A grand jury in Alabama will hear the case of a woman accused of fatally stabbing her husband with a sword. Authorities say 50-year-old Jeannette Hale stabbed her husband, Mark, in the chest while he played a guitar in their home on April 2. Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell tells AL.com that responding deputies found Mark Hale bleeding on their…
From the West Alabama Newsroom– A Selma man is on trial for murder at the Dallas County Courthouse for the shooting death of an elderly man. District Attorney Michael Jackson says 35 year old Caleb Shaw shot and killed 72 year old Willie James Thomas back in April of 2012. He says Thomas was shot on Shelley Avenue as he…
The Latest on the legal fight over the released of the 911 calls from the Pulse nightclub shooting (all times local): 5:15 p.m. A judge has cleared the way for the release of many of the hundreds of 911 calls related to a mass shooting at a gay Florida nightclub. Circuit Judge Margaret Schreiber on Monday dismissed a lawsuit from…
A court has set a tentative date for the trial of suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. An order released Monday by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary says Moore’s trial on judicial ethics charges will begin Sept. 28 if the case isn’t over before then. The case could come to an earlier end if the court agrees with judicial…
The trial of Alabama native, Justin Ross Harris, has been moved. A judge decided to move the trial to Brunswick, Georgia, away from the suburban Atlanta County where his 22-month-old son Cooper died. Harris, 35, faces charges including murder. Police have said the boy died after spending about seven hours in the SUV on June 18, 2014, when Atlanta-area temperatures…
Prosecutors are laying out their case against indicted Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard. In opening statements Tuesday, prosecutor Matt Hart told jurors that Hubbard took contracts worth tens of thousands of dollars each month from companies that wanted to influence legislation. Hart said Hubbard needed the money because he was losing a job with the company that broadcasts Auburn University…
State prosecutors have indicated that they plan to bring up other accusations against Speaker Mike Hubbard during his ethics trial next month. Prosecutors in a Friday motion wrote that they plan to introduce evidence at trial that Hubbard, among other things, misrepresented advice he got from the ethics commission and had an agreement with lobbyists to receive things of value…
A judge has postponed House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s ethics trial that had been scheduled to start next month. Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker on Monday agreed to delay the trial while a prosecutor recovers from knee surgery. The attorney general’s office last week asked for a short postponement of the March 29 pretrial conference and April 11 trial. Walker…
