AirNow Home Services and Alabama News Network are happy to provide yet another “3 Degree Guarantee” check to a local non-profit. Together, we presented a check for $1,350 to Butterfly Bridge. Butterfly Bridge is a non-profit agency that assist law enforcement and the Alabama Department of Human Resources with any investigation they have involving children. Butterfly Bridge provides children with…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – Jurors have acquitted a man on a federal charge in the slaying of an Alabama police officer in 2019. Marco Perez was found not guilty Wednesday of obstructing justice by killing a witness, Mobile Police Officer Sean Tuder. The defense argued that Tuder didn’t identify himself as an officer and Perez acted legally under Alabama’s “stand…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Health experts say the most recent wave of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be waning in Alabama, with hospitalizations and new cases falling rapidly over the past month. But they say the state could face another round of illness without additional vaccinations and precautions. Two experts from the University of Alabama at Birmingham briefed the news…
PATTERN BEGINS CHANGING: Today, we will maintain the chance for scattered showers and storms mainly east of Interstate 65, as the upper low will begin to lift out of the area so the coverage will be less. We will continue to see more clouds than sun, with highs in the lower 80s. FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: Dry air returns to…
The Alabama Hospital Association has released its daily statistics on the status of Alabama hospitals in treating people with COVID-19. The number of cases continues to fall.
The 33rd Annual Holiday Market, presented by the Junior League of Montgomery,
kicks off Wednesday, Oct. 6 with the Preview Party followed by three full days of shopping, Oct. 7-9
The Montgomery City Council voted on October 5 to rename Jefferson Davis Avenue for civil rights attorney Fred Gray. Gray, who is now 90, still practices law in Tuskegee but grew up on the street during the Jim Crow era and went on to represent Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. In a unanimous vote by the city council, his name will now take Jefferson Davis’s place.
27-year-old Xiaoquin Yan is charged in the First Baptist Church arson case./Source: Montgomery County Detention Facility A Montgomery district judge has increased the bond of the First Baptist Church Montgomery arson suspect. District Judge Monet Gaines issued the ruling Wednesday morning that the bond for 27-year-old Xioaqin Yan be increased to $150,000. Yan’s original bond was set at $30,000. Judge…
DOZIER, Ala. (AP) — Police say a 95-year-old south Alabama man who heard someone breaking into his home grabbed a weapon and ran off an intruder who was later captured and charged with burglary. News outlets quote Covington County Sheriff Blake Turman as saying a senior citizen in the Dozier community was napping in his living room on Friday evening…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – A longtime Alabama sheriff removed from office after being convicted of theft and ethics violations is giving five-star reviews to the jail where he spent more than two weeks in custody. But perhaps he should: He ran it for decades. Ousted Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely addressed the news media on Tuesday in his most extensive…
