District Attorney Daryl Bailey announces that Elijah Frazier, 21, of Montgomery was convicted by a jury of two counts of Capital Murder. Frazier’s trial began on August 22. Immediately after the jury verdict, Frazier was sentenced to the mandatory sentence of Life Without Parole. Frazier shot and killed Keon Sankey, 29, on November 20, 2013 at the intersection of Burgwyn Road and Kippax…
Lawyers for accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and a defunct mortgage company’s creditors and investors have reached a settlement in a lawsuit involving audits at a failed Alabama bank. Attorneys from both sides confirmed via email Friday that the case involving the $5 billion lawsuit was settled “to the mutual satisfaction of the parties.” The case went to trial in Miami earlier…
Debates of a lottery bill continued Wednesday in the legislature. A lottery bill made it out of a House committee and will be discussed on the House floor Thursday. Governor Robert Bentley calls this a step in the right direction. “I’m asking legislators to let the people vote on this issue,” he said, “this has been a decade’s old problem…
A two-vehicle crash claimed the life of a Montgomery woman. Felicia Rose Landrum, 52, was killed when the 2006 Volkswagen Jetta she was driving collided head-on with a 2003 Oshkosh concrete truck. She was pronounced dead a short time later at Baptist Medical Center South. A child passenger in the Jetta was injured and transported to a local hospital. The crash occurred…
A couple accused of abusing a child has been arrested. Montgomery police and court records show 26-year-old Heather Brabham and 34-year-old William Kirkpatrick were arrested Tuesday after an ongoing investigation involving the abuse of a female juvenile. Brabham and Kirkpatrick were both charged with aggravated child abuse. Brabham and Kirkpatrick are being held at the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a…
A plan to build a mosque in East Montgomery was approved Thursday night by the city Board of Adjustment. The East Montgomery Islamic Society proposed to build the 6,000 square foot mosque on Vaughn Road next to the Deer Creek neighborhood. Some residents expressed concerns about the mosque and how it would affect the neighborhood. Thursday night though, a representative…
Stateline, an online site of The Pew Charitable Trusts, focuses on Alabama in a story about the handful of states that charge the same sales tax on food as everything else: “Alabama, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Dakota tax groceries at the same rate as the sales tax on all purchases, according to the Tax Foundation. Arkansas, Illinois,…
It’s a brand new day at a brand new school for hundreds of students in Montgomery. The doors to the new Montgomery Preparatory Academy for Career Technology or MPACT, opened today at the old Montgomery Mall. The nearly $9 million dollar construction project will allow more than 400 students in the Montgomery Public School system to get hands on training…
Kennon W. Whaley, 51, from Auburn, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison on August 3, 2016. In May, Whaley was convicted by a federal jury of two counts of concealment of bankruptcy assets while his company, Southeastern Stud & Components, was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The evidence at trial showed that during the bankruptcy process Whaley redirected a $260,000 insurance payment…
Alabama State University’s National Public Radio station – WVAS 90.7 FM – will present the second annual Nat King Cole Society Jazz Festival onSunday, September 4, at the Riverwalk Amphitheater in downtown Montgomery. The Jazz Festival will pay tribute to both Natalie and Montgomery native, Nat King Cole, whose boyhood home is preserved and located on the campus of ASU. JAZZ RIVER CRUISE @…
