Our Golden Apple Award winner this week comes from the Wilcox County School system in West Alabama. In her 12th year of teaching, Valerie McCants, at J.E. Hobbs Elementary School, has a unique ability to make the transition from home to school much easier for her kindergarten students…”I am very hands on with my students, I love working one on…
TERRIFIC TUESDAY: After the cold start, it will be another day with an abundance of sunshine that will allow for temperatures to warm into the lower 70s for much of South/Central Alabama. It will be another rain-free day and there will be very little if any clouds again. RAIN CHANCE RETURN LATE WEDNESDAY: A storm system is moving through the…
It’s a project that takes a lot of helping hands. The Magical Christmas Toy Drive brings hundreds of smiles to children across the River Region, who otherwise may not have gotten anything at Christmas. And we need your help to make it happen. “When I was a child, my mother and father would bring me things. Santa Claus would come…
MONDAY/TUESDAY: These two days will be dry, sunny, and temperatures will be moderating some. After the freezing start Monday, highs should climb into the mid 60s. Monday night will be in the lower 30s, and a mainly sunny sky will allow for upper 60s and lower 70s Tuesday. WET WEATHER FOR WEDNESDAY?: Another storm system will move east across the…
Alabama U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions has been offered the position of attorney general in the Trump administration. Sessions was the first member of the U.S. Senate to endorse Trump during this year’s presidential campaign and has been one of his closest allies. Meanwhile, some advocates are voicing concern that if he becomes attorney general, Jeff Sessions could sideline or undo…
FINE, FALL FRIDAY: Another chilly start with 40s for most of us, under a sky that will be full of sunshine most of the day, temperatures will warm nicely, reaching the upper 70s to the low 80s during the afternoon. For the evening, clouds will start to increase in the northwestern parts of the area, and move across the rest…
Montgomery police are investigating two homicides. The first shooting happened Wednesday at 10 p.m. in the the 4100 block of Fitzpatrick Boulevard. The victim has been identified as 27 year old Roderick Bell. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The second shooting happened just after 1:00 a.m. in 300 block of Burgwyn Road, that’s off the East South Boulevard….
A Montgomery city judge has been suspended amid ethics charges. The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission filed charges against Armstead Lester Hayes III, the presiding judge of Montgomery’s municipal court, regarding claims that include the jailing of poor people because they couldn’t pay traffic fines or fines for other misdemeanor offenses. Al.com reports Hayes was automatically suspended with pay Thursday. The charges…
TODAY AND FRIDAY: Expect a sky full of sunshine both days. Mornings will be chilly with 40s expected, but with all that sun, we should see upper 70s and lower 80s this afternoon. Friday will be a carbon copy of today with upper 70s and low 80s out there, but clouds will be on the increase late in the day…
The beloved Charles Dicken’s story tells the tale of Scrooge in search for redemption and a spectacular, magical evening of ghosts, spirits, festivity and goodwill. “Scrooge, First Act, is the meanest person on earth. And by the end of the show, he is outrageously happy. People ask me, ‘how do you do that everyday?’ By the end of the show,…
