• Area teachers finalists for state honor
Theresa Durboraw, a science teacher at Buckhorn High, and Donna McDaniel, a first-grader teacher at Julian Newman Elementary in Athens, are finalists for Alabama's 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year.

• Charges in death of Marine
Vehicular homicide, DUI warrants issued against suspect, 71

• Creeping along
WATCHING TRAFFIC ON U.S. 31 - Edith Bennich rocked back and forth in her rocking chair Thursday afternoon, watching the traffic out her window in Hartselle go from slow to slower to stop.

• House rejects Griffith's resolution to force direct vote on health care
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a resolution sponsored by Rep. Parker Griffith, R-Huntsville, who had stepped into the middle of the national health care debate.

• Jackson Chamber sets Montgomery trip
SCOTTSBORO - The Greater Jackson County Chamber of Commerce has set its annual citizens trip to Montgomery for April 7-8.

• Mediation over engineer job set for Jackson commission
Members split over hiring J.D. Smith or rehiring Greg Richard

• No sitting down when she retires
Gym manager, city's most senior employee, set to leave

• Police arrest, charge manin shooting death of son
Huntsville police have arrested a man and charged him with the murder of his son.

• 2 hopefuls join Jackson race for sheriff's job
Chuck Phillips, Billy Wilson in contest to replace Dennis Miller

• GOP's Ivey touts job plan at Phoenix
Gubernatorial candidate praises agency's work

• I-65 section to close due to sinkhole
16 miles between Lacon, Decatur will be affected

• Jail pay busting budget
Employees average 11 weeks of overtime at cost of $1.7 million last year

• Red Cross can roll at all hours
Volunteer crews give time to help when disasters hit

• TVA delays decision on fate of Bellefonte
SCOTTSBORO - The Tennessee Valley Authority has announced it will delay until later this year a decision on whether to finish its Bellefonte Nuclear Plant near Scottsboro.