TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense has launched an aerospace education center of excellence at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Officials say the Aerospace Education Research and Innovation Center will support undergraduate research in materials and aerospace sciences relevant to the Defense Department and the aerospace industry. The school was the home of the Tuskegee Airmen. The Defense…
Montgomery firefighters are investigating a house fire that killed four people. A home in the 1800 block of Gibson Street caught fire Monday night. Montgomery Fire/Rescue Assistant Fire Chief Stanley L. Cooper says at 10:31 p.m., firefighters arrived to find the house engulfed in flames and smoke. As fire crews searched the home, they found the bodies of the four…
TODAY/TOMORROW: These two days should be the best days of weather this week across Alabama. High pressure builds in and we are going to be staying dry with a good supply of sunshine both days. Highs today will climb to near 70°, while mid 70s are expected Wednesday. THURSDAY/FRIDAY: Most of Thursday looks to remain dry, but clouds will return…
CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — A Tennessee man was killed when a small airplane crashed in north Alabama. Officials say 70-year-old John T. Sigman Sr. of Dyersburg, Tennessee, died when a private plane went down near Cullman Regional Airport on Saturday evening. A Cullman man who was identified as the only passenger in the aircraft was seriously injured. Coroner Jeremy Kilpatrick…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A man charged with shooting one Birmingham police officer to death and wounding another has pleaded guilty to capital murder. A judge sentenced 33-year-old Jeremy Elwin Owens to life without parole on Monday in the killing. Owens avoided a possible death penalty by pleading guilty to killing Sgt. Wytasha Carter on  Jan. 13, 2019. He also…
(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) SELMA, Ala. (AP) — This year’s commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans will honor four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in 2020, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. Organizers announced plans for the commemoration on Monday. Rev. Joseph Lowery, C.T. Vivian, attorney…
A Jet Crash took the lives of two pilots, Friday evening near the Montgomery Regional Airport. Residents who live near the crash site say they were shocked and full of emotion once they found out the magnitude of what happened. Phillip Birch, lives on Old Lamar Road, and says when he and his wife got home Friday, there were an…
On Monday, February 22, the state of Alabama honored supermarket employees for the first time ever. Governor Ivey declared it to be “Supermarket Employee Day”. She made the declaration on the state capitol steps. Store officials from Piggly Wiggly, Publix, Greers and others were in attendance. Governor Ivey says the supermarket employees have shown Alabamians willingness and desire to help…
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia. FILE- In this July 17, 2019 file photo, New York City police officer Ishmael Bailey, right, moonlights as a bodyguard for Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, as…
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 500,000 – a number so staggering that a top health researcher says it is hard to imagine an American who hasn’t lost a relative or doesn’t know someone who died. The virus has reached into all corners of the country and communities of every size. At the same time, many families are…
