Each year about 24 million Americans fall victim to phone scams. And now an elaborate new con has people believing their bank is preventing a problem when, in reality, it’s a criminal looking to steal money. Candace Terrell says it started with a simple text that read in part, “did you attempt $2,900 on your card?” The text notified her…
Instead of climbing into a police cruiser everyday, Thomas Kennington climbs into a boat to patrol some of Alabama’s beautiful waterways. For many, State Trooper means officer on the roadways but the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency has a couple of different divisions such as SBI and the Alabama Marine Patrol. The AMP Division patrols Alabama’s public waterways, oversees the…
Alabama and Wisconsin will meet in 2024 and 2025 in a home-and-home series. The schools announced Monday the teams will play in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sept. 14, 2024. They’ll meet in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Sept. 13, 2025. Wisconsin and Alabama have split their only two meetings. The Crimson Tide won 35-17 in the 2015 opener in Arlington, Texas. That was…
ALEA Marine Patrol troopers announce the arrest of one of the boat operators involved in the accident that took the lives of two people on Lake Jordan on July 4. Damion Bruno, 41, of Clanton, was arrested on Monday, July 29. Bruno is being charged with two counts of murder, one count of first degree assault, one count of 2nd…
Montgomery police are conducting a homicide investigation following the shooting death of Kenneth Sanders, 55, of Montgomery late last night. Police say they and fire medics responded to the 200 block of Conley Circle at about 10:45 p.m. That’s where they say they found Sanders dead of a bullet wound. Police are still investigating what led to the fatal shooting….
Leon Terrell Flowers, 23, of Troy, has been arrested and charged in the robbery-homicide at the J&S Buy Rite gas station in Brundidge. He has been charged with Capital Murder and Robbery. The incident occurred Wednesday, July 24 just after 6:00 a.m. The clerk of the store, Neil Kumar, was fatally shot during the course of the store being robbed….
On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at about 11:00 p.m., MPD and Fire Medics responded to the 700 block of Clinton Street after receiving a report of a subject shot. There, they located an adult male who had sustained a non-life threatening gunshot wound. There have been no arrests and there is no further information available for release at this time….
THE FINAL DAYS OF JULY: Hot and mainly dry weather is expected for Monday as highs once again climb into the lower and mid 90s. For Tuesday and Wednesday, a few more scattered showers/storms are expected with the approach of a weak surface boundary, but even then, rain chances should only be in the 20-30% range. Highs these two days…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Authorities say they’re seeing an alarming rise in gun violence against Alabama law enforcement officers. Al.com reports that three Alabama police officers were killed in the first half of this year. According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, two Alabama law officers died in the line of duty in all of 2018. One officer…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A memorial service will be held for an Alabama prison search dog that died after helping authorities discover synthetic marijuana. The Alabama Department of Corrections says “Jake” will be honored on Tuesday. The dog became ill during a contraband search at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore. Jake alerted authorities to a substance that turned out to…
