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Alabama has executed man convicted of killing delivery driver during a 1998 robbery attempt
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a delivery driver during a robbery attempt in 1998 was executed Thursday evening in Alabama. Keith Edmund Gavin was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. CDT following a chemical injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in southwest Alabama, authorities said. The 64-year-old inmate was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of William Clayton Jr. in Cherokee County.
3-year-old Georgia girl drowns after falling off dock in Alabama: ‘Horrible tragedy’
A 3-year-old Georgia girl drown over the weekend in an east Alabama Lake. Kinley Nicole Anderson was with family at Weiss Lake in Cherokee County when she disappeared late Saturday afternoon. Sheriff’s deputies, along with Leesburg Police and Fire, Cherokee County EMA, Cherokee County Rescue Squad, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency...
Anticipate strong thunderstorms in Cherokee County Wednesday evening
The National Weather Service issued a weather alert at 5:31 p.m. on Wednesday for strong thunderstorms until 6 p.m. for Cherokee County. Residents may experience wind gusts of up to 40 mph. "At 5:31 p.m., Doppler radar tracked strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Sand Rock to Cherokee...
Alabama Death Row inmate denied handwritten appeal to stop his execution
Alabama Death Row inmate Keith Gavin had said in a court filing by his attorneys last month he didn’t plan any more appeals of his scheduled lethal-injection execution Thursday for the 1998 murder of man at a bank ATM in Cherokee County. But in the past few weeks he...
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