MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama has set its first hunting season for sandhill cranes in more than a century. The state wildlife agency says a limited number of hunters will be allowed to kill the migratory birds over two periods beginning Dec. 3. The state says it last allowed sandhill crane hunting in 1916. It says the species has made…
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) – A man accused of killing two Dothan teens in 1999 has pleaded not guilty. News outlets report that Coley McCraney entered a plea of not guilty to capital murder charges during a court appearance this week. McCraney was arrested in March for the shooting deaths of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett. The bodies of the two…
Kelsey Nicole Starling was killed on July 4th in a boating accident on Smith Lake. Starling went missing after the boat she was in collided with another boat at around 10pm that night. After two weeks, the search for Starling was suspended indefinitely. Those who knew Starling say she will be remembered for the passion and love she showed to…
An arrest has been made in the early Saturday morning stabbing that resulted in the death of a Eufaula man. According to the Eufaula Police Department, Latonya M Grubbs, 36, of Eufaula was arrested for her alleged involvement in the domestic incident that led to the death of Randy Earl Smith, 36, of Eufaula. Smith died as a result of multiple…
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) – Consistent rains over the next couple of weeks could produce strong cotton and peanut crops in Alabama, despite a relatively dry year. However, as peanuts and cotton approach their peak water needs, any dry spells could dash hopes for a good year after a tough 2018. That’s the assessment of William Birdsong, an agronomist at the…
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) – The Coast Guard has rescued a man from a fishing vessel about 46 miles (74 kilometers) south of Mobile Bay. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a report at 7:44 p.m. Friday of a man aboard a fishing vessel going in and out of consciousness. A MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew was diverted from Coast Guard…
One man is dead after a shooting in East Alabama. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, 20-year-old Demetrius Darrell Bradford Jr. of Fort Mitchell was found deceased in the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The vehicle was parked in the yard of an unoccupied home in the 500 block of Lee Rd. 315 in Phenix City. First responders found…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Federal jurors in Alabama have convicted a man who prosecutors describe as a white supremacist gang member on weapons charges. A news release from prosecutors in Birmingham says a jury convicted 44-year-old Christopher “Rudy” McNabb of Leeds on three gun- and ammunition-related charges this week. The statement describes McNabb as a member of a white supremacist…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – A new ranking credits Auburn University with having the nation’s happiest college students, while the University of Alabama is No. 2 at partying. The Princeton Review ranks universities in a number of categories each year, and Auburn comes in No. 1 this year in terms of having a happy student body. Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee,…
FILE – This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein has died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, says person briefed on the matter, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File) A former law enforcement official tells The Associated Press…
