Overnight the winds became light, and with a clear sky, temperatures have fallen into the upper 20s and lower 30s across the southern half of Alabama. Today will be a sunny and warmer day as highs return to the mid and upper 50s, which is right where temperatures should be this time of year. WEEKEND WEATHER: Tomorrow will start off…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. calls on a reporter at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says lawmakers face threats of violence from an “enemy” within Congress and more money is needed to protect them. The California Democrat’s remarks are a startling acknowledgment…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A lawyer for an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed next month is asking the Alabama Supreme Court to delay the lethal injection because of COVID-19. Fifty-one-year-old Willie B. Smith is set to be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 11 at Holman Correctional Facility. He was convicted of the 1991 shotgun slaying of Sharma Ruth…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama will soon announce a time frame for expanding who can get COVID-19 vaccinations. State Health Officer Scott Harris made the announcement Thursday during budget hearings. Legislators say there is widespread public frustration and anger over the vaccine rollout. Harris said the state will provide more information Friday. He said supply is the main problem in…
Alabama State Troopers have identified the person killed in a three-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon. They say 38-year-old Dustin Knight was killed when the Ford F-150 he was driving hit an 18-wheeler and then collided with a Volvo truck. Knight was not wearing a seat belt and died at the scene. The crash happened on Interstate 65 near Millbrook. The driver…
FILE – Cicely Tyson arrives at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 20, 2009, in Los Angeles. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died. She…
Andalusia have arrested two men wanted for murder. Tyquise Jamal Jenkins, 23, and Courtney Lee Porter, 29, both face Murder charges. The charges stem from the shooting death of Micah Spenser Coon, 26. On November 16, 2020, police found Coon suffered from a gunshot wound. He died at the scene. Earlier this month on Friday, January 8, police arrested Brittany…
Walker tries to reconnect with his children on a new episode of Walker TONIGHT at 8/7c on your local Montgomery CW!
In anticipation of International Zebra Day on Sunday, Jan. 31, the Alabama Safari Park is excited to announce the birth of the zoo’s first-ever Grevy’s zebra named Yala. Her mother, Yogi, has been keeping watch closely over her new baby as she explores the 350-acre drive-thru zoo. Yala is very curious and enjoys making friends with some of the other antelope…
The City of Montgomery, Montgomery County and Montgomery Emergency Management Agency have partnered with the Alabama Department of Public Health to host a 1A-Plus COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Saturday, Jan. 30, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Montgomery’s South/Central Police & Fire/Rescue Station, 3003 E South Blvd. 1A-Plus vaccination recipients include individuals who are 75 years of age and older,…
