Local News

• Jackson schools welcome windfall from TVA money
Amount is part of fundsredistributed to countiesin Tennessee Valley

• No reason to fear census, officials say
Info confidential; Harrison stressesfunding levels

• School aid has a catch: layoffs
Underachieversface tough stepsif grant accepted

• Strange jabs at AG over task force role
GOP opponent King silent on subjectat club breakfast

• This dog provides - and gets - special treatment
HAZEL GREEN - Wayne Perkins, a funeral director for Berryhill Funeral Home, moved to Hazel Green five years ago from the Washington, D.C., area.

• Airport seeks AirTran backers
Area businesses asked to kick in 10% of savings

• A pioneer who beat the odds
Like a lot of kids growing up in Huntsville in the 1960s, Trish Beckman wanted to be an astronaut.

• Essay award is the real thing
Calhoun student first thought prize was a prank

• Fort Payne man faces drug charges after chase
FORT PAYNE - A DeKalb County man who led police on a chase Thursday from Fort Payne to the top of Sand Mountain near Sylvania has been charged with making methamphetamine.

• Workers can't find sinkhole bottom
20 feet down, no source yet; longer delay expected

• 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

• 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.

• Griffith aims to force vote on health care
His resolution would bar procedure to enact Senate bill

• 'Historic' space experiment
Shuttle test rack offers way to compare gravity's effect on melted materials

• In step with St. Patrick's tradition
Brother of parade founder to walk route in her honor

• Paint Rock school decision expected soon
Member of Jackson board says state wants it closed

• Pitching opposite views
King, Riley speak at high noon at civic clubs in Rocket City

• 'Wake up' to mentoring need
Radio personality touts importance of helping youth

• Charter schools focus of Hall's town meeting
Foes, supporters talk of segregation, misinformation

• Deep dialogue over dinner
Oakwood students, faculty talk to Soulforce tour's LGBTQ activists

• Does NASA plan violate law?
Aderholt, Griffith, others raise issue of Constellation shutdown in letter to GAO

• Driver faces charges in death of Marine
Lance Cpl. Gregory Suedmeyer recently returned from Iraq

• Housing Authority to buy 4 properties
3 houses, complex in west Huntsville; no complaints

• Mayor's task force to tout city's bid for Google Fiber
Google4HSV page on Facebook aims to stir more public support

• Radio star to push value of mentoring
Michael Baisden to bring One Million Mentors to A&M

• Area legislators see key measures advance
Still uncertainty forbills on quarries,Housing Authority

• At Maple Hill, she brings 'a million stories' to life
Tour guide recounts tales of Teal, Todd,Civil War soldiers

• Bad valve may delay flight
Engineers meet today to discuss options for scheduled April 5 launch

• County could shed its water business
Sale of department to Huntsville Utilities discussed by commissioners

• Police oversight study decisionto air March 25
Recommendation to be made public at next council meeting

• Rapper's message: 'We will survive'
Students see new unity on campus, turn tragedy into positive action

• Relief unit arrival puts departure closer
The eagle has landed! That is right, the 485th Engineer Company out of Rockford, Ill., is on the ground in Iraq.

• She raises funds, awareness and, yes, a pet
Humane Society boss helps shelter mark its 40th year

• Cancer benefit to spotlight '50s
Annual show inFayetteville to aid support network

• Credit union's problem apparently fixed
Redstone Federal Credit Union reported no trouble with deposits on Saturday after technicians spent Friday night correcting posting problems with thousands of accounts.

• Garden treehouses tremendous for kids
Return exhibit has 12interactive adventures,to run through Sept. 30

• Line forms behind idle lockup
As talks drag on,courthouse spacebecomes new issue

• Volunteer opportunities
HandsOn Greater Huntsville connects volunteers with community needs by providing opportunities to the public to assist local nonprofit agencies. To learn more about these and other volunteer opportunities, call HandsOn Greater Huntsville at 539-7797 weekdays from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., or visit volunteerhsv.org. To obtain information on any of the positions listed please write to mona@volunteerhsv.org