Two people are joining the Cabinet of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. Ivey's office says Jim Purcell has been named acting secretary of Information Technology, and Todd Cotton is acting commissioner of the Alabama Department of Senior Services. Purcell has worked…
"This is a travesty. This is a stab in the back," said State Rep. Ed Henry, Republican from Hartselle. Henry is talking about a letter Luther Strange signed in April with other Senators. It asked the Senate Majority Leader and…
An Alabama teenager is accused of attempting to set his own home on fire after an argument with his mother in Montgomery. The Montgomery Advertiser reports court documents show that 18-year-old Jonathan Jordan and his mother were having an argument…
Plans for Downtown Montgomery are coming along as a new gathering space will soon open. It's called Dexter Alley Park located on lower Dexter Avenue. It will also lead to the city parking deck with loft apartments overlooking the space.…
The landscape of downtown Montgomery is changing once again. If you've passed through lately, it is hard not to notice all of the work going on. Especially along Dexter Avenue. "You're going to see a lot of life spring up…
A man wanted in the fatal shooting of his ex-wife and two other people near Birmingham, Alabama, has killed himself in the Florida Panhandle. Sheriff's spokeswoman Deb Henley in Escambia County, Florida, says 52-year-old Kenneth Dion Lever killed himself Wednesday…
Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed an executive order that disbanded 18 task forces, commissions and councils established by former Gov. Robert Bentley during his administration that ran from 2011 until his resignation in April. “I believe strongly that my role is…
Police have identified an Alabama man who died after being found with gunshot wounds. Opelika-Auburn News reports that Lee County coroner Bill Harris says 23-year-old Shaqueille O. Jones was pronounced dead at the scene. Opelika police Capt. Bobby Kilgore says…
Former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has gone to court trying to regain the pistol permit he lost after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges and resigning. Court records show Bentley filed an appeal Tuesday challenging the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office decision…
The Alabama State Department of Education has revised the state's graduation rate after an earlier figure proved inaccurate. Information released during a meeting Tuesday shows Alabama's graduation rate was 87.1 percent in 2016. That's higher than the 85 percent rate…
The audit for Montgomery Public Schools is out. And "inadequate" is the overall review. There were four main areas that the State reviewed. Three out of the four were…
Tuskegee Police Chief Lester Patrick has announced another arrest in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Jaivontavious Sellers. Anthony Williford, 24, of Tuskegee was arrested Tuesday afternoon. Williford is charged with Murder, two counts of Attempted Murder and shooting…
Police in New Mexico are investigating whether a Texas teenager was electrocuted when she grabbed her charging cellphone while bathing. Detective Sgt. David Miranda of the Lovington Police Department said Tuesday that the 14-year-old Lubbock girl died Sunday while visiting…
It's been nearly 4 years since city officials broke ground on the future site of Montgomery Botanical Gardens, in Oak Park.Since the groundbreaking in November 2013, progress on the garden…
Special Agents with ALEA’s State Bureau of Investigation and the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office, have made an arrest in the Marathon gas station shooting that occurred in Lowndes County. Katrina Latrese Owens, 40, of Montgomery was charged with first-degree Robbery and…
Police say an Alabama man is charged in what they are calling the brutal stabbing death of his mother in suburban Birmingham. Authorities say 30-year-old Carl Brandon Goodwin is charged with murder in the killing of 55-year-old Maria Jocelyn Goodwin.…
Seven of the U.S. troops killed in the Mississippi plane crash were special operations forces based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Six were Marines and one was a sailor. The Marine Corps refueling and cargo plane went down in a…
President Donald Trump says he his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is "a high-quality person," and he applauds "his transparency." White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a brief statement from the president Tuesday in response to revelations that Trump…
The Alabama Board of Education has released its audit report into Montgomery Public Schools. Earlier this year, the state took over 27 schools in the system, which is about half of Montgomery Public Schools' facilities. In the overall categories of…
An early morning house fire is being blamed for the death of an elderly woman in rural north Alabama. Cullman County Coroner Jeremy Kilpatrick says 80-year-old Odell Bice died in the blaze that broke out early Tuesday. Johnson's Crossing Fire…
Authorities have filed murder charges against the second suspect arrested in a triple slaying in central Alabama. Court records filed Tuesday show 35-year-old Marty Deaundre Morgan of Prattville is charged with three counts…
A local teen is about to head to Washington D.C. to possibly testify before Congress for her research in Type One diabetes. Lily Wientjes was diagnosed with Type One diabetes at 6 years…
Millbrook police need help solving a string of car break-ins. Police Chief PK Johnson says police have investigated seven break-ins reported in the Columns Subdivision and the Plantation Oaks Subdivision. Seven cars were broken into, and Chief Johnson says several guns…
Officials say a military transport plane has crashed in Mississippi's Delta region, killing at least five people aboard. Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks tells The Associated Press that a C-130 military transport crashed Monday about 85 miles (135 kilometers) north…
Governor Kay Ivey has made a few changes to her staff. Lynn Beshear, is now the new commissioner of the department of mental Health Beshear replaces Jim Perdue, who offered Ivey his resignation…
