The Montgomery County School Board voted no Tuesday to a contract offer that would have put the charter schools conversion in motion. Members of the board said they did not have enough time to review a copy of the contract before making a decision. The school board had 60 days to approve the contract but did not get a copy…
A contract to convert some Montgomery Public Schools into charter schools failed to pass at a meeting of the Montgomery County school board this afternoon. The proposed contract was presented by the Montgomery Education Foundation. MEF had received approval by the state department of education to create the first conversion charter schools by the fall. Now it appears there will…
Alabama News Network has learned that an escapee from Montgomery has been recaptured. The Alabama Department of Corrections says 48-year-old Fleurette Esmerelda Martin was caught around 7:30 this morning in Birmingham by the Birmingham Police Department. Martin was reported missing after corrections officials say she left her assigned job location at approximately 1:00 Monday morning. She had been sentenced in 2008 to…
The publisher and editor of The Democrat-Reporter newspaper in the Marengo County town of Linden is coming under fire for an editorial he wrote that calls for the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan as a way to clean up politics in Washington. The editorial begins with the line: “Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again.” It…
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RAINY, COOL TUESDAY: Rain becomes widespread across Alabama today as the front over South Alabama begins to creep northward as a warm front. Today will still be very cool over much of the state with a high only in the low to mid 50s. PERIODS OF RAIN: The warm front continues moving north by midweek and as it does, it…
Organizers of the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma have announced the names of more people who will be coming to this year’s event from across the country. The list includes potential 2020 presidential candidates. “We expect five or six presidential candidates, a number of national civil rights leaders as well as other national leaders,” former state senator and organizer…
The lawyer for a Randolph County High School teacher accused of raping a 15-year-old student is asking for a reduction in his client’s $1.5 million bond. David Brenton Burkhalter, 30, is on administrative leave from his teaching job after his arrest last week on eight felony charges. Burkhalter was being held at the Randolph County Jail. His lawyer, Richard C….
Montgomery police responded to a call of a subject shot in 1700 block of Pine Street about 1:30 AM. There, an adult male was located suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound. The shooting was found to have occurred in the 900 block of S. Lawrence Street. The male victim declined to prosecute and there is no further information available for release…
The Alabama Dept. of Corrections says it’s looking for an escapee from Montgomery. They say 48-year-old Fleurette Esmerelda Martin left her assigned job location at approximately 1:00 this morning. Martin is 5’5″ tall and 136 pounds. She had been sentenced in 2008 to a 13-year term for robbery in Jefferson County. She was serving her sentence at the Montgomery Women’s Facility….
