Ex-Interim Selma, AL, Fire Chief Headed to Prison for Deadly Hit-and-Run
The former Selma Assistant Fire Chief Franklin N. Edwards, 55, was sentenced to two years for leaving the scene of the deadly wreck near Bessemer.
Sep 18, 2026Open source
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Selma, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Dallas. Associated ZIP codes: 36701, 36702, 36703.
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Selma City Council seat declared vacant after months of absences
A seat on the Selma City Council is now vacant after Ward 1 Councilman Troy Harvill was removed from office under Alabama law following months of missed coun...
Jul 16, 2026Open source
Exhibit of historic 1965 Selma civil rights march photos extended at state Capitol in Honolulu
The 28 photographs — half of which had never been seen before — offer a rare visual account of Hawaiʻi's participation in the march in Alabama led by Ma...
Jul 6, 2026Open source
Hawaii displays historic photos of Martin Luther King Jr. wearing flower lei during Selma march
HONOLULU (AP) — Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. adorned with flower lei from Hawaii residents who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join him on...
Jul 1, 2026Open source
Selma selected as one of Alabama’s newest Main Street communities
After more than a year of preparation, planning and training, Selma has officially earned a spot as one of Alabama’s newest Main Street communities.
Jun 15, 2026Open source
Selma mayor says housing, tornado recovery are key to reversing population decline
Selma is once again being listed among the fastest-shrinking cities in Alabama, but city leaders say there is more behind the numbers.
Jun 8, 2026Open source
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Plantersville man killed in Dallas County single-vehicle crash
A Plantersville man died in a single-vehicle crash about 9:10 a.m. Friday, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
Jun 6, 2026Open source
Man accused of gunning down ‘bubbly’ Alabama cheerleader, 18, seeks to have charges dropped, claiming s...
Steven Tyler Whitehead, 28, remains out on bond with pending murder and attempted murder charges over the 2025 killing of 18-year-old Kimber Mills while awai...
Sep 2, 2026Open source
'Full-circle moment': Tyler Fay, Grand Island native, returns home as Alabama's ace at CWS
Alabama pitcher Taylor Fay returns to Omaha for College World Series. The Grand Island native leads Crimson Tide as ace after breakout season into opener aga...
Jun 12, 2026Open source
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Activist charged with setting fire to embattled Mississippi police department
An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Nov 4, 2026Open source
Alabama oyster season opens amid decline in oyster numbers
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
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Selma is in Dallas County, Alabama.
Region: Central Alabama
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36701, 36702, 36703
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Activist charged with setting fire to embattled Mississippi police department
An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Nov 4, 2026Open source
Alabama oyster season opens amid decline in oyster numbers
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Nov 3, 2026Open source
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Selma, the seat of Dallas County, stands on a bluff above the Alabama River in Muscogee Creek country. French explorers recorded the site in 1732 as Écor Bienville, and American settlers called it Moore's Bluff. The town was incorporated in 1820 and named by William R. King, a North Carolina planter and politician who later became vice president of the United States; he took the name, meaning "high seat" or "throne," from James Macpherson's Ossianic poem The Songs of Selma.
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During the Civil War Selma was one of the South's main military manufacturing centers. Its arsenal, iron works and foundry made about half the cannon and two-thirds of the fixed ammunition the Confederacy used in the last two years of the war and built warships such as the ironclad Tennessee. Three miles of earthworks surrounded the city, but Union cavalry under General James H. Wilson broke through in the Battle of Selma in April 1865, after the fight at Ebenezer Church on April 1. A century later Selma became a symbol of the voting rights movement. After state trooper fire killed Jimmie Lee Jackson in nearby Marion, John Lewis and Hosea Williams led about 600 marchers from Brown Chapel AME Church across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, where troopers attacked them on what became known as Bloody Sunday. Two weeks later Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a protected march that reached the State Capitol in Montgomery on March 25, and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965. Sources Wikipedia: Selma, Alabama The Historical Marker Database: 'Bloody Sunday' Attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge / U.S. Congress Approves Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Alabama Tourism Department)
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32.4197190, -87.0245270
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12:18 PM America/Chicago
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