By Marla Jones, Managing Editor • marla@southerntorch.com (Submitted Photo) GERALDINE, Ala. — State authorities have begun an investigation into an officer-involved shooting that occurred after a police chase began in Blount…
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Fort Payne Battles Downtown Fire
By Marla Jones, Reporter • marla@southerntorch.com (Photo by Orvetta Angelic Patterson) FORT PAYNE, Ala. — On Monday night, a blaze broke out in a vacant building in downtown Fort Payne. Firefighters responded…
Man Charged with Murder
By Staff Reports DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. — According to the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office: On June 30th, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office received a tip about a possible murder that happened approximately 2 months…
Rainsville PD warns of jury duty phone scam
(File Photo) By Staff Reports RAINSVILLE, Ala. — According to Rainsville Police Chief Kevin Smith: On 3 May 2018 I received complaints that a new phone scam was occurring in the…
Suspicious packages mailed to minor girls across Southeast, two in Alabama
By Staff Reports PHENIX CITY, Ala. — Minor girls across the Southeast have received around 50 suspicious packages from a possible predator. Packages have arrived at houses in Virginia, South Carolina,…
Man Arrested for Rape
PHOTO: Junior Pascual Pedro, 20 of Kilpatrick, came into sexual contact with two female juveniles in the past three months. (DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office) By Staff Reports DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. — According to the…
Four arrested after search warrant executed on Highway 40
PHOTO: (Left to Right) Jeffery Alan Sparks (43 of Henagar), Robbie Lenn Gunter (46 of Henagar), Jeffery Elbert Townsel (55 of Fort Payne), and Karen Michelle Combs (44 of Pisgah) were…
NW Georgia kindergarten teacher sentenced to 10 years for child porn
PHOTO: Photo of Charles Mark McCormack (54, originally of Muscle Shoals, Alabama), who was sentenced to 10 years in prison today after confessing to producing child porn. By Tyler Pruett,…