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,…
Two adults were killed and seven children were injured, including one as young as 1 year old, in an all-terrain vehicle crash over the weekend at an off-roading park in Alabama, authorities said. None of the occupants was wearing proper restraints or harnesses while riding in the vehicle, which crashed in a remote section of…
The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town overwhelmingly won election this week, four years after he says White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. Incumbent Mayor Patrick Braxton was elected as the mayor of Newbern, winning 66 votes to his opponent’s 26, according to results…
Hurricane Katrina was described as “a slow-motion catastrophe” on “60 Minutes” on Sept. 4, 2005, six days after slamming the Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, the storm is known as the costliest and one of the deadliest to ever hit the United States. Katrina first made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Florida on…
Hurricane Katrina was a terrifying experience for more than a million people affected across the Gulf Coast region. Nearly 1,400 people died, most of them in New Orleans — and 20 years later, some communities are still struggling to recover. The National Hurricane Center says the costliest hurricane in U.S. history — more than $201…
An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, hanging or medical-aid-in-dying instead. Anthony Boyd has filed a lawsuit challenging the relatively new and controversial execution method that uses lethal gas to cause suffocation, arguing its application is unconstitutionally cruel — something…
SHELBY COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) – Students are back in the classroom without their cell phones this year. With the FOCUS Act signed into law, students are now prohibited from using them during the instructional day. Spain Park High School junior Sai Vajaha is pushing back with a petition to end the ban and it’s gaining…
According to the doctors, the old saying holds true: breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. Dr. Melissa Young-Harkins at Kids Town Pediatrics advises that kids should eat their biggest meal in the morning. She says that breakfast needs to be loaded with “brain food,” such as protein and fiber. That includes…
The death of an unarmed 52-year-old man who died after an Alabama police officer kneeled on his neck was ruled a homicide by a county coroner, according to an official autopsy reviewed by The Associated Press. The finding led lawyers representing Phillip Reeder’s family on Monday to compare his death to that of George Floyd…