A search effort is underway in Kyoto, Japan after a Spain Park High School graduate went missing while visiting the country ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - Groups are working to provide homeless residents in Decatur with access to hot showers. Hands Across Decatur has arranged for a mobile shower unit to come into the city at least ...

On Thursday, the North Alabama Conference completed the sale of the current United Methodist Center to Birmingham-Southern College (BSC), as part of the broader campus transition to the U.S. Coast ...

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 ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q has announced that its “heart and soul,” Don McLemore, has died. McLemore’s obituary says he died on April 17, surrounded by his wife, Carolyn, and their ...

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’ ...

More than 20 church property lawsuits against the United Methodist Church that were still in the Alabama court system as 2025 comes to a close will drag into 2026. Harvest Church of Dothan sued the ...

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) -Services for Ms. Alice Pouncey will be held 1:00 p.m., Saturday, November 29, 2025 at Decatur Methodist Church with burial following in Concord Methodist Church Cemetery in ...

DECATUR, Ala. — Visitors will have a rare chance to see inside some of Decatur’s oldest homes and churches during the annual Historic Decatur Christmas Tour on Saturday, Dec. 13. The self-guided tour ...