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ATHENS — Athens State University officials want to have a new president in place by the fall semester of 2019.

With overcast skies, visitors stood outside the Decatur Union Depot Museum on Saturday taking in the trains as they whistled by.

The Decatur area is not unique in having companies that expect to suffer from escalating tariffs, but one company expects to come out a winner.

MOULTON — It could be more than a month before things return to normal following a Monday fire at the Lawrence County Courthouse.

Decatur's Planning Department and Planning Commission want to revise the city’s aging zoning and land-use codes, starting with the undeveloped area in Decatur’s annexed properties in Limestone County.

Starting Monday, a contractor will begin a series of culvert replacements across Spring Avenue Southwest that will impact traffic for up to two months.

ATHENS — An 8-year-old child pulled from a community swimming pool Wednesday has died, according to his obituary released by Limestone Chapel Funeral Home.

A Decatur man was shot to death at an apartment complex on Eighth Street Southwest in Decatur at about 10:45 a.m. today, according to a report from The Daily's news partner, WAFF-48. No other information was immediately available.

ATHENS — Two people have been arrested in connection with a theft from a mini-storage business in Elkmont, according to the Limestone County Sheriff's Office.

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