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The Decatur Daily is a daily (five days a week) newspaper serving Decatur, Alabama and the Tennessee Valley in the North Alabama area of the United States.As of September 30, 2006, it had an average daily circulation of 20,824 and a Sunday circulation of 23,840.
Eighteen-year-old Ronda Morrison, a white dry-cleaning clerk, was murdered at Jackson Cleaners on November 1, 1986, in Monroeville, Alabama. [ 9 ] [ 5 ] She had been shot numerous times from behind. At the time of her murder, Walter McMillian was at a church fish fry, where he was seen by dozens of witnesses, one of whom was a police officer.
Morgan County is a county in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Alabama.As of the 2020 census, its population was 123,421. [2] The county seat is Decatur. [3] On June 14, 1821, it was renamed in honor of American Revolutionary War General Daniel Morgan of Virginia. [4]
Sportspeople from Decatur, Alabama (2 C, 6 P) Pages in category "People from Decatur, Alabama" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
Decatur (/ d ɪ ˈ k eɪ t ə r / [7]) is the largest city and county seat of Morgan County (with a portion also in Limestone County) in the U.S. state of Alabama. [8] Nicknamed "The River City," it is located in northern Alabama on the banks of Wheeler Lake along the Tennessee River .
Decatur County was established by the Alabama Legislature on December 17, 1821. [1] In 1822, Woodville was selected as the county seat. Several years later, however, a survey showed the county did not have the minimum constitutional area, and so Decatur County was abolished on December 28, 1825 [2] [3] and divided between Madison County and Jackson County.
Town Creek is a town in Lawrence County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. It incorporated in March 1875. [3] As of the 2010 census, the population of the town is 1 100, down from 1 216 in 2000.
The Decatur, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area is a moderately urban region of North-Central Alabama.The 2020 Census put the population of the metropolitan area at 152,740, of which one-third resides within the boundaries of its core city, Decatur, Alabama, [1] It is also considered to be part of the North, Northwest, and North-Central regions of Alabama.