Local Church Helps with LA Flood Relief Efforts
As flood waters continue to rise, much of Baton Rouge is in total chaos. Travis Dawkins, Dream Center Director for Church of the Highlands in Montgomery, says it's something…
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Lynching Memorial Coming to Montgomery
The Equal Justice Initiative will announce their plans today to build a multi-million dollar memorial to victims of lynching across the country, and a museum in their building on Commerce Street. The memorial honors hundreds of people lynched by mobs…
Pat Dye Speaks to Elmore Co Auburn Club
Pat Dye was the guest speaker at the Elmore County Auburn Club. He coached the Auburn Tigers from 1981 until 1992 building the football program into a power in…
Teachers Getting Schooled in the First Week of Classes
The first week of school in Montgomery County had many students excited about learning. The Kindergarten class at Flowers School had already learned a lot their first few days. Aliyah…
New MPACT School Opens Doors for Students
It's a brand new day at a brand new school for hundreds of students in Montgomery. The doors to the new Montgomery Preparatory Academy for Career Technology or MPACT, opened today at…
Former Auburn Head Football Coach to Speak in Elmore Co.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (www.waka.com) - Former Auburn Head Football coach, Pat Dye, is in the river region. Dye will be speaking at a barbecue dinner at the Elmore County Auburn Club tonight at 6:00pm. The Eagles from Auburn's Southeastern Raptor Center will…
Prattville Police Search for Bank Robber
The Prattville Police Department, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is searching for an unknown male wanted in reference to a Bank Robbery. According to investigators, this subject robbed the First Community Bank located at 211 Highway 82 Bypass West on…
Special Session Preview
A special session to decide the fate of a lottery in Alabama begins Monday. The topic of a lottery has divided the legislature for nearly two decades, after former Governor Don…
Millbrook Police Still Searching For Armed Robbery Suspect
Millbrook police are still looking for a suspect involved in an armed robbery yesterday afternoon. Milbrook police have already made one arrest in the case. Joe Jones was taken into…
Family Plans On Pressing Charges After Sign Was Stolen From Their Yard
Earlier this week a sign was stolen from a family's yard in Montgomery. The Outlaw's have displayed their family name in their front lawn for almost 50 years. The family's caretaker has now found out who took the sign and retrieved…
I-85 Traffic Fatality Leaves One Dead
An early morning crash on interstate 85 left one person dead today. Montgomery police say a Mazda tribute crashed head on into a Toyota Camry around 5:30 a-m near the south Perry street overpass. The driver of the Mazda, 31…
VictoryLand Casino Opening Set For September
VictoryLand Casino is slated to open next month. Milton McGregor and Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford jointly announced today that VictoryLand will reopen on Tuesday, September 13, at 2 p.m. The casino has been shut down since Attorney General Luther Strange…
Local Restaurant Scene Continues to Change
Whether its pizza, barbecue, Japanese or farm fresh ingredients, you can find it in Montgomery. "We're seeing a lot of new restaurants come in and some places that have been here for…
Children's Advocates Come Together Over Big Issues, Including Special Session
There are a lot of people in the state that are passionate about problems that affect kids, including the group Alabama Children First. They hosted the first ever conference about those issues…
Cause of Death for Giraffe at Montgomery Zoo Identified
An autopsy shows that a giraffe which died at the Montgomery Zoo had a knotted rope inside its intestines. A post-mortem report shows the rope led to an intestinal blockage, and that resulted in aspiration pneumonia which killed the animal.…
I-65 Lane Closing
The Alabama Department of Transportation is closing one lane of Southbound Interstate 65 from mile post 187 to mile post 186. That's the spot where several cars and a UPS truck collided Thursday morning. The left lane will be closed…
How Safe are Montgomery Public Schools?
School is back in session in Montgomery. And while students are learning, officers are doing their part to keep them safe. "We take every possible measure that we can take to…
Crimestoppers Looking for Truck Thieves
Crimestoppers is looking for three men who stole a woman's truck in Millbrook. It happened Wednesday at the Entec gas station on Highway 14 in Millbrook. While the woman is pumping air into the passenger side tires of her Ford F-150 truck,…
Judge Dismisses Case Against Two Tallassee Mayoral Candidates
Two mayoral candidates in Tallassee will be on the ballot in the city's election in two weeks after a circuit judge dismissed a case against them. The issue was whether the candidates…
Senior Alliance Calls for a State Lottery in Alabama
Next week, lawmakers will return to Montgomery to begin a special session called to debate the creation of a state lottery. When they do, there's one group of Alabama voters hoping that a lottery becomes reality. Today, representatives of the…
Bentley Asks Committee To Suspend Impeachment Probe
Gov. Robert Bentley is asking a committee to suspend an impeachment investigation until lawmakers name what they suspect he has done wrong. The governor's office on Thursday filed the motion to suspend proceedings with the House Judiciary Committee until the…
Alabama Firms School Bus Passing Laws
Starting this week, school buses will be making frequent stops all across the capital city and state troopers want to remind drivers how to keep themselves and your children safe. State law requires drivers to yield on both sides of…
CEO of Montgomery Steel Company Sentenced for Bankruptcy Fraud
Kennon W. Whaley, 51, from Auburn, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison on August 3, 2016. In May, Whaley was convicted by a federal jury of two counts of concealment of bankruptcy assets while his company, Southeastern Stud & Components, was…
UPDATE: Alabama BOE Names New Superintendent
Education consultant Michael Sentance, a former education adviser to the governor of Massachusetts, will be Alabama's next superintendent of education. The Alabama Board of Education named Sentance to the post Thursday morning. Board members went through several rounds of voting…
Gun Sales on the Rise
As gun sales remain on a steady rise across the country, we checked to see how local gun sales are doing. At Tri-County Pawn Shop in Prattville, they say business is booming. Owner David Gentry says they usually see more sales…
