Source: Governor’s Office/Hal Yeager Governor Kay Ivey released the following statement this morning reflecting on September 11, 2001: “September 11, 2001 will forever be marked as one of our country’s darkest days, as it changed our lives forever. Almost two decades later, we still grieve the loss of the nearly 3,000 American lives and continue to honor the memory of…
RAIN CHANCES CONTINUE TO RISE: Higher moisture levels are back across the area as the air mass is very muggy and almost tropical. For today, like yesterday, scattered showers and storms are expected and we should see a few more of them across the Alabama landscape, compares to what we saw yesterday. Again, the sky will be partly sunny through…
The Environmental Protection Agency has removed roughly 50 blocks in downtown Montgomery from its proposed superfund priority list. The area is called the Capitol City Plume. See the area in this map. A designation on the EPA National Priority list means a site has known releases or threatens releases of hazardous materials and/or pollutants. Parts of downtown Montgomery were added to…
On Thursday, September 10, Montgomery Public Schools took big step in possibly ending the state intervention. School leaders went before the state school board to say why the intervention should be lifted. Back in June, MPS leaders sent a letter to State Superintendent Dr. Eric Mackey requesting they be lifted from intervention status. School officials told the state school board…
Prattville police say they’ve charged Christopher Hundley, 32, of Prattville with murder. They say he was already in the Autauga County Metro Jail when the murder warrant was executed. Police say the charge is related to the investigation into of a domestic assault of Hundley’s wife, who was pregnant at the time. Police say injuries sustained by Hundley’s wife during the…
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that on Friday the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the convictions of Jacory Tyshon Townsend for murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle. Townsend was convicted in Pike County Circuit Court in January 2019 for the murder of Xavier Hykeem Thomas. The evidence at trial showed that on May 26, the victim was a…
Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a body found in the 9000 Block of Lee Road 188 in Waverly. Caretakers of the property located the body of a male in a wood area and notified police. Lee County Coroner Bill Harris said the body appeared to have been there for several days. The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery…
Andalusia police are investigating the theft of a a 2015 Heartland Mallard RV. The trailer has the tag number, #Z647BU. Investigators say an employee with GCI went to the pick up the RV from 110 Manhattan Drive but noticed the trailer to be missing. A representative for Wright Manufacturing Company said the RV was there on August 12. The RV…
Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday announced that Alabama will be re-allocating $300 million in CARES Act funds to Alabama’s Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. The funds will be used to offset “shared costs,” which are costs that are equally distributed to all tax-paying employers and can significantly increase employers’ unemployment insurance tax rates. “Since the $1.9 billion in CARES Act funds…
Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday awarded $72.34 million of the Coronavirus Relief Fund for higher education institutions to support the purchase of technology and infrastructure related to remote instruction and distance learning. Today, I’m awarding $72.34 million of #CARESAct funding for higher education institutions to support the purchase of technology & infrastructure related to remote instruction & distance learning. #alpolitics…
