Friday kicked off Alabama’s Severe Weather Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday. Select items will be exempt from state taxes until Midnight Sunday, February 24. This weekend will be the prime time to stock up on emergency supplies. Exempt items must cost under $60, but generators under $1000 are exempt for the holiday. For a full list of items that are exempt, Click…
Organizers of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma have announced that presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will speak at the Martin and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast. The breakfast is one part of the annual event which remembers the 1965 Bloody Sunday march for civil rights. “U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is a unique figure in the American electoral…
Chances are, you’ve seen the Alabama News Network Thunder Truck driving through a parade or parked at a school. But you may have wondered what type of weather technology is on the inside. Thunder Truck is a fully-equipped severe weather studio on wheels. You’ll find everything from computers and cameras to weather data collectors and TV broadcasting equipment on board….
Court documents charging R&B star R. Kelly with sexual abuse say the assaults occurred over a more than two-decade timeframe. Charges filed Friday in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago say the abuse dated as far back as 1998 and as recently as 2010. He’s accused of sexually abusing four different victims. Kelly has faced allegations of sexual misconduct and…
Autauga County Sheriff’s deputies say they’ve taken Tony Terrell Howard into custody. Howard had been featured in a CrimeStoppers segment that aired on Alabama News Network earlier this month. Howard had been sought on burglary and theft warrants. Deputies had received information from an anonymous tipster, saying Howard was in the 400 block of Shiloh Circle in Autaugaville. Howard was…
Montgomery police say a man has died after wrecking his pickup truck. Police say they and fire medics responded to the 6100 block of Brewbaker Boulevard around 1 p.m. yesterday. They say they found 65-year-old Michael Foster of Montgomery with life-threatening injuries after he crashed his 2003 GMC Sonoma. He was taken to Baptist Medical Center South where he was…
Alabama businesses and residents affected by severe weather and a tornado on Jan. 19 can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, Administrator Linda McMahon has announced. A tornado hit near downtown Wetumpka that day, causing extensive damage but no loss of life. Gov. Kay Ivey had asked for a disaster declaration by the SBA. The…
Former State Sen. Zeb Little has been charged with felony theft. Little, 50, was arrested Thursday on three theft charges, according to The Cullman Times. He was booked into the county jail and released on $15,000 bond. According to the Attorney General’s office, the indictment charges Little, an attorney, with three counts of first-degree theft of property for stealing a combined total…
The Alabama sales tax holiday on severe weather items is underway from now through Sunday, Feb. 24. This event is designed to help Alabamians prepare themselves for severe weather season. Selected gear, supplies and equipment will be exempt from the state’s 4% state sales tax. In addition, some cities and counties will drop their local sales tax on those same items. It means…
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey plans to deliver the keynote address at a Selma church during the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which remembers the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march of 1965. Booker plans to speak at Brown Chapel AME Church on Sunday, March 3. Booker is one of several Democrats attending the event…
