Mike Hubbard is sworn in during Hubbard’s ethics trial on Tuesday, June 7, 2016 in Opelika, Ala.Todd J. Van Emst/Opelika-Auburn News/Pool Alabama lawmakers pass a proposed ethics law change that would exempt economic development activity from the rules governing lobbyists. The House of Representatives approved the bill 78-7 after three hours of heated debate. State Rep. Ken Johnson, a Republican,…
Alabama lawmakers may require more secure covers on restaurant grease pits after a little girl’s death in Auburn. The House of Representatives voted 99-0 for the bill that would require locking manhole covers on the traps. The bill is named the Sadie Grace Andrews Act after the 3-year-old who died in the accident last year. The child drowned after she…
The counter-clockwise flow around an East Coast storm will cause a strong north breeze to usher in colder air today and the rest of the week. Today the sky will be ma sunny with a high only in the upper 50s, ten degrees below average for early March in Alabama. We are still projecting early morning lows in the close…
It was a heated council meeting Tuesday night as the Montgomery City Council voted to reinstate a controversial judge. “The time is up for all of y’all, and the time is up for this white supremacist!” yelled Karen Jones from the podium. Montgomery Municipal Judge Lester Hayes was suspended without pay for 11 months last year for jailing defendants who…
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the office manager of a Montgomery daycare center has been convicted for electronic solicitation of a child. Deggi Hardwick, 34, pleaded guilty this morning in Montgomery County Circuit Court to the class B felony. The daycare center, JAAD’s Child Care, is owned by Hardwick’s family. The Attorney General’s Office had obtained a court order…
Our Political Analyst, Tim Lennox sat down for a Face to Face with former Tuskegee Mayor and District 82 House of Representative candidate, Johnny Ford, to talk about the race for the House seat held by Pebblin Warren. Categories: Face 2 Face
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is creating a school safety council to make recommendations on securing schools in the wake of the deadly shooting in Florida. Ivey signed the executive order on Tuesday in a press conference. Ivey said the council will make sure that schools have an updated security response plan as well as plans for sharing information about potential…
A federal watchdog says White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway violated the federal law prohibiting government officials from using their positions to influence political campaigns. The Office of Special Counsel, which is unrelated to Robert Mueller’s office, says Conway violated the Hatch Act twice last year when she advocated for Republican Roy Moore and against his Democratic rival, Sen. Doug Jones,…
The well-known Blackfinn Ameripub restaurant has closed at the Shoppes at EastChase in Montgomery. Suzanna Wasserman, a spokesperson for the Shoppes at EastChase, confirmed Blackfinn’s closure, but no reason for the closing was given. Blackfinn opened in EastChase three years ago, and was the only location in Alabama. The chain has about 10 other locations, the nearest are in Charlotte,…
A lawyer for an Alabama inmate whose lethal injection was halted after staffers could not connect an intravenous line says his client should not face a second date in the death chamber. An attorney for Doyle Lee Hamm wrote in state and court filings Monday that Hamm had experienced “torture” during the failed attempt to execute him Feb. 22. Bernard…
