The Alexandria clerk-treasurer’s office may have a replacement after all for Democrat Jill Scott, who plans to step down at the end of the year.

A homeless man is accused of entering a home to steal handguns, tools, cash and jewelry and then returned when the owner was present and inquired about renting the property.

The Daleville Community Schools board voted unanimously and without comment in favor of an agreement to close two troubled online schools for which it is authorized.

The internal strife surrounding the naming of a new pastor at Anderson Zion Baptist Church remains in limbo.

An area around a historical building at 201 N. Harrison St. has been blocked off after a sheet of board blew off a window of the abandoned second floor.

Mounted on the wall of Charles Shumate's den is a 157-pound yellow fin tuna, which he caught in the Gulf of Mexico five years ago, and the head of a 1,300-pound elk, which he shot in Wyoming seven years ago.

A dwindling number of police recruits is cause for concern for some law enforcement agencies in Madison County as an aging workforce, salary restrictions and a job that requires its employees to work nights, weekends and holidays mean fewer and fewer qualified people are applying for jobs.

A note passed between two children and confiscated by a teacher led to a man pleading guilty to three counts of child molestation.

A local green-technology company appears poised to add office space and jobs after being acquired by an international company specializing in battery production technology.

In the aftermath of heavy rains over the weekend and Monday in Madison County, flooding has been reported across the area, according to the Madison County Emergency Management Agency.

It was one of four fire stations constructed in Anderson between 1898 and 1904 to protect local residents.

Discussions are taking place on a possible regional jail facility to serve both Madison and Henry counties.