From the West Alabama Newsroom-- A summer program in Demopolis designed to develop the leaders of tomorrow is expanding. The annual Public Safety Youth Leadership Academy teaches participants the skills necessary…
Montgomery's first charter school most likely won't open in 2018 after a judge rules it didn't receive enough votes for its application. The Alabama Education Association sued charter school…
State Auditor Jim Zeigler is calling on Alabama's Historical Commission to have portraits of Governor Lurleen Wallace and George Wallace returned to the capitol's rotunda. Zeigler's request comes just days before the…
Alabama Power Co. customers will see slightly lower power bills because of a federal tax cut given to utilities. The Alabama Public Service Commission on Tuesday discussed the utility giant's…
Multi Grammy Award-winning country music group Alabama has announced it will headline a tornado-relief concert at Jacksonville State University later this year. It will be the group's only performance in the state in 2018. Alabama will perform at JSU Stadium…
The Montgomery County Board of Education has released the names of the four finalists for the superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools. In alphabetical order: Larry E. DiChiara, Ed.D. Dr. DiChiara has 35 years of professional educational experience in public schools in…
On Monday, the Montgomery County Board of Education narrowed the field from 12 candidates to 4 in their search for superintendent. Then they ranked the candidates privately from…
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- A Selma man is dead and police are investigating a series of shootings in Selma. Police say 26 year old Ernest Daniels of Selma was killed…
The Montgomery Police Department has arrested a second Montgomery man in the shooting death of Damion Clarke, 28. Clarke was fatally wounded Sunday January 7, after a verbal dispute. MPD charged Mark Robinson, 30, with murder after he was taken…
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence of Mario Dion Woodward for the murder of Montgomery Police Officer Keith Houts in 2006. Woodward was convicted in Montgomery…
SARALAND, Ala. (WKRG) - An AMBER Alert has been issued by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency for a 3-year-old boy who was inside of a car stolen Friday in Saraland. Saraland Police say Milton Farris stole a Maroon 2010 Nissan Altima with 3-year-old…
Today, Judge Roy Moore and his wife, Kayla, jointly filed an action for defamation and political conspiracy against those women who have falsely and maliciously accused him of sexual misconduct, and others who were part of the conspiracy. Melissa Isaak,…
Alabama State University will hold its 297th Commencement Exercises on May 12 (Saturday), at 9:45 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. in the ASU Dunn-Oliver Acadome with ASU alumnus (Class of 2007) Duncan Kirkwood (outreach and recruitment manager for the Northland Workforce Training Center (NWTC) in New York) delivering the…
Governor Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education announced on Monday that the state’s First Class Pre-K program will add 107 classrooms to 33 counties this fall. The new classrooms will expand access to Alabama’s high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten program…
State Troopers are investigating an accident in Lowndes County that left a 37 year old Selma man dead. They identify the victim as Roger Phillip Young, Jr, and say he died when his motorcycle collided with a car about 1:30…
Hundreds of people continue to visit the new Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice Sunday. Some visitors say the new facilities could be a real step towards racial healing in the country. People from all over…
Soldiers with the Montgomery Field Artillery attend the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Confederate Monument on Capitol Hill in Montgomery on April 29, 1886. The first and only President of The Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, attended the…
An officer who works for the Wetumpka Police Department came to a Montgomery neighborhood Saturday to continue his late grandmother's stop the violence effort. Members of sororities, fraternities and churches held a "Taking Back Our Youth Rally" at Western Hills…
Everyone wants to be prepared in the event of an emergency. That's why some Elmore County area residents were at a preparedness event today. When danger strikes kids attending the event know what to do. "We learned that when you…
Lines formed early around the riverfront entrance as thousands made their way to the Concert for Peace and Justice. "My heart has been beating for this... I've been telling everyone every time I make a delivery, come to the show!"…
Some are from neighboring states, others from across the country. But they are all here for one thing-seeing what Montgomery has to offer after visiting the Equal Justice Initiative's National Memorial for Peace and Justice. "We've sort of gotten away…
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- The last graduates ever produced in the 96 year history of Concordia College Alabama will walk across the stage this weekend in Selma. Concordia College Alabama in Selma is closing at the end of the…
Secretary of State John Merrill signed four proposed amendments to Alabama's 1901 Constitution. But voters will have the final say. It has already been amended more than 900 times and is the longest state constitution in the United States. Proposed…
A current private college provost and a current public university president are among the two finalists being considered for Tuskegee University’s eighth president. The two have been recommended by the university’s Presidential Search Committee to the Board of Trustees for…
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest yesterday of Freddie V. Vengrouskie for soliciting or receiving employment from a business after directly regulating it and soliciting or accepting a thing of value as an employee of a regulatory body. Vengrouskie,…
