Anniston City Council and the City School Board agree that resource officers should be hired at the Middle and High Schools, but it could take a while.

A new auto supplier has landed in Alabama, with plans to employ 25 people in Anniston.

Wellborn, AL - A Calhoun County couple is killed in an apparent murder-suicide and their bodies are discovered by one of their 6 children.

Calhoun County officials are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in which they say a 50-year-old Wellborn man shot his wife to death before turning the gun on himself.

America's small cities are losing some of their traditional appeal to upwardly mobile families seeking wholesome neighborhoods, a stable economy and affordable living.

Former Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce executive vice president Larry Sylvester died Friday at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital after sustaining injuries in a bicycle accident Thursday night, the Anniston Star reports.

Five Republicans and one Democrat have qualified to run for the Alabama House District 40 seat vacated by the death of Democratic state Rep.

U.S. District Court Judge Inge P. Johnson today sentenced an Anniston man to 20 years and 4 months in prison for the armed robbery of three Alabama banks in 2007, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley.

In Anniston veterans from across East Alabama gathered for one of the largest Veteran's Day ceremonies in the state.

Law enforcement officers fanned out across Calhoun County Tuesday looking for people wanted for drug related charges and by the end of the day had arrested 50, the Anniston Star reports.

Published: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 3:04 p.m. SUNDAY 11.8 Northeast Alabama Orchid Society meets at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of Anniston Museum of Natural History.

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An Anniston man is scheduled to get his first day in court this afternoon, a day after he was served with 32 grand jury indictments including sex crime charges related to a series of reported rapes over two years, the Anniston Star reports.

Friends, colleagues and family of state Rep. Lea Fite, D-Jacksonville, gathered Thursday in Anniston to mourn the unexpected death of the respected lawmaker.

Anniston, AL - A new report shows an alarming number of weapons and contraband have been found in the hands of some of Calhoun County's most dangerous criminals.