The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office is hoping to help those with a criminal record obtain employment skills. In a partnership with Tuskegee University, the job retention workshop will be held on Thursday, October 28. The workshop is geared towards people in need of employment after being in jail or have obtained a criminal record. Several companies will be on-hand…
Auburn coach Bryan Harsin declined to address his vaccination status days after the university imposed a mandate requiring all employees be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
Alabama State Troopers say a Montgomery County man was killed when he crashed his motorcycle into a metal pole in Crenshaw County.
On September, 30, 2021 an arsonist tried to burn down Montgomery’s First Baptist Church. With extensive damage and expensive repairs ahead, Pastor Mark Bethea joined David Lamb on Alabama News Rising to discuss what the immediate plans are for his congregation and the surprising positives amidst a painful chapter.
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) – An Alabama man who celebrated his birthday at a Mississippi casino died after he fell from the top of a parking garage. Authorities said it happened late Friday in Biloxi. Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer identifies the man as 45-year-old Joseph Baynes of Daphne, Alabama. Baynes, his wife, and another couple had been at Hard Rock…
Source: Maxwell Air Force Base MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say a longtime professor at a U.S. Air Force school in Alabama has pleaded guilty to lying to an investigator about his contacts with a Chinese official. The Justice Department says 69-year-old Xiaoming Zhang faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to making false statements to…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – An 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all. Claudette Colvin was arrested by Montgomery police months before the better-known Rosa Parks because of the mother of the movement…
TERRIFIC TUESDAY: Today will be a beautiful fall day across Alabama as we will be in-between systems. Expect a sunny day with temperatures ranging from the upper 60s to low 70s across the state. Tonight, expect temperatures to fall into the upper 40s and lower 50s. MIDWEEK STORM THREAT: Our next storm system begins to take shape late today to…
Alabama lawmakers return to Montgomery this week to redraw congressional and legislative districts.
Marterrius C. Moore of Millbrook has been charged with Aggravated Child Abuse for causing his 2-month old child serious head and body injuries. On Sunday, October 24, 2021, Millbrook police were notified by Children’s Hospital staff that they were treating a 2-month old child suffering from severe head trauma.
