This Valentine’s Day is an extra special day for a Montgomery couple celebrating quite a milestone. Walter and Jean Spiro look back at memories made 70 years ago this Valentine’s Day. The day they said “I do.” But it all started several years before that. “Oh, we met in our homeroom at Gadsden High School and began dating. He was…
On Wednesday, Matthew Woods was sworn in as a member of the Alabama Community College System board of trustees. Woods was appointed by Governor Kay Ivey and confirmed by the Alabama Senate on February 8. Woods replaces Frank Caldwell who resigned from the board effective January 31, 2017. Woods, who represents District 4, is a second-generation entrepreneur and Manager of Jasper…
Earlier this month we broadcasted the story of the first statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery. It will be installed in front of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where King was a pastor. But there is already an image of King and other Civil Rights Icons inside the church. It was created by John W. Feagin, who…
A federal appeals court says Alabama, at least for now, can proceed toward the execution of an inmate who argues that a lethal injection would be cruel because lymphoma and hepatitis C have damaged his veins. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a federal judge’s stay of execution for Doyle Lee Hamm, who is scheduled to…
A Montgomery police officer charged with sexual assault was paid for 18 months before pleading guilty to reduced charges and resigning. The Montgomery Advertiser reports Deonte Hamner went on paid administrative leave after being charged with first-degree sodomy in June 2016. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of domestic assault and unlawful imprisonment on Thursday and resigned from the department….
Alabama lawmakers are moving to strike anti-gay language from the state’s sex education law. The current law says students are to be taught that homosexuality is a lifestyle that’s not “acceptable to the general public.” The Senate Education Policy Committee voted Wednesday to delete that phrase, sending the bill to the full Senate. Republican Sen Tom Whatley, the bill’s sponsor,…
TODAY-FRIDAY: Moisture deepens and we will mention a chance of showers for the entire state with highs in the upper 60s and lower 70s. Tomorrow looks mostly cloudy and mild with some risk of showers with mid 70s for highs, but then upper 70s and dare I say some lower 80s are expected to return to many areas Friday. Also…
“I’m Kay Ivey and I want to ask for your vote and support to be elected Governor of Alabama!” Governor Kay Ivey spoke to a crowd at the Renaissance hotel in downtown Montgomery Tuesday evening. She says since she has been governor, unemployment is at its lowest point of 3.5 percent. Ivey also talked about how she has been instrumental…
The Alabama House of Representatives has approved a 2.5 percent pay raise for teachers and education employees. House members approved the raise on a 100-0 vote Tuesday. The bill now moves to the Alabama Senate. The approval came after an hour of debate in which Democrats argued the raise should be higher. Rep. Laura Hall and other Democrats said the…
On Thursday, February 8, Michael Graham Lowe, 25, of Prattville, was found guilty by a federal jury of sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin Sr. Previously, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Lowe and his co-defendant, Joshua David Rose, after hearing evidence that the two recruited,…
