A South Carolina woman who won $878 million in the biggest jackpot payout to one winner in U.S. history says she wants to give back to the city and state where her good fortune happened. The woman issued a statement through her lawyer Thursday saying she was giving money to the City of Simpsonville Art Center, the One SC Fund…
An Alabama inmate who refused food and drink during what he said was unjustified solitary confinement has ended his hunger strike. According to reports, Robert Earl Council started the hunger strike last week at Holman Correctional Facility. Council’s attorney, David Gespass, says Council was moved Tuesday to Kilby Correctional Facility, where he is being medically examined and is expected to…
You don’t have to travel far into Lee County before running into flattened homes, and piles of debris. Still less than two weeks after a devastating EF-4 tornado tore through the area, we’re still getting more first hand looks at the widespread devastation in Beauregard and surrounding communities. Wednesday, chief meteorologists from Alabama News Network and Bluewater Broadcasting surveyed some…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has announced that she will be bringing her 2020 presidential campaign to Selma. Her campaign has announced that the Selma stop will be part of a campaign tour of Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. Her stop in Selma is scheduled for Tuesday, March 19. Other details haven’t been announced. The tour will begin in Memphis, Tennessee, on…
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RAIN/STORMS RETURN: All eyes are looking west at the very powerful storm system making its across the Plains, heading towards the Upper Midwest today. On the north and west side of the storm, blizzard conditions with hurricane force wind gusts are ongoing, while on the south and east side of the system, in the warm sector, severe storms are expected…
The Buy Alabama’s Best Campaign formed in 2006. Four Alabama companies, the Alabama Grocer Association, and the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries saw a need to identify products made in Alabama. Since then the Buy Alabama’s Best campaign has grown to include more than 50 companies that grown, produce, or manufacture their food products in Alabama. State leaders say…
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been indicted in New York on state charges, seen as a strategy for preventing a potential presidential pardon. A federal judge has sentenced Paul Manafort to more than 3 1/2 additional years in prison. That’s on top of the roughly four-year sentence he received in a separate case in Virginia last week….
President Donald Trump has had it with the #fakeMelania conspiracy theories that have been circulating on social media. Trump claims that photos of his wife were altered to make it appear that a look-alike accompanied him to Alabama last week to survey tornado damage. Trump’s favorite TV program, Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” reported on the body double theory Wednesday,…
A handful of Verizon customers will soon have faster wireless service – but they’ll have to pay $10 a month more. Verizon says it’ll flip the switch next month on a much-hyped, next-generation “5G” phone network . Service will start in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis. The offer is available only on unlimited plans, which currently start at $75 for…
