A Mobile man has been accused of impersonating a police officer. In a post on its official Facebook page, the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday called 24-year-old Douglas Roberts a “wannabe cop.” Capt. Paul Burch says Roberts was portraying himself as a constable while writing tickets in the Mobile area for speeding and illegal parking. Investigators say the citations…
Third Vice President might not sound like a prestigious title, but for one Greenville officer it’s a chance to impact law enforcement across the state. Greenville Chief Investigator Justin Lovvorn was recently elected as the Third Vice President for the Alabama Peace Officers Association. APOA holds only one election a year, for the Third VP position. The Third VP moves to…
A South Carolina lawyer has pleaded guilty to bank fraud in a scam involving a $14 million sorority house at the University of Alabama. Prosecutors say 39-year-old Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan of Sandy Springs, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Tuesday to submitting false invoices for equipment and furnishings for the 40,000-square-foot Gamma Phi Beta sorority house in Tuscaloosa. Meehan was a member…
A committee probing the possible impeachment of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is hiring special counsel to lead the investigation. The House Judiciary Committee will meet Friday to discuss and approve the appointment. The committee is looking into whether there are grounds to impeach the Republican governor in the wake of a sex-tinged scandal involving a former top aide. This will…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (rolltide.com) – Alabama head football coach and West Virginia native Nick Saban is asking that football coaches from across Alabama come together to help the football teams in the West Virginia communities devastated by recent flooding. Saban, along with the Alabama High School Athletics Directors and Coaches Association, is asking high schools from across the state of…
The Gallup organization has produced a study of state and local government workers to determine which state has the highest per-cent of workers who are “engaged” in their jobs. Alabamians who work in HR departments know the difference between engaged, disengaged and actively disengaged workers. The Gallup poll finds the Southeastern States–including Alabama–have a high per-cent of engaged government employees…
The federal government is seeking to dismiss Alabama’s lawsuit over refugee placement after the failure of a similar lawsuit by Texas. A lawyer for the federal government on June 16 filed a notice of the Texas decision with the court in the ongoing request to dismiss the Alabama case. Both Texas and Alabama sued the federal government over refugee placement….
A crash in Perry County left a man dead and three other people injured. Al.com reports that Johnny Lewis of Newbern was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck at about 8:20 p.m. Sunday. The crash happened on Alabama 61, about a mile north of Uniontown. A 2005 Chevrolet Malibu driven by Lewis collided with a 2007 GMC Yukon…
A lawyer for former House Speaker Mike Hubbard says prosecutors are seeking a “ridiculously extreme” prison sentence after Hubbard’s conviction on ethics charges. Defense lawyer Bill Baxley said Friday that the 18-year sentence prosecutors want is absurd. The attorney general’s office, in a court filing this week, said that want Hubbard to spend five years in prison and another 13…
IRVING, Texas (AP) – Two people with knowledge of the situation says Dallas Cowboys linebacker Rolando McClain has been suspended for the first 10 games next season for his second violation of the NFL’s substance-abuse policy in as many years. McClain was suspended the first four games last season. He signed a second straight one-year deal with the Cowboys in…
