TROY, Alabama – Troy’s football season opener scheduled for Sept. 5 against ULM has been rescheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, at 2:30 p.m. the Sun Belt Conference announced Thursday. Positive tests at ULM – followed by contact tracing, quarantines, and return to play protocols – have necessitated the rescheduling of this game. “I received the unfortunate news that ULM will be…
Tallassee City School Interim Superintendent Brock Nolin announced that a player on the Tallassee High School football team tested positive for COVID-19. Nolin says the player’s symptoms started several (more than two) days after the last game. During the interim, there was no interaction between the athletes as a group nor with the athlete who tested positive with COVID-19. Tallassee…
Joe Biden says President Donald Trump sees unrest in Wisconsin as “a political benefit” for his reelection campaign. The former vice president also says he’d be willing to travel to Wisconsin if it could be done safely and without further inflaming tensions. The Democratic presidential nominee, denounced violence but said Trump was “pouring gasoline on the racial flames” and making…
The Alabama Department of Labor announced Thursday that the Extended Benefits (EB) program will expire on August 29. ADOL will continue to pay these benefits through September 19. This is a separate program from the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program that was enacted under the CARES Act. PEUC provides for an additional 13 weeks of regular unemployment following exhaustion. The…
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the situation says NBA players decided Thursday that they want to continue the season, coming to that consensus one day after three postseason games were postponed in a protest of racial injustice. It was not clear yet when the season would resume, according to the person who spoke to…
On Thursday, August 27, Governor Kay Ivey held a press conference to announce COVID-19 updates. During her press conference, she announced that she would extend the mandatory mask order to Friday, October 2. Health officials credit the mask order with reducing COVID-19 cases in the state. Governor Ivey also said she will keep in place other health orders, such as…
Hurricane Laura is pounding southwest Louisana and east Texas with ferocious wind and torrential rain and has unleashed a wall of seawater that could push 40 miles inland. At least one person has been killed. Laura arrived as a Category 4 storm, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S. based on its wind speed of 150 mph….
Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded a $750,000 grant to help create 85 new jobs and increase commerce in Sumter County and the state’s Black Belt region. The Sumter County Commission will use funds to improve infrastructure necessary for Enviva, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, which is investing more than $140 million in building a production facility at the…
FOR TODAY: It will be another hot and very humid day with highs in the low to mid 90s and heat index values over 100°. We will see a mix of sun and clouds, with scattered showers and storms developing this afternoon, providing some heat-relief to some locations across South/Central Alabama. LATEST ON LAURA: Hurricane Laura made landfall overnight over…
In the aftermath of Tuesday’s city elections across Alabama, several mayoral races in our area will be heading to a runoff on October 6. Runoffs are needed when a race ends without a candidate receiving a majority of the votes. The top two finishers will move to the runoff with other candidates in a race eliminated from moving forward. Because…
