“When we are in the financial problems that we have right now…. it totally blows my mind.” MPS board member Lesa Keith vents her frustration after learning the rest of the board may have already made a plan without her. “The board has already made decision as to who the next superintendent will be, which will be Dr. Ann Roy…
The Montgomery Police Department has arrested a Montgomery man in the shooting death of Damion Clarke, 28, who was fatally shot Sunday January 7, after a verbal dispute. MPD charged Clyde Jones, 25, with capital murder after he was taken into custody by detectives on April 26. Following his arrest, Jones was transported to the Montgomery County Detention Facility, where he…
Police say a student made a video threatening an Alabama high school and posted it on social media. Montgomery Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Martha Earnhardt says that the female student was taken into custody Wednesday evening. The video posted on Facebook shows the student making a threat to cause harm at Jeff Davis High School. The student’s identity has…
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the “Cosby Show” star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked on the charges. Cosby was…
A group of nearly three dozen people have left Minnesota on a long bus ride to Alabama to attend the opening day of a new national memorial highlighting the history of lynching in the United States. Minnesota Public Radio reports that the Duluth group is attending the Thursday opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama….
Authorities say a man fell to his death while inspecting a ride at a fair in Alabama. Reports say the death happened Wednesday afternoon at the Kiwanis Club Fair in Alexander City. Tallapoosa County Coroner Mike Knox says the 45-year-old man from Belarus fell about 30 feet (9 meters) from the “Ring of Fire” ride after performing a safety inspection….
The public is getting its first look at a lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened Thursday. It commemorates 4,400 black people who lost their lives in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Their names, where known, are engraved on 800 steel rectangles, one for each U.S. county where lynchings…
Today will be mainly cloudy and you should expect a wet day with widespread rain, and there will also be a slight chance of thunderstorms. The best rain chances for most will be in the morning through midday. The SPC has introduced a “marginal risk” for severe storms for much of Central Georgia and that area does extend into far…
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the office manager of a Montgomery daycare center has been sentenced for electronic solicitation of a child. Deggi Hardwick, 34, was sentenced to 10 years, which was suspended, and a term of five years of supervised probation. The Attorney General’s Office had requested that he be sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment but…
Authorities are searching for a missing child. Jabrelle Rogers, 11, was last seen at 11:30 a.m. in the 4400 block of Clemice Lane in Montgomery on Sunday, April 22. It is unknown what clothing Jabrelle was wearing at the time she ran away. She is described as being 4’6 in height and weighing approximately 100 pounds. If you know the…
