FOR FRIDAY: A surface front will approach Alabama late today and tonight, but moisture is very limited, and there is little dynamic support. So, for now it looks like tomorrow will be partly to mostly sunny with only isolated showers late in the afternoon into the evening hours, and mainly over the northern quarter of the state. The high today…
It was a day full of testimonies from a detective that lead the SBI investigation to an officer who had a run in with Greg Gunn years ago. But perhaps the biggest testimony was from Aaron Smith himself. He was on trial for over an hour, calm with little or no emotion, retelling what happened in the early morning hours…
Selma City Schools officials says thieves have struck two schools, causing about $200,000 worth of damage. Reports say the Selma city school district said the suspects targeted air conditioning units and ripped out the copper lines at R.B. Hudson Middle School and Sophia P. Kingston Elementary School. At Hudson, the thieves used a ladder to reach the roof where they…
The Alabama Historical Commission has obtained a 1950’s era Greyhound bus to be used as part of the Freedom Rides Museum in Downtown Montgomery. The bus was donated by the Greyhound Museum in Minnesota. Commission officials hope to have the restoration work completed in time for the 2021 60th anniversary of the day 22 Freedom Rider/college students from Nashville were…
A white Montgomery police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man is asking a judge to rule that he’s immune from prosecution. Circuit Judge Greg Griffin has scheduled a hearing Thursday, July 26, to consider the request by officer Aaron Cody Smith. He’s set for trial next month in the 2016 killing of 58-year-old…
THURSDAY-SATURDAY: Not much change today or tomorrow compared to Wednesday; both days will be mainly sunny and dry. A weak front will approach from the north, but with only limited moisture and dynamic support, it looks like we won’t see much more than widely scattered showers Friday evening ahead of the front. Saturday looks generally dry with a good supply…
Defeated Senate candidate Roy Moore has filed a defamation lawsuit against a super PAC that ran an advertising blitz focused on sexual misconduct accusations against him during the campaign. Moore’s attorney Melissa Isaak announced the lawsuit against Highway 31 and related individuals on Wednesday. Isaak said the group ran defamatory ads during the 2017 race. A spokesman for Highway 31…
On Wednesday, July 25, another Alabama legislator was arrested in a pending public corruption case involving the owner of a chain of diabetes treatment clinics, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. State Representative Randall M. “Randy” Davis, 66, of Daphne, is the new defendant in this case and was charged in a superseding indictment, along with co-defendants G….
Maryon Pittman Allen, one of only two women to serve as a U.S. senator from Alabama, has died. Allen’s nephew, state Sen. Trip Pittman, says his aunt died Monday. She was 92. Allen was a journalist who married state politician Jim Allen, who died while serving in the Senate in 1978. Then-Gov. George Wallace appointed Allen to fill her husband’s…
The Alabama Department of Corrections is investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred at the Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton on Tuesday. At approximately 4:45 p.m., prison officials found Alonzo Muntez Sykes, 29, unresponsive inside a facility dorm with multiple stab wounds. Medical staff administered CPR but Sykes succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead by a physician at 5 p.m. Officials have…
