A Pennsylvania ice cream maker is courting Harry Potter fans with a new flavor based on Hogwarts' favorite drink, "butterbeer." Yuengling's Ice Cream notes that J.K. Rowling once described butterbeer as tasting "a little bit like less sickly butterscotch." With…
Bird flu has now been confirmed in three Southern states, but officials say the nation's poultry supply isn't at risk. The Kentucky Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that it's temporarily banning the transportation of poultry after a form of the…
Officials say a body has been found outside an elementary school in east Alabama. The city of Tallassee's school superintendent, Wade Shipman, says a worker found a woman's body inside a vehicle parked in front of Tallassee Elementary School early…
The Latest on reports of an incident outside Britain's parliament (all times local): 10:30 p.m. British police say five people died in the terror attack outside Parliament. Counter-terrorism chief Mark Rowley said one policeman, three civilians and the attacker died.…
An immigrants' rights group is demanding the release of about 40 immigrants that were recently detained by federal agents. Media outlets report that about 25 members of the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice held a rally Tuesday morning in front…
Recently, the Montgomery Police Department released some shocking video captured on their red light cameras. The city has cameras installed at around 20 intersections and they hope the video sends a…
"I give them a "B/ B-" They are doing well. They have done well to look at the budget." Political analyst Steve Flowers says the 2017 Legislative session is on the…
The United States had it's first locally transmitted case of the zika virus last summer in Florida. Health officials in that state reported a new case this week, bringing the total…
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- Two men suspected of shooting at a Selma police officer get their bonds set at $5,000,000 dollars each. Authorities say Demarious "Sleepy" Pullom and Calvin Boyd…
State Veterinarian, Dr. Tony Frazier, confirms that a flock of chickens at a commercial poultry breeding operation located in Pickens County and a backyard flock located in Madison County have both tested positive for low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI). …
The Montgomery Police Department has initiated a homicide investigation following the death of Brittany Young, 20. Young was pronounced dead Monday night, March 20, after sustaining a gunshot wound on March 19. On March 19 around 9:25 a.m., MPD and…
President Donald Trump today singed into law bi-partisan legislation reauthorizing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with $19.5 billion in funding and key policy provisions supporting the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Earlier this month, the House…
The 7th Project is offering PAID Internships during the Summer of 2017 in Congresswoman Terri Sewell’s (AL-7) Washington, D.C. office as well as her District Offices in Alabama located in Birmingham, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, and Selma. The application can be accessed…
Our Golden Apple Award Winner this week comes from the Montgomery Public School System. History teacher, Stephen Landrum at Sidney Lanier High School, left the courtroom for the classroom. That right,…
Charges have been filed against a woman who hit and killed a construction worker last week. Kelly Nicole Dingler of Deatsville has been charged with Driving Under the Influence and Manslaughter. Police say Dingler killed 55-year-old Larue Brandy last week…
A Millbrook man is charged with domestic violence assault after a shooting Monday morning. Authorities say they were called to a disturbance in the 1800 block of Alabama River Parkway. Both the suspect, 42-year-Michael Cleary, and the victim were shot. Cleary…
An abandoned dog, who was found on the side of Highway 29, now has a new home and job. Roger was found locked in his crate with a toy and…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was one of the earliest Trump supporters during the campaign. He now sits as the highest law enforcement official in the country. But the Alabama NAACP…
The Montgomery Police Department has charged 16-year-old Robert E. Lee High School student Quinterrious Norman with first-degree assault and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. He's being held…
A former lawmaker who spent six terms representing south Alabama in the Alabama Legislature has died. A funeral home obituary says Eugene Crum Foshee died on Saturday. He was 79. The obituary didn't give a cause of death. Foshee was…
A court date has been set for a lawsuit challenging Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley's decision to wait until 2018 to hold an election for Jeff Sessions' former U.S. Senate seat. State Auditor Jim Zeigler announced Monday that a hearing for…
A billionaire philanthropist who was the last of his generation in the famously philanthropic Rockefeller family has died. David Rockefeller was 101 years old. Rockefeller's spokesman, Fraser P. Seitel (sy-TEHL'), says he died peacefully in his sleep Monday morning at…
Iowa State University President Steven Leath will become Auburn’s 19th president. The university’s board of trustees Monday unanimously selected Leath after a six-month national search. Leath starts July 15and replaces Jay…
A two-vehicle crash Sunday, March 19 around 4:35 p.m., has claimed three lives and injured another. A 16-year-old boy from Andalusia was killed when the 2006 Ford F-150 he was driving collided with a 2002 Ford-150 driven by Robert Curtis…
The Alabama Department of Corrections reports the recapture of state inmate Demetrius Harris, 44, who escaped from a work release job site in Montgomery on Saturday. After receiving a tip, Fairfield police recaptured Harris at a gas station in Fairfield…
