A stalled frontal boundary across Central Alabama will cause numerous showers and storms to occur over South/Central Alabama this afternoon. Otherwise, expect a mix of sun and clouds with hot and humid conditions with highs in the lower 90s. USA BRIEF: A blazing heat wave will consume much of the southern Plains and lower Mississippi River Valley through early next…
We’re looking ahead to November’s elections now that the runoffs are over and whether the Republicans will be able to hold on to the state offices. Political analyst Steve Flowers says Democrats will have an uphill battle in November. Many of the statewide offices will have Republican incumbents. One of those races is the Governor’s race with Kay Ivey and…
Senior Political Reporter Tim Lennox sat down for a “Face to Face” with Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture candidate, Rick Pate. Pate is the current mayor of Lowndesboro. Categories: Face 2 Face
As Alabama News Network has reported, State Rep. John Knight (D-Montgomery) says he had problems while trying to vote in the state runoffs on Tuesday. Apparently, he wasn’t alone. Alabama Sec. of State John Merrill confirms to Alabama News Network nearly two dozen people in Montgomery had similar problems at the polls. Knight is a Democrat and wanted to vote…
Demopolis police say a man’s body has been discovered. Police Chief Tommie Reese tells Alabama News Network that the body of 36-year-old Joseph Knowles, Jr, was found in a wooded part of a yard on Wild Honey Court Monday afternoon. The body was sent to the State Department of Forensics for an autopsy. Officials say a forensics report shows that…
Police say a man has been arrested in connection to a triple murder in Alabama. Guntersville Police told WAFF-TV that 52-year-old Jimmy O’Neal Spencer was Tuesday arrested on four counts of capital murder. The bodies of 74-year-old Marie Kitchens Martin and her 7-year-old great-grandson, Colton Ryan Lee, were found in a home on Friday, and 65-year-old neighbor Martha Reliford in…
FRONT DROPPING SOUTH: A frontal boundary is dropping south across the Tennessee Valley today and will allow for showers and storms to develop through the day. You know the routine, any storm today, like we see each afternoon and evening, will produce frequent lightning and very heavy rainfall, which can cause areas of isolated flash flooding. Always to remember TURN…
Will Ainsworth won the Lt Governor’s race. Twinkle Cavanaugh had won the primary with 43% of the vote. But did not pull it out this time. She’s been Alabama Public Service Commission president since 2012. She was once chair of the Alabama Republican Party. Last year, when she first started to run she was running to be governor and decided…
In another sign of the dissatisfaction with the performance of Montgomery Public Schools, another school board member has gone down in defeat. This time, it was school board President Robert Porterfield. Porterfield was defeated by challenger Claudia Mitchell in the Democratic runoff for District 6. His defeat adds to that of board member Melissa Snowden, who lost her Republican primary…
State Rep. Will Ainsworth has defeated Alabama Public Service Commission President Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in a race that got raucous down the stretch. The 37-year-old Ainsworth ran commercials playing on Cavanaugh’s unusual first name and calling her a career politician. Cavanaugh led all candidates for lieutenant governor in fundraising with nearly $1.1 million…
