Willie Welch, a longtime timberman and a former mayor of Grove Hill, died Jan. 2 at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital. Welch, 76, had been ill for months. Welch owned and operated Welch Timber Company, ...

Clarke County residents will vote in four countywide and four district races in 2026. Incumbent Republican Sheriff DeWayne Smith has announced he is running for re-election after being appointed by ...

William and Vincent Colvin, students of Southern Karate Academy in Thomasville under the teaching of Sensei Neil Ballard, competed in the Mississippi Karate Association and the ProMac Karate Circuit ...

The Clarke County Kingdom Builders, a local nonprofit ministry dedicated to improving lives by building residential wheelchair ramps for those in need, are entering 2026 after a recordsetting year of ...

The following deeds and licenses were recorded by the Clarke County Probate Office: Marriage License Dec. 29 – Jan. 2 Henry Floyd Hunsinger to Yolonda Leighann Hester Matthew Sterling Phillips to ...

A Grove Hill man was found dead at his home on New Year’s Day and no foul play is suspected, authorities said. The body of James Parnell, 75, was discovered at his residence on North Jackson Street ...

Peggy and I did not plan to be where we were this Christmas, any more than Joseph and Mary planned to be in Bethlehem on that first Christmas. This was our 62nd Christmas together as husband and wife.

The proposed West Alabama Corridor, a proposed four-lane highway from Thomasville northward to Moundville, got a major boost last week when the Alabama Department of Finance confirmed the issuance of ...

A 17-year-old male from Pine Hill has been charged with murder following a shooting that killed a Pine Hill man on Sept. 6, according to Pine Hill Police Chief Nakisha Gailes. Quatel Blount, 33, died ...

David Demetrius “Meechie” Taylor was convicted of capital murder by a Clarke County jury for his role in an intentional killing during a 2021 robbery in Jackson, according to the First Judicial ...

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Glass photographic plates were found in the walls of an old building that was torn down in the middle of Grove Hill in 1970. The plates were likely taken by John Morrow, a photographer who had a ...