Leandra English, the deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who unsuccessfully sued President Donald Trump for control of the consumer watchdog agency, said Friday she plans to resign next week. English was the chief of staff for Richard Cordray, President Barack Obama’s director of the bureau. She was promoted to deputy director shortly before Cordray resigned in late…
The Demopolis Police Department announced that 19 drug dealers have been arrested in an undercover investigation dubbed “Operation Street Sweeper.” Demopolis Public Safety Director Tommie Reese said this operation has been ongoing for the past two years in the City of Demopolis, Alabama by the department. These defendants are charged with the illegal distribution of one or more of the…
Shortly after 11:00AM on July 4, the Trussville Police Department received a call of a dog inside a vehicle with the engine not running. The vehicle was parked in the parking lot of the Walmart located at 5919 Trussville Crossings Parkway. Officers responded to the scene and found a dog alive in an older model Mercedes, with all of the doors locked. Officers…
A front will be approaching the area on the last day of the work week, that will mean we will have an increase in rain chances, especially for northern portions of the state. We will have some sun with scattered showers and thunderstorms, becoming more active in the afternoon hours. A few storms could become strong with gusty winds as…
Senior Political Reporter Tim Lennox sat down for a “Face to Face” with District 2 Congressional candidate, Bobby Bright. Bright is the former mayor of Montgomery. He is in a July 17 Republican runoff with U.S. Rep. Martha Roby for her 2nd District Congressional seat. Categories: Face 2 Face
The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans’ health and address climate change. Andrew Wheeler, the No. 2 official at EPA, will take over as acting administrator Monday now that embattled administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned. The Senate confirmed Wheeler as the agency’s…
President Donald Trump says he has accepted the resignation of scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. Pruitt had become a constant source of embarrassment to a president who had entered Washington promising to “Drain the Swamp.” Pruitt has faced an array of ethical questions about his travel spending, security costs, dealings with industry lobbyists and misuse of government resources….
A dog died after being left for hours in a hot car in Alabama, and police say they plan to file charges against the owner. Video shared on social media shows a crowd gathered around a silver car parked outside a Walmart store in the Birmingham suburb of Trussville on Wednesday. At least one person attempts to open the car…
Octavious Hampton The Montgomery Police Department has arrested a Montgomery man in the shooting death of Charlayne Washington, 20. Washington was fatally wounded Wednesday afternoon in a domestic dispute. MPD charged Octavius Hampton, 24, with murder after he was taken into custody at the scene. Following his arrest, Hampton was transported to the Montgomery County Detention Facility, where he is…
TODAY/TOMORROW: Not much change for the rest of the week. Whether you have to head back to work, or you have the rest of the week off, you can expect morning sunshine, then scattered, hit or miss showers and storms in the afternoons. No way of knowing in advance when and where the storms pop up, but as we see…
