If your favorite arcade game is one of those claw machines where you try to grab plush toys, tech gadgets, and figurines, you’re going to love a brand new app from Sega. Sega Catcher Online puts the claw from an arcade in Japan in your hands. The app launched in January on iOS devices in America. It works just like…
The Montgomery Police Department is searching for the location of Michael Smith wanted for Theft of Property 3rd Degree and Unlawful Breaking and Entering of a Vehicle. The incidents in question occurred on January 29, and January 30. If you know the whereabouts of Smith, please call the Police or CrimeStoppers at 215-STOP (7867). Your Tip may lead to a…
An Alabama lawmaker fed up with her colleagues’ attempts to outlaw abortion has filed legislation to require all men over 50 to get vasectomies. Democratic Rep. Rolanda Hollis said her bill is no more outrageous than attempts to dictate a woman’s body and her reproductive rights. Alabama lawmakers last year approved a ban on abortion unless the woman’s life was…
On February 13, around 11:36 p.m., Opp Fire Department and Opp Police Department responded to a structure fire at 601 McCord Street. Upon arrival, Engine 7 reported a working fire with heavy fire showing vented through the roof and out the front. Fire personnel entered the residence extinguishing the fire and conducting a primary search for any victims. Fire personnel…
**UPDATE** The Prattville Police Department has notified CrimeStoppers that the two suspects wanted for stealing from Belk have been identified. However, the case is ongoing. CrimeStoppers says that on Friday, February 14, the two suspects wanted for stealing from Belk was identified after an anonymous tip through CrimeStoppers led to their identity. The case is still an ongoing investigation. A…
Jurors in Lawrence County have acquitted a former middle school teacher who was charged with having sex with a student. The 11-man, one-woman jury returned the verdict in favor of 30-year-old Taylor Brooks Boyles of Moulton on Thursday. A former student testified the two had sex twice in 2017, and jurors saw a videotape in which Boyles told authorities said…
Montgomery police charged Caleb Provitt, 24, with domestic violence strangulation and child abuse in reference to a domestic dispute that occurred on Feb. 14 shortly after midnight in the 6000 block of Monticello Drive. The adult female victim says that during a physical altercation she was choked and bitten by her boyfriend, Provitt. She sustained minor injuries. Provitt was present…
Opp police need your help finding the person who shot into a home this morning. Three people were inside the home. Investigators say at around 4:40 a.m., they responded to the 700 block of Barnes Street. They discovered five bullet holes in the front bedroom window. They say the bullets traveled through the bedroom before hitting a wall. Police say…
Gov. Kay Ivey has announced the members of her Study Group for Gambling Policy. She had announced the formation of the group during her State of the State Address earlier this month. The group will gather information to help her, the Legislature, and Alabama voters to understand how a possible expansion of gaming would impact the state. Currently, the…
On February 12, Diamond Markayla Mathis, 24, of Montgomery, was sentenced to 132 months in federal prison for her role in committing multiple armed robberies and violating federal firearms laws, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Montgomery Police Chief Ernest Finley. Following her 11-year prison sentence, Mathis will be on supervised…
