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Bank Street’s monthly block party featuring street musicians, artisans and family friendly entertainment will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

ATHENS — A bronze bell dating to 1871 that was part of the former Limestone County Courthouse built in 1867 could be displayed on the courthouse grounds.

Doctors in Decatur and Huntsville were charged with participating in a bribery and kickback scheme, and additional charges were filed against state Rep. Ed Henry in a federal indictment filed last week.

Phyllis Whittle said she learned her lesson a few years ago when her air conditioning unit quit cooling her Southeast Decatur home in the middle of the summer.

Decatur officials, after not receiving a bid at Tuesday’s bid opening for a dog park, can now build it the way they choose at Wilson Morgan Park — as long as they keep the price down.

HOLLYWOOD — A businessman says that he's assembled a group of nuclear engineering and construction firms to finish building an idled nuclear plant in Jackson County in the next five to six years.

Arrests

Michael Douglas sat silent for almost 30 minutes Tuesday as a representative with the Alabama Association of School Boards delivered the results of his first evaluation as superintendent of Decatur City Schools.

Authorities are searching for a Decatur work release inmate who left his assigned job site in Athens.

A tractor-trailer spilled 3,000 gallons of a chemical on the 1000 block of Cedar Lake Road this afternoon, according to Decatur police.