BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) _ Attorneys for Jefferson County and New York bond insurers have met to discuss a lawsuit where the companies are asking a judge to appoint someone to oversee the county's sewer system. Jefferson County is trying to avoid filing more

HOLMES BEACH Police are calling a fire at Haley s Motel on Sunday night suspicious because the motel s co-owner has been missing for two weeks. The fire that broke out just after 7 p.m., destroying a duplex holding rooms rented to more

Two people were injured Monday night when two vehicles collided head-on in the 6700 block of Northeast Highway 99 in Hazel Dell. After the crash, a man from one vehicle reportedly fled on foot. Firefighters with District 6 and Clark County sheriff more

MIDDLETON The offers to sell have come in over the last 10 to 15 years, but now is the time for Tom Trotta. His family has owned the 55-year-old Colonial Motel, 3001 Parmenter St., since 1977 but on Monday, the 31 doors of the business were more

A Level 3 sex offender who moved to Austin earlier this month has been reported missing as of late Monday afternoon. Shannon Michael Benson, 29, moved from his previous residence at the Sterling Motel, where he moved to Nov. 9, to the Austin Motel on more

Veva Virgil, 37, of Aptos (Santa Cruz County) told police that she killed her daughter in a room at the Motel 6 on Silver Leaf Drive in Watsonville, said police Lt. Darren Thompson. The girl's name was not released. A member of the motel's more

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) - People traveling to the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama are booking hotel rooms 150 miles from Washington . The Hampton Inn in Frostburg says it's sold out, partly due to inauguration visitors who have booked more more

According to our news partner, EdgefieldDaily.com, Edgefield County Sheriff s Office Chief Investigator Randy Doran said Monday that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of 23-year-old Timothy L. Lakes, of Aiken, for the strong-armed robbery of more

HOLMES BEACH - Within hours of a Sunday night fire that destroyed part of a motel owned by missing Holmes Beach resident Sabine Musil-Buehler, police questioned her boyfriend, William J. Cumber. On Monday, they named Cumber as a "person of interest more

HOLMES BEACH A few blocks down the road from a fire investigation at the motel co-owned by his missing girlfriend, William Cumber sat alone in his apartment Monday waiting for a Manatee County Sheriff s Office detective. Cumber, 39, says law more