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A Washington County car dealership has pulled a Fourth of July promotion that offered every buyer a Bible, a 12-gauge shotgun and an American flag, after Ford Motor Company asked…
The National Weather Service office in Mobile has confirmed that two EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Washington County during severe weather on Sunday, adding the southwestern Alabama county to the…
Chatom, the seat of Washington County, spent most of its history as a dry town where anyone wanting a drink had to leave town to get one. That changed when…
Pierre Pelham, the Harvard-trained lawyer from Chatom who served two terms in the Alabama Senate and became its president pro tem, died at 80. Friends and rivals recalled a formidable…
A 2008 WKRG report examined how rising gasoline prices affected Chatom residents, who said they combined errands to reduce trips into town.
A judge ordered suspended Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose to vacate his Jackson home and barred him from threatening his wife, their daughters or her attorney, then sealed the…
Facing a 113-page ethics complaint, Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose denied every count and argued that his mental and physical condition had impaired his ability to make rational decisions.
With Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose suspended and facing a 60-charge ethics complaint, judges from Washington, Choctaw, Monroe and Marengo counties were assigned to keep his courtrooms running.
Archived WKRG coverage described a Chatom meeting on how southwest Alabama communities could prepare for growth tied to the planned ThyssenKrupp mill.
Circuit Judge-elect Stuart DuBose faced renewed bar discipline in late 2006 after the Alabama Supreme Court rejected a suspension timed to begin the day after the election as too lenient.