Alabama News

MOULTON, Ala. (AP) – The former director of a north Alabama animal shelter has surrendered to authorities on charges of cruelty. Multiple media outlets report that former director of the Animal Rescue Shelter of Lawrence County Bobbie Taylor surrendered at the county jail Thursday and is free on $17,000 bond. The Moulton Police Department started

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HANCEVILLE, Ala. (AP) – Alabama authorities say investigators have discovered human remains inside a Cullman County home that caught fire. Reports say police and firefighters were dispatched Wednesday to a home that was fully engulfed in flames. Officials say it took firefighters about three hours to get the blaze under control. Hanceville Police Chief Bob

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MOULTON, Ala. (AP) – An 87-year-old man in north Alabama is charged with wounding his neighbor with a shotgun blast to the shoulder. Multiple media outlets report Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies arrested L.C. Hall on Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and first-degree assault. Authorities say Hall went to his neighbor’s house in Moulton, 20

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WEST POINT, Ala. (AP) – Authorities say a Cullman County man was killed by a falling tree during a storm. County Coroner Jeremy Kilpatrick says 59-year-old Randy Blackwood of West Point died Tuesday night after a tree fell on him outside his house. Kilpatrick says Blackwood was trying to move lawn equipment to a shed

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A Cullman attorney is suing Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley over his decision to remove four Confederate flags from a Confederate monument next to the state Capitol. Attorney Melvin Hasting said Wednesday that he is suing the governor for allegedly overstepping his bounds. Hasting filed the suit on Tuesday in Montgomery Circuit

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – The Poarch Band of Creek Indians has launched a new television ad urging the state to enter into a gambling compact with the tribe. The commercial debuted this week after legislators began a special session on a projected budget shortfall. The ad features people, some in suits and others in baseball

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama state senator wants to pass legislation prohibiting the removal of historic monuments, markers and school names following debate over the display of Confederate emblems on public property. Republican state Sen. Gerald Allen said Thursday that the legislation would protect all history in the state. Allen filed the bill in

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LUVERNE, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama woman is recovering after being attacked by a rabid bobcat in the front yard of her Crenshaw County home. Multiple media outlets report that Michelle Russell says she initially thought the bobcat was a stray dog when she spotted it outside of her home Monday. After realizing it wasn’t,

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham is opening a mental health and wellness center to serve the local LGBT community. Officials say the clinic is run by the university’s department of psychiatry and will begin seeing patients from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community on Monday. Chair of the school’s

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VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) – Vestavia Hills High School will remain known as the “Rebels” but will change its bearded, cane-carrying “Rebel Man” mascot who invoked plantation owner imagery. The Vestavia Hills City School Board on Wednesday approved the superintendent’s recommendation to keep the name the Rebels, but change the mascot’s image. Superintendent Sheila Phillips

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PELHAM, Ala. (AP) – The body of a Pelham man who is believed to have gone fishing has been recovered. The body of 21-year-old John Sisbarro was recovered on Wednesday night from the private lake of the Oaklyn Hills subdivision he lived in. Pelham Fire Department spokesman Lt. Ricky King says Sisbarro had been reported

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FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) – A northeastern Alabama man has been accused of kidnapping two women, including his grandmother, in Fort Payne. Multiple media outlets report that 33-year-old Brian Scott Daniel of Henagar was arrested Wednesday morning on multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree kidnapping. Fort Payne police say Daniel’s grandmother called police early

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Jefferson County Sheriff Office believes they have found the body of a man wanted in connection to a triple murder in McCalla. Just before 4:00 pm today deputies responded to a wooded area between Groundhog Road and Lock 17 Road to investigate a report of a suspicious vehicle that had been driven into the woods.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has ordered Confederate flags taken down from the grounds of the Alabama Capitol. Bentley issued the order Wednesday morning. At least one of the four flags has been removed. Bentley spokeswoman Jennifer Ardis tells The Associated Press that Bentley didn’t want their presence to be “a distraction.”

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MONTGOMERY – The 61 Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces across the nation — including the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) ICAC Task Force — in April launched a two-month joint effort called Operation Broken Heart II, resulting in the arrest of nine child predators in Alabama and the seizure of numerous digital devices

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CLANTON, Ala. (AP) – Authorities say a law officer shot and killed a woman they say led officers on a pursuit and then fired a gun at them during a confrontation on an Alabama interstate. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said the shooting happened Wednesday night on Interstate 65 in the Clanton area. Authorities say

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A  Geneva man has been arrested  after authorities say he sexually assaulted his wife’s dog. Geneva Police Capt. Ricky Morgan confirmed officers arrested 39-year-old Jonathan Edward Medley on June 12 and charged him with misdemeanor animal cruelty. Morgan said Medley’s wife thought he was cheating on her and she placed recording devices around the house. The woman told

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