On Friday, the Delta Regional Authority (DRA), through a program partnership with the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), announced a $75,000 investment to help build a high-speed Wi-Fi network in downtown Selma. Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-AL) releases the following statement: “Universal high-speed internet is not only possible, but it is necessary to the survival of rural America,” said Rep….
FOR FRIDAY: After the frigid start to the day, expect another day full of sunshine, but once again it stays unseasonably cold with temperatures 10-15 degrees below average; Friday’s high will be in the lower and mid 40s. STRANGE CLOUDS ARE CIRCLING ANTARCTICA: NASA’s AIM spacecraft is monitoring a vast ring of noctilucent (night-shining) clouds circling Antarctica. These strange clouds,…
A woman who says failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore molested her when she was 14 has filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore and his campaign. Leigh Corfman filed the lawsuit Thursday. The suit says Moore and his campaign defamed her and made false statements as they denied the accusations in the midst of the U.S. Senate race in Alabama….
The final season of “Game of Thrones” will feature veterans of the show behind the scenes when it airs in 2019. HBO said Thursday that David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik will direct and Benioff and Weiss along with Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill will write the episodes. They will collaborate on the six-episode, eighth and last…
Congressmen Bradley Byrne (R-AL) and Drew Ferguson (R-GA) today announced a friendly wager on the College Football Playoff National Championship Game between the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. Ferguson is staking Chick-fil-a on a Bulldog victory, and Byrne is risking Alabama seafood for a Crimson Tide win. Congressman Byrne said: “We saw a mean, aggressive, and inspired Alabama team…
Sears Holdings Corp. will be closing over 100 more stores as the struggling department store chain tries to turn around its business. The Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based company says that includes 64 Kmart stores and 39 Sears stores that will be shuttered between early March and early April. Liquidation sales will begin as soon as next Friday at the stores. A…
Justice Glenn Murdock is stepping down from the Alabama Supreme Court. Murdoch announced his resignation Thursday in a letter to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. Murdock said his resignation will be effective on Jan. 16. The retiring associate justice wrote in his letter to Ivey that he wanted to “explore other professional opportunities and other ways in which I might be…
The Internal Revenue Service announced today that the nation’s tax season will begin Monday, January 29 and reminded taxpayers claiming certain tax credits that refunds won’t be available before late February. The IRS will begin accepting tax returns on January 29, with nearly 155 million individual tax returns expected to be filed in 2018. The nation’s tax deadline will be April 17 this year…
The Alabama prison system is asking lawmakers for an additional $80 million over the next two years to boost staffing and comply with a federal court order to improve mental health care to inmates. Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn told lawmakers Thursday that the system needs a $30 million supplement this year and a $50 million increase in 2019. A federal…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era policy that allowed legal marijuana to flourish in states across the country. In a memo Thursday, Sessions says federal prosecutors should decide on their own whether to devote resources to marijuana cases based on other demands in their districts. Sessions writes in the one-page memo that “prosecutors should follow the well-established principles…
