested Perry T. Drake, 44, and Gerald Donald Green, 26, both of Huntsville.

A total of 15 students around the state will receive corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarships.