The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would require police to collect data on traffic stops to prevent racial profiling. The bill by state Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Democrat from Birmingham, would require officers to record the race of a person pulled over in a traffic stop. Police would submit data annually to the state attorney general’s office. Smitherman,…
An investigator says the charter bus involved in a fatal crash in Alabama was new and making only its second trip. Pete Kotowski of the National Transportation Safety Board briefed the media on the early stages of the investigation Wednesday. Authorities say bus driver Harry Caligone was the only person to die in the crash, which happened early Tuesday on…
Two suspects wanted in connection with a shooting in Selma that injured a 3-year-old child are in police custody. Police say Kentrevious Washington and Adrian Richardson, Jr. turned themselves in to police. They are accused of shooting at a woman at a Selma apartment. Her 3-year-old child was shot. Both men are charged with attempted murder and firing a gun into an…
For both Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, the weather will be sunny and calm with highs today in the 50s, but a warming trend begins tomorrow afternoon with a high in the 60s. GROWERS BEWARE!!! A freeze warning is in effect for much of Alabama tonight and early tomorrow morning as temperatures are expected to drop into the upper 20s and…
Throughout Elmore County it’s not uncommon to see litter lining the roadways. It’s something the Elmore County commission wants to stop. “We’ve had many complaints about litter and that’s nothing really new. I complain about it myself when I drive down the road that I live on. We all have this frustration about the litter. And so, as a county…
The Alabama House of Representatives has voted to reinstate a school safety task force after fatal shootings in Florida and Birmingham schools. The task force replicates a 2016 initiative and will meet annually with law enforcement, educators and legislators. Democratic lawmakers criticized that a task force doesn’t take strong enough action against gun control and mental health. Rep. Ralph Howard…
Alabama lawmakers have approved an $85 million increase for the state’s prison system as they try to comply with a federal court order to improve mental health care for inmates. The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved $30 million for the Department of Corrections before September and a $55 million boost in next year’s general fund budget. U.S. District Judge…
Alabama inched closer to setting aside a day to honor civil rights icon Rosa Parks. An Alabama Senate committee on Tuesday approved legislation to name Dec. 1 as Rosa Parks Day. The bill now moves to the full Senate. Parks was arrested Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her…
State Rep. Mack Butler (R-Rainbow City) is encouraging lawmakers to support his bill to allow Alabama drivers who are on the autism spectrum to have the option to get a special car tag. If approved, a driver with a valid autism spectrum disorder could purchase a “Person With Autism” license plate, which would identify that person to law…
Rescue crews look down on a charter bus after a deadly crash on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in Loxley, Ala. The bus carrying Texas high school band members home from Disney World plunged into a ravine before dawn Tuesday. (AP Photo/Dan Anderson) An Alabama state trooper says a tour bus driver was killed when a tour bus carrying Texas high…
