Decatur City Schools has named Nicholas Holland as the new head varsity baseball coach at Decatur High School. The DCS board approved the hire Thursday evening. Holland, a native of the Shoals area, ...

The City Schools of Decatur board of education voted Thursday to launch a third-party investigation into the district’s operations in the face of mounting public criticism over ...

River City Pride Parade and After Party The parade will roll at 6 p.m. from 2nd Avenue to Founders Park. The doors of the Carnegie Visual Arts Center will open ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 29—A large smile appeared on Larry Brooks' face as he rubbed his freshly shaved head and straightened his new clothes. "This ...

Hands Across Decatur partners with churches to bring Shower Up truck to city ...

DECATUR, Ga. — Parents and community members in Decatur are demanding answers from school leaders following controversial remarks made on a podcast hosted by the husband of City Schools of Decatur ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - First Missionary Baptist Church Decatur celebrated its 160th anniversary Sunday morning with a packed service! Pastor Daylan Woodall said the church is a piece of Alabama ...

City leaders are providing new details on the investigation into a crash that killed a mother and three of her children.

A video of the unique murals went viral on social media Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her work has previously appeared ...

MOORESVILLE, ALA. — For one Lord’s Day, a small white-clapboard church building became a refuge of peace and unity amid the Civil War. Union and Confederate, Black and White, slave and free — all ...

The Alabama Supreme Court today refused to give a rehearing to a group of breakaway Methodists in Auburn who had sued over control of church property. The state Supreme Court had dismissed the lawsuit ...

Jimmy Dean Smith, 92, president of Jimmy Smith Jewelers in Decatur, died Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, at Riverside Senior Living. He was born May 30, 1933, in rural Giles County, Tenn., to Johnny ‘Frank’ ...