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 ...

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 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 ...