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What the Tech? Apple Arcade

It’s called “Apple Arcade” with a simple premise: rather than downloading games to your phone, you pay a flat fee, 5 dollars a month for unlimited games. Sort of a Netflix-for-gamers. These are games developed for Apple. Some first-person fighter games, some puzzles. This game is a story where you choose what the characters say to determine what happens next….

What the Tech? Zombie Apps

How many apps do you have on your smartphone? Probably more than you think. A survey by App Annie shows that the average smartphone user has in the neighborhood of 80 apps on their phone and they use less than half of them. Big deal, you think? What’s the harm? Maybe I’ll get back to that game one of these…

Price of Freedom: Jerry Wheat of Wetumpka

81-year-old Jerry Wheat of Wetumpka served his county as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force.  He knows the Price of Freedom. He joined the Air Force in 1958, when he was right out of high school. He trained to be an aircraft mechanic. He did three tours overseas, first in Saudi Arabia. Then Vietnam in 1966. “The work…

Pleasant Mornings; No Signs of Beneficial Rain

Today expect mainly sunny conditions and low humidity as a very dry air mass remains in place across the state. We will still have breezy easterly winds at times and highs today will range from the upper 80s to lower 90s across South/Central Alabama. With the dry air mass in place, the next several nights will be very comfortable as…

20TH Annual Statewide Law Enforcement Summit

Hundreds of law enforcement officials were in Montgomery Thursday, for the Statewide Law Enforcement Summit. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall hosted the event, which provided officers with a full day of instruction on the challenges facing the law enforcement community. The summit began on a somber note, with a moment of silence for fallen Tuscaloosa officer Dornell Cousette. Cousette was…

Prosecutors Convict Montgomery Man of 2016 Murder of Selma Man

District Attorney Daryl Bailey announced that a Montgomery County jury has found Antuan Johnson guilty of the 2016 shooting death of Gregory Keon Smith. Johnson was 21-years-old at the time of the murder. The defendant was in the parking lot outside of a party being held by hundreds of teenagers in a building off the Southern Boulevard. Johnson saw a…

Montgomery Death Investigation Transitions to Homicide Investigation

A death investigation launched by the Montgomery Police Department on September 10 has transitioned into a homicide investigation after MPD determined the shooting death of Rodricas Hampton, 38, to be a criminal homicide. MPD and Fire Medics responded to the 3100 block of Atlanta Highway around 3 a.m., Saturday, August 24, after receiving a report of a subject shot. Upon…