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Athens State University trustees approved a 7 percent tuition hike at a Wednesday meeting to take effect fall semester, a move President Bob Glenn said was "the only step we could take."

Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely said his office received a complaint about suspicious activity and possible prostitution there about two months ago. Deputies tried to go in undercover at the time but Blakely said it was closed for a few weeks.

The short film by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission follows a group of NRC staffers who visited the Fukushima Daiichi plant in February.

Johnson was last seen at Crestwood Medical Center at 9 p.m. Monday. Her family says she is a diabetic and has difficulty walking.

The city recently installed hundreds of feet of chain-link fencing to keep people out of a pretty section of park between Huntsville City Hall and the old Central Bank building. The sealed off area includes the Big Spring, Huntsville's original water source.

Decatur High School students made a significant contribution to an international campaign encouraging students to collect jeans for homeless youth in their community.

A bull described as "extremely dangerous" that escaped its fence at Valley Stockyard this afternoon was shot and killed, according to a Decatur Police Department spokesman.

The Madison school district is relocating its pre-K classes to a former daycare center off of Nance Road. It and the Madison County system received three of the 101 grants awarded earlier this month in an expansion of the state's First Class Pre-K Program.

This star nursery is invisible in regular light, but infrared light can travel through the dust to offer a look inside

A Huntsville woman was attacked by three family members Wednesday night.