Decatur General News Today

Halfway between Decatur and Hartselle, a small team of 911 dispatchers answer 230,000 emergency calls per year for Morgan County’s 34 law enforcement, fire and EMS agencies. They work 12-hour

It is with great sadness that the family announces the death of Marilyn Matthews. Marilyn Ann Matthews was a caring wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. She left this world

Catrela Perkins says there was no crime scene when she got home and nobody from the city or police department called the family that day.

Catrela Perkins says there was no crime scene when she got home and nobody from the city or police department called the family that day.

Rocky Myers has been on death row for nearly 30 years despite a jury that didn’t send him there, no physical evidence tying him to the crime, and a lawyer who abandoned him and ended his chances for appeal.

Disabled veteran Jessie Qualls likes being a disc jockey in his native Shoals. You can tell by his colorful description of his combat tour in Vietnam, 1965-66. “Like walking through hell with a pair of gasoline-soaked drawers on,” he said. “That’s exactly the way it felt like.” Qualls was an automatic weapons squad leader with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 502nd Airborne Infantry Strike Force, 101st Airborne Division, from March 1965 until July 1966. Initially he was in...