Schools. For many, it's one of the deciding factors on whether they move to a city... and it may be the reason they leave. Mayor Todd Strange blames the educational system in Montgomery…
For people in Troy, having a glass of wine or beer on Sundays could soon be an option. Governor Kay Ivey signed local legislation that allowed the city council to set a special…
 The Latest on the scheduled execution of Alabama prisoner Tommy Arthur (all times local): 5:40 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a temporary stay on the execution of an Alabama prison inmate. The nation's high court stayed the execution…
Tallassee police are seeking the public's help with information regarding a man in custody on sex crime charges. Police say Robert Ben Taylor faces charges of electronic solicitation of a child and enticing a minor. Police ask anyone with information…
Gov. Kay Ivey is appointing Birmingham attorney William B. Sellers to the Alabama Supreme Court. Sellers will fill the associate justice seat previously held by Lyn Stuart. Stuart was appointed chief justice after Roy Moore resigned following his permanent suspension.…
Huntsville has overtaken Mobile to become Alabama's third-largest city. New population estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau show the north Alabama city is home to 193,079 people. That surpasses Mobile's estimated population…
The Seventy-five-year-old inmate is scheduled to be put to death Thursday for the 1982 murder-for-hire of Troy Wicker. Judy Wicker initially told police a black man broke into the house, raped her and killed her husband. After her conviction, she…
The Montgomery County Board of Education met with the state board Monday to get some of their issues ironed out. One of the biggest concerns from the MPS board was a lack of…
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has signed into law sweeping protections for Confederate monuments and other long-standing historic markers. Ivey signed the bill Wednesday. The moves come as some Southern cities, such as New Orleans, have removed Confederate monuments from public…
Butler County Schools Incoming Superintendent John Strycker doesn't officially take over the school system until June, but he's making the rounds on the last day of school trying to meet some of his students…
"There's a lot of w's that's weighing in the clouds," says Brundidge Mayor, Isabell Boyd. That's the reaction of Brundidge Mayor Isabell Boyd after the announcement that the Brundidge National Guard Armory is…
Jessica Bentley, the Prattville mother who had been undergoing treatment for Leukemia and recently had a bone marrow transplant has died. We first did a story with Bentley when she was looking for bone marrow matches. She received what doctors…
Prattville police and CrimeStoppers are searching for a man suspected of the fraudulent use of a credit card. Investigators say on May 10, a man used a cloned credit card at the Ulta Beauty store in Prattville at around 7…
Just weeks after her daughter was shot and killed near a Montgomery school, the mother of Bellingrath Middle School student Jaquerria Timmons, stood alongside law enforcement officials and tearfully thanked them for their…
The House has unanimously approved legislation that makes it a crime for U.S. service members to distribute intimate photos or videos of people without first getting their consent. The measure is a direct response to a nude-photo sharing scandal that…
Lawyers for Alabama inmate Tommy Arthur say his lethal injection should be delayed because of issues with the state's execution drugs. His attorneys filed court papers Wednesday with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. They pointed to issues with…
Lawyers for former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard say his ethics conviction is "legally baseless" and prosecutors stretched the bounds of the state law to bring charges against him. Hubbard's lawyers filed the…
Alabama News Network has confirmed the National Guard Armory in Brundidge is being deactivated. According to Lt. Tim Alexander, the U.S. Army National Guard Force Management Division, in compliance with Headquarters Department of the Army, conducted an analysis of the…
During the school year, we honored many deserving teachers with Golden Apple awards. Four of those previous winners have been competing to be the Golden Apple Teacher of…
Governor Kay Ivey signed eight bills Tuesday at Maxwell Air Force Base. Â Each of the bills is related to the military. One bill in particular could play a factor in landing the F-35…
From the West Alabama Newsroom --After two years on the job, Dr. Angela Mangum's tenure as superintendent of Selma City Schools is coming to an end. Mangum submitted a letter of resignation and…
Take a look in your pantry... and you'll probably find that most of your food labels state they have been genetically engineered in some way. But what does that mean? And is it…
Tuesday Montgomery County EMA officials were out surveying some of the damage following all of the rain this past weekend. They ran across several clogged storm drains, which they say could be potentially hazardous.…
A recent study performed by AL.com ranked Alabama school districts by salary. A detailed list of all the school systems can be found here, but on average teachers in Alabama earned $45,610/yr. It's much lower than the national average teacher…
Selma City Schools Superintendent, Dr. Angela Mangum, has submitted her letter of resignation to the school board. The board accepted her resignation and proposed settlement agreement. This comes as the school board was conducting a hearing on Mangum's status with…
