Alabama’s unemployment rate is on the rise. Gov. Robert Bentley announced Friday the state’s unemployment rate for July was 7 percent. That’s two-tenths of a percent higher than the June rate of 6.8 percent. Last month’s rate also is higher than the July 2013 jobless rate of 6.3 percent. Bentley’s office says the state added 19,400 jobs in a year….
A new shortcut is opening to Alabama’s beaches. A nearly 13-mile stretch of road called the Baldwin Beach Express opens completely to traffic on Friday. Some sections of the road already have been in use. The road ties in with Interstate 10 north of Robertsdale and connects with the Foley Beach Express to the south. The highway allows tourists to…
Prices at the pump seem to be on the rise and many are taking notice.
There are more questions than answers for a troubled theatre in Georgiana.
Rioting and violent exchanges between police and protestors continue in Ferguson, Missouri.
This after an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a policeman over the weekend.
And today, a vigil was held in Montgomery to remember 18-year-old Mike Brown.
The first week of school is wrapping up — and as students work in the classrooms, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s SWAT team is working with active shooter trainings to make sure your child is safe this school year.
When Reeltown Elementary School opened its doors for the school year for the first time, it welcomed 18 four-year-olds. They’re the first students in the first Pre-K program in the Tallapoosa County School System.
Toomer’s Corner in Auburn hasn’t looked the same since the beloved oak trees were taken down last spring after they were poisoned following the 2010 Iron Bowl.
The school is almost ready to reveal a new facelift for the beloved corner.
A family has settled its lawsuit over a crash that killed a University of Alabama student after the national championship football game in Miami last year. Plaintiff attorneys Jere Beasley and Chris Glover aren’t disclosing the terms of the agreement that ends a state court lawsuit filed by parents of 20-year-old Natalie Baine of Roswell, Georgia. Baine was a passenger…
A man accused of fatally shooting a woman while she was holding her newborn baby has been convicted of capital murder. Corderious McClellan was found guilty Thursday in the death of Sherri Williams, who was holding her 10-day-old baby while she stood in the doorway of her Birmingham apartment in April of 2013. Prosecutors say Williams’ brother was likely the…
