The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Friday, May 29, to close 15 churches across the state, ...

Bishop Jonathan Holston, who oversees United Methodist churches in Alabama, released clergy assignments on Saturday as the ...

The City Schools of Decatur board of education voted Thursday to launch a third-party investigation into the district’s ...

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 ...

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

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. (WAFF) - Hayward Don McLemore, a Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q pioneer and restaurateur of the year, passed away on April 17, 2026, at the age of 84. McLemore was born in Decatur, Alabama, to ...

A Stone Mountain woman wearing a hijab says she was racially profiled and denied entry to a Democratic event in Decatur despite having a ticket. Witnesses claim Jawahir Sharwany was peacefully waiting ...

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 ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Decatur police say they've arrested a man wanted for a ...

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 ...