Montgomery police have arrested a dozen people on drug charges. Police say the suspects face multiple felony charges after officers conducted searches. They say a large amount of drugs and weapons was seized during the operation. Police identify the suspect as Harvey Knight, 40, Devoisier Nettles, 41, Joshua Knight, 34, Prince Avery, 29, Deandre McGill, 27, Tony Ballard, 31, Kivotto…
An Alabama prison guard has been arrested and charged with trying to smuggle illegal items into a prison. The Alabama Corrections Department said in a news release Thursday that an officer at the Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore was arrested Thursday. Thirty-four-year-old Tony Williams of Frisco City was also charged with use of office for personal gain. The department said…
Alabama’s unemployment rate dipped slightly last month. State officials said Friday the jobless rate was 4 percent of the workforce in November. That’s down from 4.1 percent in October. The national jobless rate in November was 3.7 percent. The November 2017 rate in Alabama was 3.8 percent. State officials say the jobless rate last month represented about 87,800 unemployed persons….
The Alabama Department of Education announced it has approved the conversion of four Montgomery public schools into charter schools over the next several years. School Board member Lesa Keith says she is all for it. “It’s time to move Montgomery forward. It’s not just about education. It’s about the city. People were leaving. Maxwell Air Force Base is upset. I…
Rodrick Bagby will serve 85 years in prison for the shooting death of Nathan Dasher in June 2014. A judge handed the down the sentence Thursday. The shooting happened during a robbery. According to Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey Bagby killed Dasher after telling his co-defendant that he was going to rob someone and “dome check” them; meaning we…
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A rural Alabama police department that used social media to scold community members for rejecting God is coming under fire from a group that opposes mixing government and religious faith. A statement posted on Facebook by the Opp Police Department on Tuesday blames a spike in area homicides on the idea that young people have turned away from God and…
Officials say the flu is widespread across Alabama except for its southeastern Wiregrass Region. News outlets cite state Public Health Department maps in Wednesday reports as showing that flu activity levels are slightly higher than usual during this time. Flu season doesn’t peak until January, but the department’s weekly flu report shows last week’s activity was reported to the Centers…
Alabama’s attorney general is opposing a bond reduction request for a man charged in the Thanksgiving night gunfire that led to a fatal police shooting in a shopping mall. Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office writes in a court document that Erron Brown’s bond should remain at $125,000 because he had help fleeing to Georgia after the shooting and has a…
Alabama Sen. Doug Jones says he was unaware of an experiment run by outside researchers during his campaign seeking to emulate Russian tactics to influence elections. The Washington Post and New York Times have both reported that a social media researcher acknowledged testing misleading online tactics during Jones’ campaign against Republican Roy Moore last year. The effort was modeled on…
