The long Memorial Day travel period is underway. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) will not be taking a holiday. Instead, state troopers will be out to make sure people buckle up and obey traffic laws. This year’s official holiday travel period runs from 6 a.m. Friday, May 26, to midnight Monday, May 29. Alabama’s Secretary of Law Enforcement Hal Taylor…
Local Muslim leaders have broken ground on the first mosque in east Montgomery. The mosque will be the first place of worship for Muslims on the east side of town. Â It will be located on Vaughn Road, near the Deer Creek subdivision. Meetings about the construction were held at City Hall and with the Deer Creek neighborhood association, and there…
Montgomery Police say Lalin Sanderson has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting that happened late Thursday night. Police say the shooting happened at about 11:30 p.m. in the 4700 block of South Court Street. Officers say the teenage male victim is an acquaintance of Sanderson.  He suffered a serious gunshot wound and was taken to a  hospital…
Alabama has put to death Tommy Arthur, the man who escaped seven prior execution dates for his conviction in a 1982 murder-for-hire. Officials say the 75-year-old inmate was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m. CDT following a lethal injection at a southwest Alabama prison. Arthur was convicted in the fatal shooting of Troy Wicker as he slept in his Muscle Shoals home….
Our Friday will be sunny and considerably warmer across Alabama with our highs surging into the upper 80s as temperatures rise to more typical late May levels. Then, tomorrow, expect a high between 87 and 91 degrees as the warming trend continues. It still looks like most of the day tomorrow will be dry with a partly sunny sky. REST…
Schools. For many, it’s one of the deciding factors on whether they move to a city… and it may be the reason they leave. Mayor Todd Strange blames the educational system in Montgomery for people leaving. “We’ve been working for many years trying to improve that. The fact that we have a state intervention and the fact that over the…
Tallassee police are seeking the public’s help with information regarding a man in custody on sex crime charges. Police say Robert Ben Taylor faces charges of electronic solicitation of a child and enticing a minor. Police ask anyone with information about Taylor to call their Criminal Investigations Division at (334) 283-6586. Categories: Crime, Montgomery Metro, News
TODAY/TOMORROW: After the cool start this morning, with many of us in the 50s, the rest of today will feature a clearing sky and it should be a mostly sunny day with a high around 80°; tonight will be cool again with upper 50s expected. Friday afternoon, the warming trend begins and we warm back into the upper 80s under…
The Montgomery County Board of Education met with the state board Monday to get some of their issues ironed out. One of the biggest concerns from the MPS board was a lack of organization and communication. The state board of education met for a work session Wednesday. While strategic planning for schools was on the agenda, we wanted to know…
Jessica Bentley, the Prattville mother who had been undergoing treatment for Leukemia and recently had a bone marrow transplant has died. We first did a story with Bentley when she was looking for bone marrow matches. She received what doctors called the “perfect match” from someone in Brazil.  Bentley underwent the bone marrow transplant in March 2017. According to her Facebook…
