Sheriff and police authorities have been overwhelmed by all the people flooding into Louisville, Alabama, for Freaknik-inspired parties. The rural town of just 600 people saw nearly 1,000 people flood the streets to party recently for one such party. This one turned deadly. The authorities reported being unprepared […]
A police chief in Decatur, Alabama, is taking accountability for giving inaccurate information before officers shot and killed a homeowner during an incident with a tow truck driver, Associated Press reports. Decatur Police Chief Todd Pinion put out a statement admitting to rushing to releasing information and gave an inaccurate description […]
Dameion Pickett said someone had a private pontoon boat illegally positioned in the Harriott II’s space as it ended a dinner tour, preventing the riverboat from safely docking. The riverboat worker at the center of the viral brawl at Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, nearly two months […]
By Victor Omondi The Huntsville Police Department has launched an investigation into an incident captured Sunday night in a Facebook Live video showing several officers struggling with a man on the ground and one Huntsville police officer stomping on the man’s leg. incident occurred at a Mapco […]
The family of Nigel Shelby, a 14-year-old who took his life after he was repeatedly bullied over being gay, will file a lawsuit against the Huntsville Board of Education. Attorneys Ben Crump, co-counsel Jasmine Rand, local counsel Lynn Sherrod, and David J. Johns, Executive Director of […]
(CNN)It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. […]
(CNN)Alabama State University (ASU) is the latest entity to remove the name of a controversial figure from its building. The university removed the name of former Alabama governor Bibb Graves from a residence hall on Wednesday. Graves was propelled into political power in the […]
The Sultana Faded blue uniforms hung loosely on their gaunt bodies. Weakened by months of starvation, disease and brutality in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia and Cahaba, Alabama, many of the recently released soldiers that crowded the wharf at Vicksburg, Mississippi could […]
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