MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A special election has been set to fill a vacancy in the Alabama House. House District 78, recently left vacant by Kirk Hatcher after he was elected to the state Senate, covers south, west and north Montgomery. Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday set the special primary election for Tuesday, May 25. The deadline for qualifying with…
A bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest is displayed in the Tennessee State Capitol Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A Tennessee panel has agreed to remove the state Capitol’s bust of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader. The Tennessee Historical Commission voted 25-1 on Tuesday to move the Nathan…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. | Alabama State will host their third Power 5 school at the Barbara Williams Softball Complex this season when No 18 Mississippi State comes to town Tuesday afternoon with first pitch scheduled for 4 pm.
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A 19-year-old charged with capital murder in the slaying of Sheriff “Big John” Williams was denied youthful-offender status. William Chase Johnson appeared in court Monday where he also pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Details on the mental disease or defect weren’t immediately released. With the status denial, Johnson…
DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama councilman apologized for creating a racially insensitive social media post two years ago but a fellow council member believes the apology isn’t enough. On Saturday, Decatur Councilman Hunter Pepper said he was “extremely sorry” for a 2018 Facebook post where he implied that demonstrators protesting the police killing of a Black man should be…
(AP Photo/Jay Reeves) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A 7-year-old girl who used a lemonade stand to help raise money for her own brain surgery has undergone a successful operation. Elizabeth Scott says in a Facebook post that daughter Liza Scott’s surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital on Monday was “uneventful.” She says Liza was alert and talking in the recovery room…
SPRING IS IN THE AIR: An upper air ridge is in place over the Gulf Coast States and that means we are going to stay dry and mainly sunny with a gradual warming trend. Highs today surge into the mid 70s area wide with upper 70s Wednesday, and highs in the lower 80s Thursday and Friday. This is certainly looking…
Forestry officials say wildfires are cropping up across Alabama as the weather dries out. Wildfires have burned more than 2,300 acres of land across Alabama in recent days. And forestry officials say firefighters were battling two dozen blazes statewide on Monday. The agency says no significant rain is forecast for the rest of the week, so anyone burning debris or…
A state senator says he expects the Alabama Senate to debate his lottery and casino bill this week. Republican Sen. Del Marsh of Anniston said Monday that he expects his bill will come to the Senate floor on Tuesday. It will be the first major test of the proposal to start a lottery and have as many as eight casinos…
Tuskegee police and family members of Marquez Duncan Jr. continue to search for answers in his disappearance. Duncan, last seen on February 23, is 22-years-old. He is a student at Tuskegee University. Family members describe Duncan as a person to not have communication with his mother, father, or friends for this length of time. They are pleading with the public…
