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The banner headline in the Press 60 years ago sounded like something former editor Mike Patrick might concoct for his annual April Fool’s Day joke: “Tubbs Hill Resort Planned.”

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Charles Smith lies in the graveyard of St John the Baptist church in North Baddesley. It wasn’t often a poor man had a gravestone in those days, let alone two side by side. In the early 1800’s country gentlemen and wealthy merchants controlled society. As Justices of the Peace in the local courts they ruled the common people. It was a time of unrest in the countryside. Perhaps the most famous case is of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six farm workers from Dorset. In 1834, they were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers and trans...

Decatur men charged in kidnapping Michael Leon Baker, John Pointer III Both were given bonds of $150,000 Posted: Feb 8, 2021 4:30 PM Posted By: Josh Rayburn Two Decatur men face kidnapping charges in connection with an incident from January. Michael Leon Baker, 36, and John Pointer III, 38, were arrested and taken to the Morgan County Correctional Facility with bonds of $150,000, the Decatur Police Department announced Monday. Police said a handcuffed man entered a business on Jan. 18 and said he had been kidnapped and beaten at a residence in the 700 block of Lafayette Street. Baker and Po...

Two Decatur men arrested for kidnapping after victim runs into gas station for help Decatur Police arrest 36-year-old Michael Leon Baker and 38-year-old John Pointer III on kidnapping charges. A kidnapping investigation is underway in Decatur By Madison Scarpino | February 8, 2021 at 6:59 PM CST - Updated February 9 at 5:32 AM HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Decatur police arrested 36-year-old Michael Leon Baker and 38-year-old John Pointer III on kidnapping charges. The arrest comes weeks after the victim escaped and went to the Wavaho gas station off of Highway 20 in Decatur. The Wavaho ow...