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Montgomery Public Schools Board Votes to Purchase Holy Cross Episcopal School Campus

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During Wednesday night’s MPS school board meeting, MPS approved the purchase of the old Holy Cross Episcopal School of Montgomery campus for $1.5 million. Superintendent, Dr. Ann Moore, made the recommendation. It was a 5-1 vote (School Board President Clare Weil is currently out of the country.). Lesa Keith was the lone no vote. She said she’s for the purchase,…

Man Arrested Using Taser to Rob Store

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MPD charged Philip Johnson, 25, with second-degree robbery in reference to a robbery of a business that occurred on Oct. 23 at about 6:30 p.m. in the 7000 block of Atlanta Highway. During the commission of a theft, a store employee made contact with the suspect. The suspect, Johnson, then produced a taser and threatened to use it against the…

More than 300 Officers Perform Contraband Search at Bullock County Correctional Facility

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Alabama Department of Corrections announces more than 300 law enforcement officials began a major search of Bullock County Correctional Facility on Thursday morning. The predawn operation began at 4:00 a.m. and is recovering an assortment of makeshift weapons, contraband cell phones and drugs in the prison which confines more than 1,500 inmates. Assisting agencies included the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s K-9…

Inmate Escapes from Camden Work Release Facility

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The United States Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force is searching for fugitive Austin Hall. He is wanted for Escape from a State Correctional Facility in Wilcox County. While incarcerated at the Camden Work Release, Hall escaped from the facility. He was serving a sentence for multiple Property Crimes. Hall is 5’9” in height and weighing 180lbs. He should be approached with…

One More Nice, Dry Day…Wet Pattern Ahead

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It is another chilly start to the day with widespread 40s across South/Central Alabama. We are also starting the day off sunny, but we should begin to see clouds increase through the afternoon and highs will reach the lower to mid 70s. Tonight will be mainly cloudy and we should begin to see scattered showers across the area after midnight;…

Price of Freedom: Amos Moore of Selma

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Our veteran this week is a retired Chief Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force from Selma. His career has taken him all over the world as he has helped to shape the careers as others as well. Meet Amos Moore… Categories: Price of Freedom

ADOC Inmate Stabbed in Eye, Dies from Injuries

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Law enforcements agents with the Alabama Department of Corrections Investigation and Intelligence Division are investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred at Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton on Thursday. Around 5:21 p.m., inmate, William Stanley Warren, 52, of Guntersville, was pronounced dead by emergency medical personnel as he was to be transported to the hospital. At around 5:00 p.m., a correctional…

Biden Criticizes Trump’s Treatment of Middle Class

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Joe Biden is hammering President Donald Trump’s treatment of the middle class while campaigning in his childhood hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, hours ahead of the president’s own rally in Pittsburgh. The former vice president on Wednesday cast the billionaire president as a charlatan populist whose tax policies and economic stewardship have hurt U.S. workers. Biden said in a 45-minute speech…

Black People Not Happy with Trump’s “Lynching” Statement

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President Donald Trump’s claim that the impeachment inquiry is a lynching has struck a painful chord for black people whose relatives died in racist lynchings. Ohio resident Malinda Edwards says Trump is ignorant, insensitive or racist. The Ku Klux Klan lynched her father, a 24-year-old black man, Willie Edwards Jr. in Alabama in 1957. No one ever went to prison….

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