Category Archives: Local News

Linkin Park sent a cease-and-desist notice to the Trump campaign for using their music.

Organizers of a national workers strike say tens of thousands are set to walk off the job Monday in more than two dozen U.S. cities to protest systemic racism and economic inequality that has only worsened during

An Amber alert has been issued from Pasco County, Fla., for a 9-year-old boy.

Despite flickers of an economic upswing as states eased stay-at-home orders in May and June, the jobless rate remained at double digits, higher than it ever was in the last decade’s Great Recession.

Portland police early Monday detailed another night of conflict between protesters and federal forces outside the U.S. courthouse in Oregon’s largest city, including a small fire outside the building and tear gas deployed to disperse the crowd.

Officials say a gunman, believed to have posed as a FedEx delivery person, shot and killed the 20-year-old son of a federal judge as he answered the door of the family home.

The teenager was on probation in the juvenile justice system for fighting with her mother and stealing. The judge declared she had violated the probation by not completing her work and sent her to juvenile detention.

Three friends from Florida were beaten and shot after getting together to do some night fishing at a lake. The county sheriff described the killings as a massacre.

The death of Congressman and Civil Rights Icon John Lewis has sparked a renewed interest in the renaming of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.

Leaders across the country continue to remember civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis, including locally in East Alabama. The civil rights icon passed away Friday at 80-years-old.