Decatur, AL, Morgan County, AL | featured news

Before she and two others were shot dead near Ardmore on Sunday, Debra Ann Rivera twice had asked a judge to order her ex-husband to surrender his guns because of alleged abuse.

A discrepancy between a resolution and the city’s contract on lodging tax revenues with the Decatur-Morgan County Convention and Visitors Bureau led to an overpayment of $440,000 to the CVB over a four-year period, the city’s CFO said.

• CMS John and Brenda Perry, 2011

MOULTON — A longtime Lawrence County school system employee is going to Hatton High as principal, while head girls basketball coaches for the system’s two largest schools could be named during the board’s July 17 meeting.

Fireworks are a staple to most Fourth of July celebrations, and the Spirit of America is no exception.

The late Barrett C. Shelton Sr., together with a handful of Decatur businessmen, started the Spirit of America Festival in 1967.

Few people have awards named after them, so Audie Murphy, honored by the Spirit of America’s award given in his name, is one of an elite cadre. But then, he always was.

Bill Dukes was known for years as Decatur’s most popular man, until he died Dec. 18, 2014, after a three-year battle with Parkinson’s disease.

• Jimmy Smith, 2015