The Alabama Shakespeare Festival has announced an audition call for it’s upcoming production of Annie. Roles are available for adult men and women as well as female children (ages 6-15). Those auditioning will be asked to sing, dance and act. Adults and children of all ethnicities are…
A state inmate who walked off a job site in Montgomery on Monday is back in custody. Elmore County Sheriff’s deputies apprehended Michael Deshaun McLeod, 34, at about 9 p.m. in Wetumpka, after a tip led them to a gas station where McLeod was.…
Jeddo Bell will be remembered for his commitment to education for generations to come. Monday, Bell's family stood alongside Lurleen B. Wallace Community College staff to officially establish the Jeddo Bell Memorial Scholarship. "My father would be pleased about the…
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- Selma Mayor Darrio Melton delivered a State of the City Address Monday. He highlighted the successes of the past year and shared some of…
A Butler County sheriff's Deputy has been fired after being arrested in Crenshaw County last Friday. Matthew Goodson, 22, had been employed with the Butler County Sheriff's Department for about six months. According to the Crenshaw County Jail, Goodson was arrested…
L.E.A.D. (Leading, Engaging, Achieving, Developing) Academy board members will soon find out the Capital City's first charter school will finally become a reality. The board submitted a charter school application to the…
Tuskegee University has appointed William D. Ritter, an executive and senior vice president of Fortune 500 Regions Bank, as a member of the university’s Board of Trustees. Ritter, elected by the board in the fall to serve a three-year term,…
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is leaving his position ahead of a previously planned retirement this spring. McCabe has been a frequent target of criticism from President Donald Trump. Two people familiar with the decision described it to The Associated…
The United States Marshals Service and the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task announces the arrest of Lee Earnest Curry. Curry is wanted by the Greensboro, North Carolina Police Department for…
Governor Kay Ivey joined U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta and Alabama Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington in urging employers to recruit and employ Alabama’s veterans. A new federal program, the HIRE Vets Medallion Program, expected to officially kick off in…
Authorities are searching for escaped inmate, Michael Mcleod. Mcleod escaped from his assigned work site in Montgomery, early Monday morning. Mcleod was last seeing wearing a black Jacket, white tee shirt, and wearing glasses. He had been incarcerated at the Frank…
Just about everyone carries a cell phone with them 24-7. But, a Montgomery businessman says it's time to curb what he thinks may now be an addiction. "We need to experience the…
About The GRAMMY Awards James Corden will host Music's Biggest Night® in New York City for the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, which will broadcast live on both coasts from Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Jan. 28 at 6:30 PM on…
The Alabama Department of public health says it is investigating 44 deaths as potentially caused by flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lots of information about the flu and keeping your family safe. HERE is their page.…
Crenshaw County students and first responders executed a mock emergency drill to be prepared for the unthinkable. "It's very plausible that this situation could happen and we need to…
7 out of 10 Montgomery residents believe Montgomery Public Schools are in crisis and blame that crisis on the district's leadership. That's according to a new poll conducted by the Montgomery Area…
For the first time in years, things are looking up for Alabama Democrats after the victory of Senator Doug Jones and it is giving hope to Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox…
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- Two faith-based charities team-up to giveaway free shoes to hundreds of elementary school students in Selma. Officials with Samaritan's Feet and Edmundite Missions say the event was…
Xezabeya Quintez Demond Grandberry, 25, of Troy turned himself in to the Troy Police Department on January 25. Grandberry is charged with Discharging a Firearm into An Occupied Dwelling (Class B Felony). On January 15, officers responded to a report…
United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that a federal jury in Selma found Gerald “G-Money” Barber, 40, a resident of Marengo County, guilty of two counts of possession with intent to distribute…
USA Gymnastics has confirmed that its entire board of directors will resign as requested by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The move came Friday in the fallout from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. The former USA Gymnastics sports doctor has…
The Elmore County Sheriff's Office is working an identity theft investigation in which the victim's bankcard was taken and cloned. Card Cloning uses a Card Skimming device to fraudulently copy bank customer details stored on the magnetic strip (brown/black strip at the back) on…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says the state will continue to pursue a death sentence for an inmate convicted of killing a police officer in 1985. Marshall said Friday that he was disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to…
Governor Kay Ivey has awarded nearly $93,000 in grants to assist four law enforcement agencies in east Alabama to purchase equipment and improve public safety in their jurisdictions. Receiving grants are the Valley and Lanett police departments in Chambers County and Alexander City and Dadeville police departments in…
On the heels of interim State Superintendent Dr. Ed Richardson’s address in December outlining the dire state of Montgomery Public Schools, the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce conducted a public opinion poll that reveals 7 out of 10 people believe…
