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…
Growers beware, a frost advisory and freeze warning are in effect for much of Central Alabama for this morning, as temperatures are near 32 degrees. We also close to freezing lows early Wednesday and Thursday mornings with lows in the upper 20s and lower 30s in many areas. Thankfully our weather will be dry through mid-week with sunny days; highs…
Our Golden Apple Award Winner this week comes from the Elmore County School System. In her 17th of teaching, 7th grade teacher Veronica Montgomery at Millbrook Middle School, gets her students excited about mathematics by engaging them by playing a game called game survivor. “Survivor is a way of having kids compete with each other and to push themselves to…
The check is in the bank. The State Department of Education paid back the Montgomery County school board nearly 1.4 million dollars it owed them Monday. This is the money that was involved in a lawsuit over the controversial funds given to Pike Road Schools instead of Montgomery Public Schools. The state has now paid that money back to…
The body of Gary Lee Pergler was found Saturday – Photo from Troy Police Dept. Troy police say five people have been charged following the discovery of the body of a missing Pike County man. As Alabama News Network has reported, 48-year-old Gary Lee Pergler had been missing since March 5, when he was last seen at his home on…
