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Arab police have charged a man with child abusing involving an infant.

Fallen officers of Madison County were remembered this evening during the Annual Peace Officers Memorial on the south side of the historic Courthouse Square downtown.

A police investigator said Brandon Moore admitted to a friend he'd been warned about playing with the gun the day of the shooting.

One person is dead and two suffer injuries following a car wreck on Gurley Pike Tuesday afternoon.

She and 28 other retirees can expect $200 a month for the next two years to supplement the cost of buying additional insurance. That was $50 more than initially proposed.
Meanwhile, one commissioner appears ready to ditch the current insurance system to return to the self-insured program the county historically offered, thus assuring retirees get what was promised to them.

Seven people in DeKalb County were arrested in connection with the synthetic drug raid and face drug and possession charges. Four arrests were made in Madison County.

Holly Whitt, the school's librarian and technology integrator mentor, will receive a year's worth of professional development opportunities. Whitt will also receive an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C., to participate in a two-day digital education summit.

U.S. District Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala on Tuesday added four more community letters to the court file in Huntsville's desegregation dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice. She had added a fifth late last week.

Fundraisers 'leverage experiences' to raise money for good causes

The body of Robin Penton's wife, Colleen Penton, was found on the floor of the couple's bedroom with a bouquet of plastic flowers and a ceramic angel figurine on top of her, police said.