EL PASO, Texas (AP) – The Latest on a shooting at an El Paso shopping complex (all times local): 7 p.m. El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen says authorities are investigating a hate crime as among the possible motives in the shopping complex shooting that left 20 people dead and 26 more wounded. The chief says authorities are looking into…
JASPER, Ala. (AP) – Authorities say opiods, meth and other drugs are ravaging Walker County in northern Alabama. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that at least 254 people died from drug overdoses in Walker County between 2008 and 2017. Al.com reports that this equates to about 38 deaths per 100,000 residents each year – the highest rate…
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man who allegedly purchased two vehicles from Long-Lewis Ford using another man’s identity. According to Prattville police, investigators received information from Long Lewis Ford, stating that two vehicles had been purchased with a stolen identity between April 2018 and January 2019. The vehicles were a 2014 Ford Edge and a…
EL PASO, Texas (AP) – The Latest on a shooting at an El Paso shopping complex (all times local): 4:10 p.m. Hospitals say they are treating 22 victims of the mass shooting at an El Paso shopping complex, not including a patient who died after arriving at one of the hospitals. The Del Sol Medical Center is treating 11 patients,…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Tobacco shops in Alabama are no longer being able to advertise vaping as a healthy alternative to smoking. A wide-ranging law regulating vaping that passed the legislature earlier this year went into effect Thursday. It also prohibits opening vape shops within 1,000 feet of a school, church or childcare facility and limits advertising on billboards to…
If you’ve got a little one, just a year or so away from going to school themselves, this can be a tough time of year. They’re watching all of the excitement surrounding their older brother or sister and they might feel left out. This app will not only help them feel like they’re going to school, but will give them…
TRUSSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – Alabama authorities say they’ve wiped out a spate of toilet paper thefts by arresting a man accused of stealing dozens of rolls of bath tissue from a local market. Trussville Police Detective Ben Short tells news outlets 50-year-old Ira Glover led officers on a short chase before they arrested him Tuesday. Police say Glover was caught…
Alabama News Network was on the scene at the Montgomery Regional Airport as a Delta Air Lines flight from Houston to Atlanta had to make an emergency landing earlier this afternoon. Emergency officials tell us a light in the cockpit indicated that there was a fuel leak, which is why the flight was forced to land in Montgomery. The plane…
Students at most school systems in our area will be going back to class in the next few days. Several systems start the year on Monday, Aug. 5. Students in Pike Road Schools don’t have to be back until Wednesday, Aug. 21. Here are two lists showing when school resumes. One is alphabetical, the other is by date. Have a…
Hot and humid conditions will continue as highs will be ranging from low to mid 90s across the state again today. During the afternoon, the radar will once again be busy as scattered to numerous showers and storms are expected again. As we see each day, these showers and storms will be producing tropical downpours, and lots of dangerous, vivid…
