A dad took his two toddlers along for a robbery and left them in the stolen getaway car at a gas station, Alabama police said. Now, the man and a woman have been arrested. A woman told the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office that she was pulling up to her home on Jan. 20 when she […]
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt Alabama from proceeding with the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who survived a botched lethal injection in 2022 that helped prompt a review of the state’s death penalty procedures. The […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia. If carried out, it would the first new method […]
Officers arrested an Alabama prison guard Thursday and charged her with using her official position for personal gain and attempting to commit a controlled substance crime, the third guard arrest this month. Officers arrested Ebony Chillous and transported her to the Montgomery jail, said Kelly Betts, an official with the state prison system. Chillous resigned […]
A 9-year-old Alabama boy is currently in stable condition after being wounded in his legs this week during a highway shootout that left his teenage cousin dead. Authorities report that this marks the second time the child has been shot in the past year, leaving the community questioning how such incidents can occur. The grammar […]
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – An Alabama death row prisoner who survived a botched execution attempt by lethal injection asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to halt the state’s planned second attempt next week, this time by the novel method of asphyxiation with nitrogen gas. Lawyers for Kenneth Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed […]
ROBERTSDALE, Ala. (WKRG) — Cassey Prescott is one of many parents in Alabama who receive state funding to help care for her daughter, Lyriq, who has a disability. However, for her and many others, she hasn’t received her payments from the state making her wonder how she will make ends meet as it’s her only […]
The families of two Alabama prison inmates who died in the past few weeks are demanding answers from state authorities after they received their loved ones’ bodies bizarrely missing several of their major internal organs. Both these cases raise questions about the treatment and mismanagement of the bodies of 74-year-old Charles Singleton and 43-year-old Brandon […]
A man who died in the custody of Alabama’s correction’s department was reportedly returned to his family without his organs, including his brain. The news, which broke earlier this week, is the second recent case involving allegations of missing body parts from people in prison in the state. The US prison system is widely criticized […]
A potent weather system moving through the state overnight and into Tuesday morning caused widespread power outages, flash flooding and downed trees. Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery and eastern Dallas counties were under a flash flood warning until 7:45 a.m. Tuesday with rainfall totals expected to exceed five inches from the storms. At 6:30 p.m. Prattville […]
A 5-year-old boy was visiting a home in Alabama to get his hair cut when he was shot and killed, police said. The Jefferson County coroner identified him as Brandon Jamal Nation III. The barber was also shot and is currently in stable condition, Det. Justin Burmeister with the Bessemer Police Department told McClatchy News. […]
Jan. 6—At the first Limestone County Commission meeting of 2024, the commissioners were presented with reports of successes and failures of the year before. Limestone County Engineer Marc Massey delivered the required annual report on the 2023 use of the county’s Rebuild Alabama funds. “This past year, we completed 13.03 miles of projects using Rebuild […]