The U.S. government says the number of Americans thrown out of work since the coronavirus crisis struck two months ago has climbed to nearly 39 million. More than 2.4 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the outbreak that triggered coast-to-coast business shutdowns and brought the economy to its knees, the…
President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen was released from federal prison Thursday to serve the remainder of his sentence at home. Cohen has been serving a federal prison sentence at FCI Otisville in New York after pleading guilty to numerous charges, including campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress. Cohen arrived at his Manhattan apartment building…
The upper low continues to sit and spin over the Tennessee Valley today which means it will continue to produce scattered showers and storms across North Alabama. For us in Central and South Alabama, a stalled frontal boundary will enhance rain chances for us today as it slowly begins to lift northward, bringing an increase in moisture levels so expect…
Legendary Auburn University football coach Pat Dye is in the hospital and has tested positive for COVID-19. That’s according to a post from his sister’s church in Toccoa, Georgia. Dye, 80, is very weak, according to the post from the Toccoa First United Methodist Church, where his sister Jayne Snell attends. The post says he is in the hospital with…
Montgomery, Ala. – Wednesday coalition of Montgomery community partners announced that is has created the Recover Together Small Business Relief Fund, a grant-making initiative that will help small businesses that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The fund is the most recent of several initiatives that have resulted from the collaboration of public and private sector partners that are part of…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied release to 90% of the inmates up for consideration during its first hearing following a monthslong suspension amid the coronavirus pandemic. The board voted to deny parole to 20 out of 22 inmates it reviewed on Tuesday, according to a statement from the agency. The two inmates granted parole were…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s solicitor general has been nominated to serve as a judge on the federal bench. President Donald Trump named Edmund G. LaCour Jr. to fill a vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District, The White House announced in a news release Wednesday. Before joining the Alabama Attorney General’s Office in 2018, LaCour was…
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Two more Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) staff members have tested positive for COVID-19. Via self-reporting, ADOC was informed that a staff member at Camden Community Based Facility/Community Work Center in Camden, Alabama, and another staff member employed at Birmingham Community Based Facility/Community Work Center in Birmingham, Alabama have tested positive for COVID-19. These two individuals have self-quarantined under the…
While many things have slowed down during the pandemic, unfortunately cancer has not. But newly diagnosed cancer patients will be receiving some extra comfort and care thanks to Leadership Montgomery. As a group project, Leadership Montgomery class members donated 1,000 chemo care packages to the Cancer Wellness Foundation of Central Alabama. With the help of sponsors like Hyundai, ASE Credit…
