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Madison County Schools has announced that Sparkman High School and Buckhorn High School clusters will dismiss at 1 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday to allow parents and teachers to attend graduations that will begin at 3 p.m. at the Von Braun Center.

Unless otherwise noted, Huntsville police reported the following incidents Saturday and Sunday. In items with incomplete addresses, police withheld the information.

Police say a man is in critical condition after he shot into a home on Patton Road and then had a wreck Sunday night.

A man is in jail after police say he robbed four people and then ran from police Monday morning.

U.S. 431 over Monte Sano reopened at about 6:30 a.m. after being shut down due to a wreck that happened that just before 2:30 a.m. Monday morning.

The 38-year-old victim told officers she heard one shot fired and then discovered that a bullet had struck her home in the 2700 block of Tolen Street.

The good news is warmth will be restored beginning Monday, along with sunshine in the afternoon, the National Weather Service forecasts.

More than 200 teams from across the world traveled to Memphis for what USA Today calls the best barbecue challenge in the nation.
Big Bob Gibson, led by Chris Lilly, previously won in 2000, 2003 and 2011. The team also took the top prize for best pork shoulder over finalists Red Hot Smokers out of Olive Branch, Miss., and Boarhouse Smokers out of Bartlett, Tenn.

Carl Tate, World War II tail gunner in a B-24, 43-year director of music at Flint River Baptist Church, county Hall of Fame basketball player and indelible influence on family and friends, died at 93 on Jan. 7, 2013.

The 25-year-old female victim told officers she was driving on Mastin Lake Road near Argyle Road when an unknown person shot into her 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix.