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…
Auburn coach Gus Malzahn says he’s not counting out three injured starters from returning against LSU.
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…
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,…
This video is no longer available.The County Planning commission has decided against allowing a new Prattville apartment project enterance connect with an existing street. Â Apartments proposed for McQueen Smith Road were going to have two entrances, Including one connecting with a neighborhood next door called “Pecan Ridge”. But Pecan Ridge residents objected, and now the planning commission has fallen short…
This video is no longer available.Still no news about two missing teenage girls from Clanton. Â Kyndell East and Jana Cowan were last seen together on Sunday in the area off I-65 Â exit 205 in South Clanton. Officials say the girls may have bene headed to Moody where Cowan’s biological mother lives. The two girls are fourteen years old, and weigh…
This video is no longer available.Funeral arrangements are complete for the Charles Henderson High School football player who died on Sunday after Friday night tackle.  Visitation will begin at noon Saturday at Sartain Hall on Troy University’s campus and  the funeral will follow at 2 PM.  Harris died Sunday at a Dothan hospital, just days before his 18th birthday. Harris was…
This video is no longer available.The state Conservation Department is asking hunters not to kill white-tailed deer that have been equipped with orange radio neck collars in four locations across the state. The department and the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences are studying adult survival rates and movement patterns of white-tailed deer in Alabama. They have fitted…
An Auburn man accused of biting off part of his brother’s ear has been found guilty of domestic violence. The Opelika-Auburn News reports that 51-year-old Darrell Wimberly was found guilty Friday of second-degree domestic violence after a jury trial. He was arrested after police say he attacked his brother, David, during a dispute in 2013. Auburn police responded to David…
The director of the Pike County Emergency Management Agency has filed a sex discrimination lawsuit against the Pike County Commission.
