At the Alabama Community College System board of trustees meeting on Wednesday, Chancellor Jimmy H. Baker announced the selection of Todd Shackett as president of Southern Union State Community College. Shackett’s appointment was unanimously approved by the board of trustees. The selection was made after a 10-month strategic planning process designed to culminate with the selection of a permanent president at…
Mainly sunny and hot with little heat relief from showers and storms as drier air has moved in from the east. Rain chances are not zero, but they are very low, and any showers and storms which develop will be isolated. The best chance for rain will be in western portions of the state. Highs this afternoon should reach the…
Hundreds of women riding motorcycles have converged on the Capital City. They’re called Motor Maids. They have come from all over North America for an annual convention. Motor Maids, Inc. has been around for 77 years with conventions held each year in a different city. The organization has more than 1300 members. We met women from as far away as Canada….
A bill proposed by U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Alabama) would require the government to release records from unsolved criminal cases linked to the civil-rights era. Jones says existing laws don’t go far enough to require the release of documents from the period. A statement from Jones’ office says the bill would require officials to gather and release records from unsolved…
Drier air will slip into the state from the east so we are going to lower our rain chances today and Wednesday. Both days will be partly to mostly sunny, hot, and humid. Afternoon showers and storms should be pretty widely spaced; the chance of any one spot getting wet on these two days is around 20 percent. Moisture will…
Many Alabama News Network viewers have asked what they can do to help the daughters who survived their family’s murder-suicide tragedy in Elmore County over the weekend. According to Elmore Co. Sheriff Bill Franklin, Robert “Bob” Orsi shot and killed his wife, shot his triplet 12-year-old daughters, killing one of them, before setting the house on fire and apparently shooting…
Senior Political Reporter Tim Lennox sat down for a “Face to Face” with District 6 Montgomery School Board candidate, Claudia Mitchell. Mitchell is running for public office for the first time. She is going up against current school board president, Robert Porterfield, in a runoff election. Categories: Face 2 Face
THE WEEK AHEAD: Little change in the forecast for much of the week ahead. The stalled front will slowly dissipate, but we will remain in a very humid airmass all week. Each day, sunshine will allow for sufficient instability for scattered showers and storms. Once again, no way of knowing in advance when and where these will develop, just know…
Alabama News Network is following a heartbreaking story from Elmore County. Three people are dead, including one child, while two other children are recovering from injuries in what’s being called a murder-suicide involving a family member. Elmore Co. Sheriff Bill Franklin told Alabama News Network that it started as a marital dispute at a home in the Stonegate subdivision in…
Alabama will begin collecting online sales taxes on Oct. 1. The Alabama Department of Revenue announced the move in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax. The state in 2016 established regulations that remote retailers with more than $250,000 in sales in Alabama should pay tax in…
