Tag: MUSCLE SHOALS

The United States Navy, under the leadership of Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan, cut the ribbon on a new defense industrial facility in Cherokee on Friday.

While we are appalled at the fraud in D.C. and Minnesota, we often fail to realize that such massive corruption always starts on a small scale. When bypassed or ignored, corruption spreads like kudzu.

Muscle Shoals city clerk Brittany Walker has been placed on leave following an unfavorable audit of the City’s finances.

The recent local elections were the first I’ve covered in this state, and some of the results give glimmers of hope. There is much that is wonderful about Alabama, but there is also corruption and poor governance that needs to be addressed at all levels.

Ridge Malone Watkins, 35, is charged with aggravated child abuse in connection with the alleged abuse of his girlfriend’s two-year-old son.

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in favor of the city of Muscle Shoals in a lawsuit brought by residents seeking damages over claims of negligence after heavy rainfall in 2019 flooded their homes.

TUSCUMBIA—The Colbert County Republican Club's December meeting featured State Reps. Kerry "Bubba" Underwood (R-Tuscumbia) and Ben Harrison (R-Elkmont), who discussed the proposed 2025 legislative agenda on their February return to Montgomery.

Here is a sprinkling of some of the events around the Tennessee Valley over the next week.

A surgeon in Florida removed an Alabama man’s liver instead of his spleen, killing him, according to personal injury lawyers.

A joint undercover sting operation geared toward addressing human trafficking in the Jackson, Tenn. area has resulted in the arrest of 13 individuals on human trafficking charges, one of them from Muscle Shoals.

Former Colbert County Commissioner David Black died Saturday in the Shoals.

An almost unbelievable week for The Blind Boys of Alabama climaxed Sunday when the 80-year-old gospel group won a Grammy Award in the "Best Roots Gospel Album" category for their 2023 LP release "Echoes of the South."

Can you imagine what Muscle Shoals would look like now if the government chose not to step in the way of free enterprise and daring ideas, but instead decided to encourage them?

Singer-songwriter and Muscle Shoals music producer Walt Aldridge is the mind behind many popular hits, including Conway Twitty’s “She’s Got a Single Thing in Mind” (1989) and “ Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde” (2000) by Travis Tritt.

Lead singer Mark Kelly of the Burnells spoke to 1819 News about his band's history, influences and the new album they just recorded in Muscle Shoals, "Turn to Now."

By Craig Monger  During an appearance on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show,” Rep. Andrew Sorrel of Muscle Shoals gave...