A majority-white jury will hear the murder trial of an Alabama police officer charged with killing an unarmed black man. A panel of 14 jurors including two alternates was picked Monday. Of the 14 jurors, six are women and eight are men. Nine out of the fourteen are white. All potential jurors agreed that if a police officer breaks the…
Beginning December 7,  the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Driver License Division will more than double the number of locations, offering services from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. each Saturday. ALEA introduced its Saturday operations pilot program on April 6 at its Birmingham, Opelika and Mobile locations. On November 2, the agency added the Huntsville office to the Saturday lineup….
On Thursday, November 14, a federal jury convicted Jory D’Michael Trayvunn Dumas, 28, of Montgomery, of theft from a gaming establishment on tribal lands and conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The jury found that Dumas conspired with others to steal nearly $200,000 from the Wind Creek Casino in Montgomery. Evidence presented at the trial showed that on…
A Texas-based nonprofit that works to find missing people is resuming its search for the missing stepdaughter of UFC heavyweight Walt Harris. Destinie Duvall with Texas EquuSearch said that Aniah Blanchard is “tugging at our hearts, so it’s tough to sit still and wait.” The horse-mounted search group headed home last week after Duvall said it used “every resource available”…
Montgomery Police are working a stabbing investigation in the 1100 block of Ann Street. Police officials tell Alabama News Network that an adult male was transported to the hospital with a non-life threatening stab wound. So far, no arrests have been made. This is a developing story. Stay with Alabama News Network for the very latest on this situation. Categories:…
The trial for the Montgomery police officer charged with shooting and killing an unarmed black man in 2016 is now underway. Montgomery police officer Aaron Cody Smith shot and killed Montgomery resident, Greg Gunn in the early morning hours of February 25, 2016. Now Dale County judge, P.B. McLauchlin, has granted a the state’s motion for a gag order in…
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A weak cold front will swing through the state today, and it will bring some cooler temperatures to Alabama today as highs will hold in the lower 60s for most locations. It should come through in dry fashion due to limited moisture, but there will be more clouds. It will bring a reinforcing shot of drier air, and that drier…
Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is scheduled to have hip surgery in Houston. Team surgeon Dr. Lyle Cain said in a statement today that Tagovailoa will have surgery on his dislocated right hip Monday. An Alabama spokesman declined to disclose where he was having the surgery citing privacy reasons. Cain says the medical team “consulted with multiple orthopedic experts across the…
One adult male was injured in a shooting that occurred Saturday night in Montgomery. According to Montgomery Police Sgt. Alan Burr, at approximately 9:45 p.m. officers received a report of a shooting victim that arrived at Jackson Hospital. The victim had received a non-life threatening gunshot wound. The offense was reported to have occurred in the area of Lower Wetumpka…
