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The events taking place in Ferguson, Missouri, where a black teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer, are hitting very close to home for one Montgomery man. His father was killed by Montgomery police in 1975.
Deputies are on the search for the people involved in a rash of home burglaries and deputies need your help to find the burglars. Deputies say the number of home burglaries in the last month has people in Elmore County on high alert...
Alabama's Attorney General says the former assistant chief of the Autaugaville Volunteer Fire Department has been sentenced on ethics charges.
Troy University students heading back to class may already have noticed new police cars driving around campus.
Troy police arrest a man for child pornography.
Bankers in Troy wanted to accept the ice bucket challenge with a special twist.
Dallas County schools officials say a teacher accused of having sixth grade students re-enact the shooting of an unarmed Missouri man has been put on paid administrative leave.
Dallas County schools officials say a teacher accused of having sixth grade students re-enact the shooting of an unarmed Missouri man has been put on paid administrative leave.
A defense lawyer says an Alabama federal judge charged with domestic violence in Atlanta is embarrassed and entering a treatment program.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Department needs your help finding suspects who burglarized mulitple buildings in Montgomery County.
Montgomery faith leaders trying a new way to get teenagers off the streets and into the church. To do that, they're using a game--basketball.
A Montgomery man has been convicted of a 2013 homicide.
A Montgomery man is in the hospital with gunshot wounds.
A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a vehicle this morning. According to authorities, a man was riding his bicycle south bound on Narrow Lane road when a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction collided with him. The cyclist was…
Troy police arrest a man for child pornography. Chief Jimmy Ennis says 37 year old Douglas Edward Hale has been charged with Possession of Child Pornography. Detectives say that they searched his computer and found child pornography. Â He is…
Montgomery Police are investigating an accident that claimed the life of bicyclist.
A program that supplies surplus military equipment to Alabama law enforcement agencies has been on hold since March. The federal program has come under scrutiny since police in Ferguson, Missouri, used surplus military equipment in clashes with protesters. The program…
A new book tells the story of the tornado that pummeled Tuscaloosa during the outbreak of April 27, 2011. Sports Illustrated writer Lars Anderson of Birmingham has written "The Storm and the Tide: Tragedy, Hope and Triumph in Tuscaloosa." The…
The state marine laboratory at Dauphin Island is expanding. The Dauphin Island Sea Lab has started work on a new research center for the Alabama Marine Mammal Stranding Network. Network director Ruth Carmichael says Alabama has historically had a lack…
Authorities identified two people killed when a helicopter crashed in western Alabama as 63-year-old David Carson of Tuscaloosa; and 51-year-old Matthew Wallace of Hiram, Georgia.
Six Tuskegee University students are home after being stranded in Liberia for weeks because of the Ebola outbreak. The school issued a statement Tuesday night saying the students arrived at the Atlanta airport. They are all healthy with no quarantine…
An abortion clinic in Huntsville has won permission to relocate so it can comply with new state restrictions. WAAY-TV reports the city zoning board approved the relocation of the Alabama Women's Center for Reproductive Alternatives during a meeting Tuesday night.…
A huge 15 foot gator was caught in the Alabama River in Wilcox County over the weekend. Now the taxidermist who is about to perform the taxidermy is speaking out about it.
If you're an animal breeder, or have a business where you own more than five dogs or cats, you will soon be charged a fee.



