Anniston firefighters responded to a house fire just after noon on Sunday.

The college town's claim to Civil War fame was a young man who gave his life for his cause.

Dawit Shiferaw Bekele, from Falls Church, Va., was charged with trafficking, resisting arrest and driving without a license, said Heflin’s interim police chief, Capt. A.J. Benefield.

The Talladega National Forest is one of the top 10 endangered places in the Southeast because of the pressure that still exists to lease the acreage, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.

Anniston, which is in the southern region of the advisory, might see accumulations of up to one-quarter inch of snow by midmorning Saturday, said Jessica Talley, meteorologist for the National Weather Service.

Managing the Talladega National Forest is a massive undertaking. Federal budget cuts may make it even harder. The federal budget cuts known as sequestration, which could take effect March 1 if Congress doesn’t act to stop them, would include a cut of about $2 billion to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That could filter down to the U.S. Forest Service in the form of a $134 million cut to the Wildland Fire Management Program and a $78 million cut to the National Forest System

Cleburne County Emergency Medical Service director Keith Roberts is on paid administrative leave while the board conducts an investigation into alleged policy violations.