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FLORENCE — Law enforcement spread out across Lauderdale County earlier this week attempting to serve warrants on deadbeat parents who had not made an effort to pay child support for a number of months.
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TUSCUMBIA — A Sheffield man accused of severely beating his neighbor last year pleaded not guilty to first-degree assault on Tuesday in Colbert County Circuit Court.
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A Florence man is facing a second-degree assault charge after allegedly attacking a 46-year-old man with a baseball bat Sunday morning.
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Shoals sheriffs say they hope a new law going into effect in January 2022 will help ease their overcrowding problems, which are primarily caused by state inmates who can remain in the county jail for months, and sometimes years, before being transferred to the Department of Corrections.
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MUSCLE SHOALS — Two Muscle Shoals men are charged with trafficking in fentanyl and marijuana after authorities found large amounts of the drugs during a Tuesday raid.
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TUSCUMBIA — Family members of James Michael Roland Merritt said they were satisfied that the man accused of shooting Merritt will serve at least 85% of the 20-year prison sentence he agreed to Friday in Colbert County Circuit Court.
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TUSCUMBIA — A Sheffield man was indicted on upgraded felony charges during the May session of the Colbert County Grand Jury in the beating of his neighbor in Sheffield.
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FLORENCE — An Underwood man charged with six counts of attempted murder after attacking his three children and his brother with a machete on Wednesday will remain in jail without bond.
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TUSCUMBIA — A Sheffield man indicted on a capital murder charge pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery on Thursday in Colbert County Circuit Court in exchange for a sentence of life in prison with the opportunity for parole.
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An R.A. Hubbard High School teacher charged last week with allegedly having sex with two students in her classroom was found dead of a gunshot wound at her home Saturday morning, according to Lawrence County authorities.
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MUSCLE SHOALS — A Muscle Shoals man faces numerous drug charges after the Colbert County Drug Task Force arrested him Friday, while he was allegedly trying to sell fentanyl, authorities said.
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A touching moment that was captured on camera is making its rounds on social media.
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FLORENCE — An Underwood man charged with six counts of attempted murder after attacking his three children and his brother with a machete on Wednesday will remain in jail without bond.
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MONTGOMERY — An inmate will continue serving his 5-year sentence for a Lauderdale County theft conviction after his parole request was denied this week, authorities said.
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UNDERWOOD — A man who attacked his three children and other family members with a machete Wednesday is charged with six counts of attempted murder.
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Wednesday's brush with the law is certainly is not the first for Underwood's Kyle Seeley, who has a lengthy rap sheet, according to court records.
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