Heflin, Alabama — Every Halloween season, when the sun sets in the small Alabama town of Heflin, the local students from Cleburne County High School toilet paper a few homes. But last month, they upped their game, toilet papering just about every business in town, too. “It’s just fun,” one teen told CBS News. “And…
Federal prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one rabbi that “I want you to die.” Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was arrested earlier on related state…
An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday. Anthony Boyd, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:33 p.m. local time at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, authorities said. The execution was carried out by nitrogen gas, a controversial method…
Alabama schools are experiencing a significant change this year as the Focus Act, a new law banning cellphones in classrooms, takes effect, aiming to improve focus and reduce distractions in schools across the state. The Focus Act allows each school district to decide how to implement the cellphone ban. At Hewitt-Trussville, the policy requires students…
A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, “I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in any killing.” Anthony Boyd, 53, has been on death row in Alabama for the last three decades. He was convicted in 1995 of capital…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Rival gunmen started shooting at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others, police said. Montgomery Police Chief James Graboys said three of the injured were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Police were called around 11:30 p.m. to what…
Spanish Fort, Ala. — After boating with her friends on Labor Day along Alabama’s Gulf coast, Summerlin Skipworth’s life changed dramatically. The 30-year-old single mom slipped and cut her feet near a boat launch in Orange Beach, Alabama, exposing her to a flesh-eating bacteria that could have killed her. Skipworth shared her story with CBS…
An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after apologizing to his victim’s family and pleas from the woman’s son to spare his life. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was executed at William C. Holman Correctional Facility by nitrogen gas, a method Alabama began using…
A retired professor at Auburn University was stabbed to death over the weekend in a park near the Alabama college campus, according to Auburn Police and the university. A man has been arrested and charged in her murder. Julie Gard Schnuelle, 59, was attacked Saturday morning in Auburn’s Kiesel Park, which the city says is a large green…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado. The long-expected decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate U.S. Space Command,…