Alabama News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Montgomery police say they’ve apprehended a teenager accused of firing a gun at Riverfront Park after a Montgomery Biscuits baseball game. Police say they arrested the teen Saturday night after responding to reports of gunshots during the postgame fireworks show at Riverwalk Stadium, after the minor league game between Montgomery and

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DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) – Dothan city officials are expected to approve funding for construction of a new communications center to house city and county dispatchers, as well as the county Emergency Management Agency. On Tuesday, the City Commission  is anticipated to give the Dothan-Houston County Communications District the final approval it seeks for $5.5 million

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Presidential hopeful Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will speak in Alabama next month. Walker will be the featured speaker at the Alabama Republican Party’s summer luncheon on Aug. 22. The event will be held at the Talladega Superspeedway. Tickets are required. Walker last week announced his candidacy for president. Walker rose to

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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) – Sheriff’s investigators in Marshall County say they’ve unraveled the mystery of dozens of gravestones, some from the 1800s, found discarded by a roadside. The discovery earlier this week outraged local Commissioner Jesse Swords, who said: “Whoever’s done this should be punished.” Heath Thomas of the sheriff’s office says there was no

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama’s unemployment is remaining steady but is still above the national average. State officials on Friday announced that the June jobless rate was 6.1 percent, the same as it was in May. By comparison, the U.S. unemployment rate in June was 5.3 percent. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has promised not to

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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) – “One two, three four, five six, seven eight . One two, three four.” The choreographer’s mantra resounded through the otherwise empty concourse at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum Thursday morning as batons hurtled through the air, falling carefully back into the hands they left when they started their flights. “It’s not as easy

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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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