CAIRO (AP) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has arrived in Sudan, the first visit by a senior American official since President Donald Trump removed the African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. The move was a key incentive for the government in Khartoum to normalize relations with Israel. Mnuchin is scheduled to meet with Sudan’s leaders,…
ATLANTA (AP) – Democrat Raphael Warnock has won one of Georgia’s two Senate runoffs, becoming the first Black senator in his state’s history and putting the Senate majority within the party’s reach. Warnock, a pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. It’s a stinging rebuke…
COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) – A confrontation that occurred as Alabama sheriff’s deputies answered a call about a domestic disturbance left a woman dead and an officer injured. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says officers responded to a 911 call near Columbiana on Monday evening. One of the officers was badly injured after being struck by a vehicle. Deputies opened fire,…
ONE MORE DRY DAY: It was a frosty start to the day for many locations, but under generally sunny conditions, highs this afternoon should reach the upper 50s and lower 60ss. Clouds will begin to increase late in the day ahead of our next rain maker due in here tomorrow. Tonight, expect increasing clouds with with lows in the low…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The mayors of at least four Alabama cities have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as the illness spreads rapidly across the state following the holidays. The city of Birmingham said Mayor Randall Woodfin was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia on Monday, five days after announcing he tested positive for the new coronavirus. Decatur Mayor Tab…
Montgomery District 3 City Council member Tracy Larkin has died. The announcement came from Frank Lee, the Macon County EMA Director, who calls Larkin “my best friend.” Here is the statement Lee sent to Alabama News Network: “With deep sorry I regret that was asked to make and inform the media that my best friend, Montgomery City Councilor Tracy Larkin,…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama’s DeVonta Smith is your Heisman winner. The first receiver to win the award since Michigan’s Desmond Howard in 1991. Smith sits at 105 catches, 1,641 yards and 20 touchdowns on the year. The next closest receiver is 448 yards shy of Smith. That makes three Heisman winners for Nick Saban and Alabama as Smith joins Mark…
AUBURN, Ala.—Jeff Pitman has been named the head football strength and conditioning coach at Auburn, head coach Bryan Harsin announced Tuesday. Pitman comes to Auburn after spending the previous eight years on Harsin’s staff at Boise State (2014-20) and Arkansas State (2013). “Coach Pitman brings three decades of collegiate strength coaching and player development to the Auburn Family,” Harsin said….
A pursuit ending in downtown Montgomery has led to the arrest of a Trinity man. On Monday, January 4 at approximately 8:15 p.m., Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Highway Patrol attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a 2001 Mercedes SLK for a speeding violation on Interstate 65 at the 167 mile marker. The driver, William King…
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