An audit of Montgomery Public Schools shows over $700,000 missing. The audit which is from Oct. 2017 to Sept. 2018 shows $703,197.66 missing. The audit says letters were sent to current and former employees requesting repayments of the money. CLICK HERE to read the full audit. One section details how public funds at Brewbaker Tech Magnet High School were used…
Authorities are searching for a convicted killer they say escaped from a work-release facility. The Alabama Department of Corrections says the inmate escaped from the Childersburg Work Release Center Saturday night. Officials say Daniel Miner was not found in his bed during a count of inmates at the facility. WHNT-TV reports that Miner was last seen wearing state prison-issued…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Authorities say a man has been struck and killed by a Mardi Gras float during a parade in New Orleans. It was the second death in days involving a parade float and cast a pall over the Carnival festivities. Police said in a statement that the death occurred Saturday night on a downtown parade route of…
According to Alabama lawmakers, the plan to house passengers testing positive for the coronavirus in a FEMA center in Anniston has been cancelled. Rep. Mike Rogers and Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) both tweeted saying after speaking with President Donald Trump the plan to bring cruise ship members affected by the Coronavirus has been canceled. This comes after the city of…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Four new victims of racial violence are being added to the Jefferson County Memorial Project. The new names were discovered by students and others working with the project. Among them is Jim Hatter, who was dragged out of his home before bullets tore through his body in 1910. Hatter helped another black man accused of killing…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – It’s the last weekend of the Mardi Gras season on the Alabama coast. Nine parades are planned for Saturday and Sunday around Mobile and Baldwin County. And Sunday is Joe Cain Day in Mobile, where thousands of revelers will celebrate the man credited with creating Mobile’s Mardi Gras festivities. There are more parades on Monday and…
By now you’ve probably learned how to do something by watching YouTube videos. I know I have. A few years ago my big screen TV started showing a blurry picture that only got worse. The TV repairman (are there any TV repairmen left?) couldn’t make the house call before the big game that weekend. I turned to YouTube and found…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil investigations into a long-running practice whereby company employees opened millions of unauthorized bank accounts in order to meet unrealistic sales goals. Since the fake-accounts scandal came to light in 2016, Wells has paid out billions in fines to state and federal regulators, reshuffled…
The state sales tax holiday weekend on severe weather preparedness items runs from Friday, Feb. 21 until midnight on Sunday, Feb. 23. Alabama shoppers can stock up tax free on supplies costing less than $60 that can be used for a natural disaster or a general emergency. Generators costing $1,000 or less also can be purchased free of the state’s…
One of the most addictive apps is now helping people stop using it. Tik Tok, the app with bite-sized videos created by other users has added features called “Digital Wellbeing” in its settings where people can set time limits for using the app. The app will now let you limit the time spent looking at the screen for 40 minutes,…
