The Montgomery Police Department is conducting a homicide investigation following the Friday morning shooting death of Timothy Martinez, 26, of Montgomery. MPD and Fire Medics responded to the 1600 block of Dale Drive shortly after midnight Friday, June 15, in reference to a possible shooting. At the scene, they located Martinez, who had sustained a fatal gunshot wound. He was…
Auburn University has raised its tuition following increases at other colleges in Alabama. A statement from Auburn’s president’s office in a Thursday report says the school’s Board of Trustees decided to hold the tuition increase for fall 2019 at 2 percent. Auburn’s tuition has gone up by 3 percent each year since 2016. The board approved the increase for the…
Alabama’s unemployment rate is up slightly from a month ago. The state says the May jobless rate was 3.9 percent, up one-tenth of a percent from a month earlier. That rate is far below the rate of 4.6 percent from a year earlier, but it’s one-tenth of a percent higher than the national unemployment rate. Despite the increase, the state…
FRIDAY AND THE WEEKEND: The overall weather pattern doesn’t change much and you can expect more of the the same. We will forecast a mix of sun and clouds with scattered showers and thunderstorms, with the greatest coverage between 1:00 and 11:00PM, but with such a moist air mass in place, we can’t totally rule out a late night or…
The City of Montgomery is making a plan to be more compliant with the Americans with Disability Act. And they want the public’s input to find out where the city can improve. “We’ve got stairs that go from the street to the sidewalk instead of ramps and no sidewalks in some areas,” said Gene Gunter. Gene Gunter says he is…
District Attorney Daryl Bailey announced today that Ozzy Osborne, 27, of Montgomery, will serve nearly three decades in prison. 15th Circuit Court Judge, Roman Shaul, sentenced Osborne to 359 months (29 years and 11 months) for the murder of 30 year-old Rodrekas Zeigler. On September 11, 2015, Osborne shot Zeigler once in the neck at a barber shop located off…
A proposal in Congress to ease the U.S. ban on marijuana could encourage more banks to do business with cannabis companies. But it appears to fall short of a comprehensive fix for an industry often forced to conduct business in cash in a credit card world. Pot is legal in some form in about 30 states, but companies that grow…
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill briefed political reporters today, including Alabama News Network’s Tim Lennox, about issues involved in voter registration and voting. Merrill says sometime in coming weeks he’ll be sending out a news release about a million voters being added to the registration lists since January 19, 2015, though he says some names have also been…
New York’s attorney general sued President Donald Trump and his foundation Thursday, accusing him of illegally using the charity’s money to settle disputes involving his business empire and to promote his political fortunes during his run for the White House. The president blasted the case as politically motivated. The lawsuit seeks $2.8 million in restitution, additional unspecified penalties and the…
A story circulating online falsely suggests the head of the Alabama Democratic Party has recently been arrested. The stories posted this week on sites called Conservative Army and Right Wing News says that Alabama Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley was “recently” in legal trouble after being indicted for several felonies and misdemeanors and had been hauled away in handcuffs. Efforts…
