Stevenson, AL

DECHERD, TN (WSMV) - The city attorney of Decherd told News4 that the police chief has officially submitted his resignation following a series of recent allegations against him. The city attorney confirmed that he will assist the city with the transition and continue to help the assistant chief until August...

UPDATE: The city attorney in Decherd tells FOX 17 News Police Chief Ross Peterson has turned in his resignation. The resignation comes after a sexual harassment complaint against Peterson came to surface this week, raising more questions in the department's hiring process. Last month, a former Decherd officer put the...

Covid-19 is spreading rapidly at the Marion County Jail. Twenty-eight inmates tested positive on Monday. It's been 15 months since they have had a case. "A lot of people had just kind of thought that that part of our life had gone on,” Marion County Sheriff Ronnie “Bo” Burnett told Channel 3.

RAINSVILLE, Ala.-- Mayor Rodger Lingerfelt announced at the June 7 meeting that the Rainsville City Council had reached an agreement between the City and The Waterworks, Sewer, and Gas Board of the Town of Section (WWSGBS) to take over billing sewer customers for the City of Rainsville. Southern Torch has...

MARION COUNTY, Tn. — You’ve probably passed it dozens of times on your way toward Nashville. But you might not know about the hidden gems within its waters. On this month’s Scenic City Adventures, Eric Benninghoff explores the Nickajack Lake, and paddles to the historic bat cave. The lake, which...

LAWRENCE, Patricia “Trish” Ashley, age 40, of Estill Springs, Tennessee, departed this life suddenly on Friday, July 16, 2021, at her residence. Mrs. Lawrence was born in Winchester, Tennessee, on Jan. 30, 1981. She was employed at the Citizens Tri-County Bank in Decherd, as a mortgage underwriter. She was previously employed at other area banks before Citizens Tri-County Bank. Mrs. Lawrence was the First Lady and Mother of the Church at Outreach of Jesus Christ Ministry in the Winchester Springs Community. She loved her Lord and Savior. She served in “every aspect” of the church’s ministry. She was involved with the Theater Ministry, a food mom, secretary and the list goes on and on. She enjoyed gardening, flowers, birds, scrapbooking, cooking and canning. One of her favorite enjoyments was everything Disney. She had even started making plans for another trip to Disney World last week. She will be greatly missed by her church family, friends and most of all by her immediate family and all who knew her. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Robert and Gertrude King; maternal grandfather, James Ashley; and great-grandmother, Mabel Ashley. She is survived by her husband, Pastor Dusty Lawrence of Estill Springs; daughters, Kiauna Lawrence and Karalee Dale Lawrence of Estill Springs; mother, Robyn Ashley of Decherd; father, Eddie Wayne King and wife, Lynda of Estill Springs; sister, Miranda Dotson and husband, Joshua of Hillsboro, Tennessee; brother, Chris Evans and wife Janie of Sherwood, Tennessee; niece, Abigail Dotson; mother and father-in-law, Carol and Dale Lawrence of Estill Springs; maternal grandparents, R.L. and Catherine Miller of Decherd; nieces, Paige Rollins and Johanna Lawrence; and one God child, Savannah Hodge. Visitation with the family was held on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, from 5-8 p.m. at the Outreach of Jesus Christ Ministry Church in the Winchester Springs Community. Services will be conducted on Thursday, July 22, 2021, at 2 p.m. at the Outreach of Jesus Christ Ministry Church with Pastor Anthony Wynn officiating. Interment will follow in the Cowan Montgomery Cemetery.

Recently, the family and friends of Ophelia Lawson Parson celebrated her upcoming 90th birthday. Ophelia Parson was born and raised in Flat Branch community in Tracy City. She was the third-born child of 15 children of Alfred and Mildred Lawson and is the oldest of 10 children still living. She attended elementary school in Flat Branch and graduated from Grundy County High School in 1950. She then attended nursing school at Baroness Erlanger in Chattanooga and received her capping. She worked at Sewanee Hospital.

It was a very busy Friday for a number of students at the Southeast Lineman Training Center in Trenton, Georgia. And as the old saying goes, they were able to “kill two birds with one stone!”. Pole climbing. It’s what students do at the Southeast Lineman Training Center. Part of...

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (WAFF) - There was a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday for a new shopping center in Scottsboro. The new development has been in the works for six years. Publix will anchor the Shops of Scottsboro at the corner of Highway 72 and Highway 35. Scottsboro Mayor Jim McCamy said...

A special meeting with the city talking about the future of a Midstate police chief gets abruptly canceled. Tonight, the Decherd police chief is giving his side of the story.

MARION COUNTY, Tenn. — Marion County's sheriff confirms there are 28 cases of COVID-19 at the jail. Sheriff Bo Burnett says the state conducted testing on Monday, July 19. He says none of the patients have had to be hospitalized. “I thought we were over the hump and that everything...

Grundy Countians are asked to be on the lookout for a wanted man. Last weekend the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office sent out a BOLO alert to Grundy County residents for Paul David James. James is the suspect in two incidents over the weekend. Two warrants have been issued for his arrest for burglary and criminal trespass.

Imagine celebrating your birthday down the jersey shore and ending up with a bird hitching a ride on your face while on an amusement park ride. Kiley Holman, 13, and Georgia Reed, 14, both from PA, were at Morey's Piers in Wildwood while on vacation, celebrating George’s birthday. They both decided to ride the slingshot, which if you are unfamiliar, is where you are strapped in a ‘canon ball’ where “spring power and steel aircraft cables send you straight up into the air”, according to Morey’s website. “This thing is about to launch you and your pal to speeds over 75 MPH.”