The Montgomery Public Schools Transportation Hotline is now open. Parents can call 334-223-6900 to find out bus numbers, pick up times and other information for MPS students. There is also an email address where parents can send their questions: transportationinfo@mps.k12.al.us. Transportation Director Brian Thornton encourages parents to contact the transportation department before school begins. “It is very important that parents…
An Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) K9 has died from complications after becoming ill during a contraband search operation at the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County on Thursday, July 18. The Corrections K9, “Jake”, was taken from Staton to an area veterinary hospital, and then transported to the Auburn University Veterinary Clinic where he was treated. Jake’s handler, Sgt. Quinton…
On July 19, at approximately 3:45 P.M., the Eclectic Police Department , with the assistance from the Elmore County Sheriff’s Department, conducted a search warrant in the 600 block of Dunn Adams Road in Eclectic. The search resulted in the following evidence being seized: weapons, narcotics, and drug paraphernalia. Olaf Leonard, 39, 0f Eclectic was taken into custody during the…
The Montgomery Police Department is conducting a homicide investigation following the Sunday evening shooting death of Courtney Jones, 17, of Montgomery. MPD and Fire Medics responded to the 400 block of Hall Street at about 11:35 p.m. July 21, after receiving a report of a subject shot. There, they located a juvenile female, Jones, who had sustained a life-threatening gunshot…
TODAY/TOMORROW: A rare summertime front will be approaching the state later today and will cause an enhancement of our rain chances, especially tomorrow. Showers and storms will be scattered today, but as the front sinks slowly southward through the state, we are expecting showers and storms to continue tonight and into Tuesday for much of Central Alabama. For our Tuesday,…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) – A new program is being developed to address the opioid problem in parts of west Alabama. A statement from the University of Alabama says a team of researchers and others has gotten a $200,000 federal planning grant for a tele-health network to help fight opioid addiction and deaths. The group will work in Franklin, Marion, Walker…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Alabama has already had its deadliest year in two decades for boaters – and summer isn’t nearly over. Al.com reports that boating accidents in the first 6 ½ months of 2019 have killed 25 people. Already, that makes this year the deadliest one since 1998, when 32 people died. The number of deaths so far this…
ALICEVILLE, Ala. (AP) – Police in west Alabama say a person whose body was found after a police shooting was dead before the officers fired. Aliceville Police Chief Tonnie Jones tells the Tuscaloosa News that the driver had a dead body in a stolen car. He tells WTVM-TV that an officer fired at the car Friday but did not hit…
JASPER, Ala. (AP) – Live stand-ins for Santa’s reindeer won’t be allowed to come into Alabama this year, as part of the state’s precautions against a deadly deer disease. So far, there hasn’t been any chronic wasting disease in Alabama, and the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants to keep it that way. The Daily Mountain Eagle reports…
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) – The Alabama college professor who wrote Neil Armstrong’s authorized biography is working on another book dealing with the first person to walk on the moon. A release from Auburn University says professor emeritus James Hansen is finishing a book that will include letters written to the Apollo 11 astronaut. The title is “Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters…
