From the West Alabama Newsroom– The city of Uniontown has a new top cop. Action 8 News sat down with the city’s new police chief to talk about his goals for the department and the community. Police chief Michael Kiser has spent his first weeks on the job — immersing himself in the Uniontown community — and planning ways to…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– Selma Police are investigating the city’s first murder of 2025 — less than a week into the new year. Chief Kenta Fulford says officers responded to a shots fired call in the area of Keller Alley at around 8:30 Saturday night. Officers received a 2nd call while in route — about a gunshot victim on…
The Alabama Department of Corrections says it is closing a work center in Escambia County to shift officers to a badly understaffed prison. The agency said Tuesday that closing the Atmore Community Work Center will let it transfer additional workers to the troubled Holman prison nearby. The center has 27 workers and houses 240 inmates. The nearby prison has been…
