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UA Student Arrested On Terroristic Threat Charge

University of Alabama officials say a 19-year-old student accused of making a terroristic threat has been arrested. University spokesman Chris Bryant said in a statement Tuesday that Daniel Evan Simmons was arrested by university police after an investigation into alarming messages that were sent the morning of Sept. 23. Bryant says Simmons is in the Tuscaloosa County Jail and is…

Court Rules In Case Tied To Jailed Casino Boss

The Alabama Supreme Court has sided with a Troy bank in a fight over the troubled finances of jailed casino developer Ronnie Gilley. The ruling Tuesday involved a $100,000 check that Ronnie Gilley Properties wrote to Cile Way Properties in December 2010. Cile Way deposited it at Citizens Bank in Geneva. Citizens Bank only encoded the check for $1,000 when…

Troy Man Gets New Trial In 2 Rape Cases

A Troy man convicted of raping two women in one day will get a new trial. The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday left intact a ruling by Pike County Circuit Judge Jeff Kelley that Andre Lamon Ellis should receive a new trial. Ellis was convicted in 2013 of raping two women and burglarizing one woman’s residence at a mobile home…

Trial Begins For Former Alabama Education Official

The trial of a former state Department of Education official and her husband has started in Montgomery. Prosecutor Bill Lisenby told jurors Tuesday that Deann Stone used her position as the department’s director of federal programs to manipulate the awarding of federal stimulus funds. He said $24 million in stimulus grants went to three school systems using her husband’s employer,…