Attorneys representing former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore say they have filed claims for slander and defamation against Leigh Corfman, and demanded a trial by jury. Corfman filed a lawsuit against Moore in January, accusing him of making unwanted sexual advances at her when she was 14, and he was 32. She says Moore and his 2017 U.S. Senate campaign…
Federal judges will hear arguments Tuesday appealing an overturned law that let judges put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like process and appoint a lawyer for the fetus in Alabama. A 2014 law changed the process that allows minors to get an abortion with a judge’s waiver instead of parental consent. It allowed the judge to appoint a lawyer for…
A drier air mass moves into the area today; we start our Tuesday off in the lower 50s, but the sky will begin to clear and we should see a mix of sun and clouds with a high in the lower 70s. A clear sky tonight means a cold night ahead. SPACE LIGHTNING OVER EUROPE: Red sprites (a.k.a. “space lightning”)…
Our Golden Apple Award Winner this week comes from the Covington County School System. In her 4th year of teaching, 6th grade math teach Shanda Gordon at Straughn Middle School, believes her teaching method works great for her students. “Lots of question, I don’t like, if I am doing all the work, they aren’t leaning anything. So if I am…
A tiny species of fish could be threatened with extinction if the huge Toyota-Mazda plant is built just west of Huntsville. That’s according to an environmental group that plans to go to court to save the fish. The Spring Pygmy Sunfish is about an inch long. The Center for Biological Diversity says it only exists in a spring in Limestone County that…
Investigators in Butler County are searching for new leads in a double murder investigation. Ladarious Lymon and Javon Banks, both 22 years old, were both found dead in a car on Airport Road in October. Butler County Sheriff Kenny Harden says investigators have followed up on several leads, but no arrests have been made. Gov. Kay Ivey has announced a…
Roy Moore and his legal team have filed a petition for Writ of Mandamus with the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. They are asking the court to order the Montgomery County Circuit Court to transfer the case filed against Moore to Etowah County where both the plaintiff and he live. The plaintiff, Leigh Corfman, filed a lawsuit in January, accusing Moore of making unwanted…
Funeral arrangements have been announced for Rev. Dr. Fredrick Douglas Reese, a civil rights leader who was well known in Selma and elsewhere across the country. Reese died Thursday in Atlanta at the age of 88. Reese was one of the local leaders of the Selma Voting Rights Movement of 1965, inviting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Selma in…
District Attorney Randall Houston says Jesse Madison Holton of Eclectic has been indicted by an Elmore County grand jury for the murder of his parents, April and Mike Holton. Holton was originally indicted in October 2017 for the murder of his father, Mike Holton. That original indictment will be dismissed and Holton is now charged with two counts of murder,…
Courtesy of Kat West Facebook page A former police officer charged with murder in the death of his exhibitionist wife has pleaded not guilty, and the victim’s mother says she believes him. William Jeffrey West entered the plea Monday during a hearing in Columbiana, Alabama. He’s charged in the January death of Kathleen Dawn West, whose partially clothed body was…
