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Alabama Teacher Under Fire After Saying Kids Stink
The teacher, who ask to remain anonymous, said “Parents make sure your middle school kids take a shower before they come to school. They start stinking about age 11 and they don’t realize it. I walk into my classroom and it’s like getting hit in the nose with a baseball bat of ass!”
Bat infestation drives young family from their newly rented Montevallo home
MONTEVALLO, Ala. — A young family says they're caught between a home rental company and a colony of bats. They just moved from Mobile to Montevallo into a home they say is infested with bats. Now they say they're having a hard time getting the rental company to acknowledge the issue.
Man accused of shooting into occupied vehicle
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Saraland man is facing several charges after the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said he shot into an occupied vehicle. Twenty-nine-year-old Hunter Ray Walker was booked into the Mobile County Jail early Friday morning. The MCSO was called out to Lockwood Drive and Old Pascagoula...
Tyrenda Williams-Reed, 1st Black woman to win America’s Junior Miss, has died
Tyrenda Williams-Reed, who represented Alabama in the America’ Junior Miss program in 1997 and became the first Black woman to win the competition, has died, according to the Distinguished Young Woman program and other sources. America’s Junior Miss, a scholarship competition based in Mobile, became Distinguished Young Women in...
Eight Mile woman sentenced in 2020 murder
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — An Eight Mile woman was sentenced for her role in the 2020 murder of Randal Taylor, according to Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood. DA Blackwood shared on Facebook that a Mobile County Judge sentenced 37-year-old Amy Simmons Palmer to 20 years in prison, split to serve five years for […]
Jeff Dunham performing at Pensacola Bay Center for 'Artificial Intelligence' tour
Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is bringing his "Artificial Intelligence" tour to Pensacola this November. Dunham will perform at the Pensacola Bay Center on Nov. 21. Tickets are available now at JeffDunham.com and TicketMaster.com. According to his website, Dunham received a toy ventriloquist dummy for Christmas at age of 9, began to practice, and started dreaming...
Alabama public libraries scramble to update children’s sections
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Changes are coming to children’s books sections across Alabama as public library officials remove certain reading materials from shelves. The Alabama Public Library Service requires books containing “obscene content” to be removed from aisles geared for young readers. Under new code changes adopted last year, public libraries that do not cooperate […]
Alabama woman charged with murder after allegedly cutting man with knife, police say
An Alabama woman has been arrested and charged with murder after police said she cut a man she knew Thursday night. Jennifer Heathcoe, 31, of Mobile, Alabama, was arrested on murder charges in connection with the death of Taylor Rawlins, 33. Police were called to an apartment at 2889 Sollie...
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