Tuscaloosa police say a substitute teacher is jailed on a charge of having a sexual relationship with a student. A statement from police says 54-year-old Meta Lovely of Duncanville surrendered Wednesday. She is being held on $30,000 bond on a charge of having sex with a student less than 19 years old. Lovely worked as a substitute teacher at Bryant…
Governor Kay Ivey has awarded a $750,000 grant to improve infrastructure in Prattville and pave the way for a new industry that will employ more than 200 people. James Hardie Building Products Inc., a world-wide manufacturer of fiber-cement building materials, will construct a $220-million plant on a 103-acre site in Prattville South Industrial Park. “Jobs continue to be a priority…
Memorial Day travel is up by 6% according to TripAdvisor’s Annual Memorial Day Travel Survey. Nearly one-third will be traveling this weekend up from 24% last year. Of those traveling, 74% will be driving and 32% will be flying to their destinations. Even though air travel is also up by 6%, 90% of travelers said that the increase in gasoline…
MUGGY MAY WEATHER: Little change in the day to day forecast this time of year. For the rest of this week, expect partly sunny, very warm and muggy days with scattered showers and storms on a daily basis, mainly during the afternoon and evening hours, but some showers and storms are possible during the morning and late night hours. Highs…
While the gubernatorial race is in full swing, political analyst Steve Flowers says it’s been a fairly quiet race since it started. “With two weeks to go, the polling is about where it was when they started about 2 or 3 months ago. Kay Ivey started way ahead in the polls and she continues to have a large lead in…
Governor Kay Ivey announced on Tuesday that the Alabama travel industry grew by $1 billion in 2017, to a record of $14.3 billion in expenditures, and increased jobs by 7,399 to some 186,906 employees. The industry grew by 7 percent and attracted an additional 810,000 visitors to top 26 million guests for the first time in state history.  “Every part of…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is opposing parole for a woman convicted of killing a Georgia teenager more than 35 years ago. Ivey is urging the state’s parole board to reject an early release for Judith Ann Neelley. Members are scheduled to consider her case on Wednesday. Neelley was convicted with her husband of killing 13-year-old Lisa Ann Millican, who was…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks, R-Alabama, have jointly filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the Census Bureau’s unlawful decision to include illegal aliens in census data used to determine the apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Electoral College. “If the U.S. Census Bureau follows through with its plan to include…
It’s the end of the school year and time to announce our Golden Apple Educator of the Year, and you the viewers have selected Cicely Curtis from the School of Discover in Selma. We first met Mrs. Curtis back in April, after one of her student submitted a heartfelt nomination on why, as the principal of the School of Discovery…
RINSE AND REPEAT FORECAST: Little change in the day to day forecast this time of year. The only real difference will come whether or not you get rain at your location, and the exact time it occurs. For the rest of this week, it will be fairly routine late May weather as the air mass will not be changing. Expect…
