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Police shot and killed Stephen Perkins, 39, last week in Decatur, Alabama, in what began in a confrontation Friday morning with a tow truck driver trying to repossess a vehicle, police said.
The Battle of Decatur was a demonstration conducted from October 26 to October 29, 1864, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces of 3–5,000 men under Brigadier-General Robert S. Granger prevented the 39,000 men of the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General John B. Hood from crossing the Tennessee River at Decatur, Alabama.
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Decatur High's football and soccer programs play at the 9,000-seat Ogle Stadium at the southern end of the former Decatur High campus, also located near Decatur Morgan Hospital. The stadium, owned by the school system, [ 3 ] is named for Alabama Sports Hall of Famer and former Decatur High coach H. L. "Shorty" Ogle, who led the Red Raiders from ...
The Alabama high school basketball playoffs are finally here and they will kick off with area tournaments starting Friday and going through next week.
The Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic, one of the oldest hot-air balloon races in the mid-South, started in Decatur in 1978 with competition among 17 balloonists from Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana. It was a showcase for the new Decatur balloon, one of the first to represent a city, and an event to kick off ...
The largely conservative citizens of Decatur decided to show their support for the servicemen and servicewomen in Vietnam and to promote patriotism among citizens by presenting an annual Fourth of July event. Over 10,000 people gathered at Ogle Stadium, a football field at Decatur High School, for the first Spirit of America Festival. By the ...
R–Decatur: Demographics: 70.9% ... 1.3% Asian: Population (2022) 150,551: Notes [1] Alabama's 3rd Senate district is one of 35 districts in the Alabama Senate.