LATEST NEWS

A former Alabama high school guidance counselor was sentenced Monday for having sexual contact with a student, court records showed. Jessica B. Herb, 40, who was a guidance counselor at Asheville High School in St. Clair County during the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to the offense last week.

The Well House nonprofit is focusing on offering more therapy services for human trafficking survivors in St. Clair County. A new facility is under construction, creating more space for expanded mental health services.

It was just time, she said.

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - A nonprofit in St. Clair County is laying the foundation to better help survivors of human trafficking. “Imagine that you have been through the most horrific things imaginable, quite frankly, ever since childhood, because just about every survivor of human trafficking that comes to the WellHouse, they were first victimized as children,” says Carolyn Potter, who serves as the CEO of The WellHouse, which houses and treats survivors of human trafficking.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama will hold the 2023 Revvin’ 4 Research charity motorcycle ride on Sunday, Sept. 24.

Don't miss the high school fooball games happening in Saint Clair County, Alabama this week. Details on how to watch all of the gridiron action can be located below. Follow High School Football this season on the NFHS Network! Keep tabs on your family or alma mater and tune in!

A St. Clair County judge has continued a plea hearing for Marcus Spanevelo until Jan. 10, 2024. A trial date has also been set for Jan. 29, 2024. St. Clair County's district attorney has filed an abuse of a corpse charge against Marcus Spanevelo, linked to ex-girlfriend Cassie Carli. Lyle...

ODENVILLE — Rebecca Hodges didn’t have to travel far for some homespun shopping fun on Saturday. She came from Springville, just a few miles up the road from the St. Clair County Arena, where a shopping frenzy called The Rustik Bucket was under way. Thank you for reading!

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) — The ex-boyfriend of a Florida woman, whose body was discovered in St. Clair County, will not enter a plea in Alabama until 2024. Marcus Spanevelo’s plea hearing was continued until January 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. in Pell City, Alabama. Spanevelo was...

The man charged with abusing the corpse of a woman found buried in a Springville barn will return to a St. Clair County courtroom in January. Thirty-five-year-old Marcus Spanevelo was on the docket for Circuit Judge Phil Seay Monday, but the case has been continued to Jan. 10, 2024.

Several men have been charged recently with an assortment of drug-related crimes. St. Clair County deputies arrested a Pell City man Sept. 7, charging him with possession of a controlled substance and possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia.

It’s often said there’s a good time with a good cause, and this weekend brings such a time back to St. Clair County. Saturday is when the St. Clair County Relay for Life takes over the St. Clair County Arena in Odenville, with all kinds of new twists and ways to support The American Cancer Society.

A former St. Clair County school counselor will spend 18 months in Julia Tutwiler Prison for charges of engaging in sex acts with two students. Jessi Herb, 40, was initially charged with the offenses in January while she was employed as a counselor for Ashville High School. Thank you for...

SPRINGVILLE — Police Chief Wayne Walton told the mayor and council Wednesday that he hopes to have a St. Clair County Law Enforcement Memorial erected in the Big Springs Park. “I think it will be a great asset to the city,” Walton said.

On April 14, 2023, Alabama Power Company (Alabama Power) filed a Notice of Intent (NOI) for the proposed 1,600-megawatt Chandler Mountain Pumped Storage Project. The project would have been located on Little Canoe Creek East and Chandler Mountain in Etowah and St. Clair Counties, near the town of Steele, Alabama. On August 17, 2023, Alabama Power filed a notice of withdrawal of the NOI for the above-referenced project.

Pell City’s Animal Control will need more money in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 to keep providing the services it does under contract for nine cities and St. Clair County. That money will come from a rate increase it's instituting: an additional 12 percent for the cities, and...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ala. — Deputies in St. Clair County are providing extra security to St. Clair County High School Friday in response to rumors of threats made to the school. The county's Board of Education Office was made aware of the rumors of threats about a possible firearm...

Her first encounter with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System came in the sixth grade. But Lee Ann Clark is still just as close to the programs she fell in love with when she met St. Clair County 4-H Agent Louise Littlejohn that year.

An early morning alert of a possible threat of violence at St. Clair County High School put law enforcement and school system officials into quick action Friday. St. Clair County Schools Superintendent Justin Burns said he woke up Friday morning to a text regarding the possible threat, and the system put its response plan into immediate action.

Where you start, that’s up to you. But a visit to the yearly Rustik Bucket Vintage Market this weekend will likely leave you wondering where to begin. The gathering of collectors and creators with their “must have” merchandise, from food to furniture, opens at 9 a.m. today. The setting for the occasion is the St. Clair County Arena in Odenville, 1050 Blair Farm Road, where plenty of indoor and outdoor space awaits for taking in the experience.