Credit: Montgomery Fire/Rescue Montgomery fire officials are looking into the cause of a mobile home fire. According to Montgomery Fire/Rescue, crews were dispatched to Phlox Lane on Saturday night to a possible structure fire. Once on scene, fire crews encountered a mobile home engulfed with flames. All occupants were out of the home and accounted for. No injuries were reported….
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) – The Alabama Republican Party is against a proposal to replace the state’s elected school board with one appointed by the governor. The state party’s executive committee voted Saturday to oppose the constitutional amendment before state voters in March. The decision breaks with Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and Republican Senate Pro Tem Del Marsh who have endorsed…
Saturdays in the South mean football, and the 150th year of college football in America kicked off right here in the Capital City. Brutal heat greeted fans at Montgomery’s Cramton Bowl for the 2PM kickoff, but the heat didn’t drain the spirits of fans ready to see some football. “It’s exciting to be here to see the college season kick…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – Some south Alabama breweries are working on a new beer to benefit a nonprofit environmental group that works to protect the state’s coast. Six breweries in Mobile and Baldwin County are teaming up to produce an ale called “Friends in Low Places IPA” as a fundraiser for the Alabama Coastal Foundation. The New England-style India pale…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Events in Alabama on Sunday will mark the 400th anniversary of enslaved Africans being brought to colonial America. Communities across the nation are marking a “Day of Healing” recognizing the 400 years since the arrival of slaves to colonial Jamestown, Virginia. Africatown, a community formed by freed slaves after the Civil War, is hosting a Day…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama man who was mistakenly released from jail because of a clerical error is back behind bars. Al.com reports 34-year-old Nathaniel Sebastian, of Wilmer, had been in the Mobile Metro Jail under a $250,000 bond for allegedly killing his mother, 60-year-old Susan Mayo, and burying her under her porch in September 2017. But a clerical…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama is inching forward with a plan to build three new prisons. The Alabama Department of Corrections on Monday will open company responses to a “request for qualifications” from firms interested in building the proposed new prisons. A spokeswoman for Gov. Kay Ivey said the state will release the names of the companies on Monday. Ivey…
The Montgomery Police Department says they are aware of several reports of people being approached in shopping areas and being asked for money. MPD posted via Facebook to warn the public saying: “Many of the reports are identifying a black female as approaching shoppers as they walk to their vehicle and becoming aggressive when they don’t provide her with money….
Project Catalyst (Source: Montgomery County Commission) Montgomery city, county and civic leaders have high hopes for the proposed whitewater recreation center that was announced today. They say the center will be built off Maxwell Boulevard near Maxwell Air Force Base, just off Interstate 65. The center is expected to generate $30 million each year for the economy when it is…
The multi-million dollar whitewater center that is planned for West Montgomery may resemble one that’s already in operation near Charlotte, North Carolina. Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange told Alabama News Network that city and county leaders are studying the facility in North Carolina as a possible model for Montgomery’s proposed complex. That facility is called the U.S. National Whitewater Center. It…
