[gtxvideo vid="9IiBgZXn" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/9IiBgZXn-120.jpg?cachebust=1462678349919" vtitle="TYLER PERRY"] Hundreds welcomed entertainer Tyler Perry to Tuskegee University Saturday to address graduates. The commencement speech was the first for Perry. Administrators also presented him with an honorary doctorate. Students say it motivated them…
It's a big day at Alabama State University with more than 400 students taking the next step into the future. The university held its spring commencement ceremony Saturday morning. Comedian and actor Steve Harvey gave the commencement address as part of the ongoing…
A Montgomery jewelry store owner is in hot water after allegedly stealing customers belongings. Rodney Wilkerson of Ray Boone Jeweler was arrested after police say he took the jewelry of his customers and sold the pieces to local pawn shops. Wilkerson…
[gtxvideo vid="06eH04Zi" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/06eH04Zi-120.jpg?cachebust=1462809079328" vtitle="asu grad reax"] Seniors rehearse graduation at Alabama State University's Acadome Friday evening. For some, it's hard to believe the big day is almost here. "Tomorrow at graduation it might hit me that it's time.…
The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission says it has filed ethics charges against Moore, setting up a trial in the Alabama Court of the Judiciary. The SPLC filed the complaint after Moore instructed state court judges to defy a federal court…
[gtxvideo vid="DZfWH8Ri" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/DZfWH8Ri-120.jpg?cachebust=1462808286439" vtitle="speed camera"] Speed cameras in empty Montgomery police cameras will soon be a thing of the past. This, after the governor signed a bill banning their use in Montgomery. You'd see those empty Montgomery police…
[gtxvideo vid="xp3Dw17c" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/xp3Dw17c-120.jpg?cachebust=1462807336384" vtitle="shred day"] From the West Alabama Newsroom-- An event in Selma is helping to protect residents from one of the fastest growing crimes in the country. The annual Community Shred Day provides a safe way…
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department is searching for an unknown subject wanted for Shooting Into An Occupied Vehicle during a Road Rage Incident. On Friday, May 6, at approximately 2:30 p.m. a black Kia Cadenza and an older model tan SUV pulling…
[gtxvideo vid="70v62MO3" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/70v62MO3-120.jpg?cachebust=1462809892098" vtitle="fallen officers"] Everyday, police officers put their lives on the line to protect and serve their communities. Every year, hundreds of police officers nationwide lose their lives. Four law enforcement officers who died in Alabama…
Governor Robert Bentley on Monday will kick off the inaugural meeting of the Every Student Succeeds Act Implementation Committee. The 27-member committee was created in March 2016 by Governor Bentley with Executive Order 16. The committee includes superintendents and members…
More than 250 inmates are still refusing to work in a protest at two Alabama prisons. Corrections spokesman Bob Horton says about 220 men are participating in the work stoppage at Elmore prison. Corrections officers there are doing kitchen and…
[gtxvideo vid="dMoX3MKC" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/dMoX3MKC-120.jpg?cachebust=1462810404530" vtitle="hs students graduate troyu"] Two high school seniors are fortunate to earn associate degrees before their high school diploma. Cody Johnson and Dakota Wood, both of Goshen High School completed Pike Count'y School's First in…
Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate are asking a federal court to stop his execution next week, saying he is incompetent because of mental illness, strokes and dementia. Attorneys for 65-year-old Vernon Madison filed the emergency stay request Wednesday…
The Montgomery Police Department has made an arrest in Thursday, May 5, shooting death of 20-year-old Steven Merriweather of Montgomery. MPD detectives charged, Shaundarius Brown, 18 of Montgomery, with one count of capital murder. Brown turned himself in later that afternoon to MPD…
Jim Wilson and Associates presented a fundraising challenge to Park Crossing High School – agreeing to match funds raised during the school year up to $20,000. The school accepted the challenge and, through a series of events, raised more than $45,000. Representatives…
[gtxvideo vid="MYxEicXs" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/MYxEicXs-120.jpg?cachebust=1462544841275" vtitle="tim sweep pkg"] Dirt is being turned on a piece of land in the shadow of the ASU Football Stadium in Montgomery. It's the first physical sign that work on the long-awaited interpretive center for…
President Obama has commuted the sentence of a Montgomery man convicted of drug crimes, but has taken no action to pardon former Governor Don Siegelman, who is in the same prison at the freed convict. The pardons are part of…
[gtxvideo vid="S9KRMnhL" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/S9KRMnhL-120.jpg?cachebust=1462548886963" vtitle="prayer day"] Dozens of people filled the square in downtown Troy for National Day of Prayer Thursday. The service started and ended with prayer. It included a devotional led by Luke Lane of Troy's First…
[gtxvideo vid="sT9NXGtj" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/sT9NXGtj-120.jpg?cachebust=1462543852579" vtitle="selma prayer day"] From the West Alabama Newsroom-- Folks in Selma mark the National Day of Prayer with three separate ceremonies around town. People crossed racial and denominational lines to come together and pray for…
General Motors is on track to resume full operations at four North American plants where vehicle assembly was halted because of supply chain interruptions caused by earthquakes in Japan last month. Manufacturing that was put on hold on April 25…
Vape away. Increasingly popular e-cigarettes and cigar varieties could be exempt from some government safety regulations if House Republicans have their way. It's a move that alarms Democrats and public health advocates who argue that it could lead to unsafe products.…
Mortgage giant Fannie Mae posted net income of $1.1 billion for the first quarter, down from a year ago as declining interest rates reduced the value of the financial instruments it uses to hedge against rate swings. The results announced…
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley says he disappointed in the failure of his prison construction bill, but said he "will not give up on this." The governor said Thursday that he would not rule out a special session at some point,…
Some low-income and elderly Alabama residents who need help reducing their utility bills will get assistance from $950,000 in grants awarded by Gov. Robert Bentley. The grants are supporting Alabama’s Weatherization Assistance Program which provides funds to improve the energy…
Tempers flared in the Alabama House of Representatives over a pair of abortion-related bills. The House of Representatives ultimately passed both bills. One would shutter any abortion clinic within 2,000 feet of a K-8 public school. The other would ban…
