A Montgomery woman is in custody after admitting to fasley reported the death of a 12 year old boy on social media. 20 year old Bailey Simmons has been charged with falsely reporting an incident. Â Police say Simmons made a…
A Bibb County high school teacher is facing sex charges involving three students during the last five years. It's reported that Michael Jones, 43, was arrested Tuesday. He's charged with one count of a school employee having sex with a…
A Jury has convicted Dylann Roof in the racially motivated slayings of 9 black church members in South Carolina. The jury of nine white people and three black people deliberated less than two hours before returning a guilty verdict against…
Attorney General Luther Strange announced the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday upheld the felony murder convictions of Brandon Jamal Ryles. Ryles, 27, of Brundidge. He was convicted in September of 2014 of the murders of Mark Adams and…
The Montgomery Police Department has arrested a suspect in the November 16 shooting death of 27-year- old Roderick Bell of Montgomery. MPD charged Devin Robinson, 23, with one count of capital murder in connection with Bell’s death. Robinson turned himself…
A Prattville woman accused of killing her boyfriend last year has had her bond revoked after she was charged with driving under the influence. Citing court records, the Montgomery Advertiser reports a judge recently ordered that Vegas Amore Contorno's $250,000…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The Latest on the federal death penalty trial of a man accused of killing nine black people during a South Carolina church Bible study (all times local): 5:15 p.m. An FBI agent says the man who…
A story in today's N.Y. Times says Henry County D.A. Doug Valeska gave preferential treatment to Harvey Drayton Burch III, a passenger in a car being driven by Valeska's son: "District Attorney Douglas A. Valeska granted him (Burch)Â pretrial diversion,…
An Alabama inmate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his upcoming execution to consider whether a judge should have been able to give him a death sentence when the jury recommended life imprisonment. Attorneys for Ronald Bert Smith…
A former Elmore County commissioner has pleaded guilty to a felony ethics law violation. Attorney General Luther Strange says Joe Faulk entered his plea Thursday in Elmore County Circuit Court to intentionally using his office for personal gain. Strange says…
