Authorities say a correctional officer in south Alabama has confessed to smuggling in a cellphone. Butler County Sheriff Kenny Harden says investigators interviewed the employee, Mary Frances Hardy, after she showed up for work on Friday at the Butler County…
Alabama officials say claims that a December lethal injection was badly botched are "highly exaggerated and incorrect." Lawyers with the Alabama attorney general's office in a court filing last week urged the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date…
The Alabama Department of Corrections has identified two suspects in the stabbing death of a state inmate that happened at the Elmore Correctional Facility on Sunday. Prison officials said state inmates David Menuel…
A man free on bond while awaiting trial in the slaying of an Auburn University football player has been arrested again on unrelated charges. Police in Dadeville arrested 24-year-old Markale Deandre Hart of Camp Hill on Sunday. A police statement…
The Prattville Police Department is searching for unknown subjects wanted in reference to a Theft of Property Investigation. Two have been identified and two remain at large. The listed females are wanted for questioning in regards to a felony shoplifting…
The Tuskegee Police Department and Macon County Sheriff’s Department has notified CrimeStoppers that Michael Anthony Norris has been taken into custody. Norris was suspected of shooting 19-year old Kentavious Deon McDaniel. Norris was arrested on Thursday, February 22, on County…
Montgomery police  arrested Keith Barnes, 38, of Deatsville in reference to an ongoing investigation that began on February 21, involving a teenage female victim. During the course of the investigation MPD determined that Barnes…
An alleged bank robber who took 11 people hostage in a Tuscaloosa credit union last month has been charged. A federal grand jury indicted 18-year-old Cedrick Lamar Collins on Friday with one count of bank robbery and two counts of…
A judge has set bond for $500,000 for a man accused of killing his 68-year-old mother in northeast Alabama. The Gadsden Time reports (http://bit.ly/2mfNdgr ) that 48-year-old Larry Bodily remains jailed in Cherokee County on charges of murder and third-degree…
Maine's Republican governor has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ramp up prosecution of drug crimes and says the U.S. Attorney's Office isn't actively pursuing drug dealers. The Associated Press obtained a copy of a Jan. 26 letter in which…
