A judge has increased the bail for three adults arrested after Alabama authorities found a 13-year-old boy naked and chained at home. Autauga County District Judge Joy Booth doubled bond to $30,000 each Monday during an initial hearing for the adults, all are close relatives of the youth. Each is charged with child abuse. Police acting on a tip went…
THE NEXT FEW DAYS: Clockwise flow around a high pressure to our east is pumping ample Gulf moisture into the state and an approaching front will enhance uplift for the next several days. We will forecast mostly cloudy weather through Friday with occasional and numerous showers and thunderstorms. While they will be most active during the afternoon and evening hours,…
Katie Griffies was 31 years old and 29 weeks pregnant when she found a lump and texture changes in her breast. She went to the doctor and found out it was stage three inflammatory breast cancer. But she says she also heard something else. “For me, I am a child of God. So when I heard you have cancer, I…
Gubernatorial challenger Walt Maddox says Alabama, once a leader in providing mental health care, is now in a mental health care crisis. Maddox says the state has a dire shortage of mental health services. He’s reiterating his support for expanding Medicaid to boost the state health care network. The Democratic nominee opposing Republican Gov. Kay Ivey spoke Monday during a…
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Selma police are investigating two shooting deaths in a city where a police officer was also shot and wounded. Selma Police Chief Spencer Collier says officers were called around 10:30 p.m. Sunday to a shooting behind an elementary school. Collier says a man in his early 20s was found shot to death in a vehicle. He says there is nothing…
THE WEEK AHEAD: The weather looks rather unsettled for much of the week; the sky will be occasionally cloudy each day with scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms. Rain distribution will be rather uneven, but it certainly looks like a week where many places will see a good chance of getting some needed rain thanks to a moist, unstable air…
Ozark Safety Services LLC – based in Montgomery – has paid a former employee $10,095 in lost wages after a U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation found the company violated the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). WHD investigators found Ozark Safety Services LLC discharged the employee for absences that qualified for FMLA-protected leave. Rather than categorizing the…
Shortly after 8:00 a.m. Friday, Montgomery police received a 9-1-1 call from an anonymous male reporting that a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun was on campus at Bellingrath Middle School. Police responded quickly but found no threat. MPD developed a suspect and they have now arrested a 13-year-old male student from Southlawn Middle who was not…
Authorities say someone fired shots at a courthouse in Alabama. Reports say that several windows at the Montgomery County Courthouse were shattered by gunfire early Friday morning. Chief Deputy Kevin Murphy says the incident happened around 2:06 a.m. when someone drove up and unleashed gunfire. Authorities have not been able to locate shell casings and do not have any suspects…
