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Justice Department Settles with Alabama Moving Company Two Men and a Truck over Hepatitis-C Discrimination

BIRMINGHAM – The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Kemper Moving Systems Inc., a Huntsville franchise of Two Men and a Truck, to resolve allegations that the moving company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it refused service because of a customer’s Hepatitis-C, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.

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Man that killed Deshler coach gets life in prison

Jeremy Leshun Williams

 

FLORENCE-31-year-old Jeremy Leshun Williams was sentenced to life in prison this morning by Lauderdale County Presiding Circuit Court Judge Mike T. Jones for the murder of Deshler coach Brioni Rutland.

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Former Talladega Correctional Officer Indicted for Accepting Bribe to Smuggle Phone to Inmate

BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted a former corrections officer at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega on charges she accepted a bribe in exchange for providing a cell phone to an inmate, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Special Agent in […]

Former Army Employee at Redstone Indicted for Submitting False Tax Return

BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today indicted a former U.S. Army Contracting Command employee for submitting a false federal income tax return for 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.

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Stevenson Police Chief Charged with Civil Rights Offenses for Assaulting Arrestee

BIRMINGHAM –A federal grand jury today indicted Stevenson Police Chief Daniel Winters, 55, on two counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law, announced the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.

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State health officials continue to look at lead levels in children

The Alabama Department of Public Health has been working with the medical community to evaluate blood lead levels in children for decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that children be screened for lead at 12 and 24 months. However, lead testing as part of health screenings is at the […]

Alabama among 29 states calling on US Supreme Court to stay EPA’s clean power plan

(MONTGOMERY) – Attorney General Luther Strange announced that Alabama is among a bipartisan coalition of 29 states and state agencies asking the United States Supreme Court to immediately halt the Obama administration’s unlawful and job-killing Clean Power Plan. The states argue that the Environmental Protection Agency’s unprecedented attempt to reorder the nation’s […]

Dekalb county LPN arrested for theft of controlled substances

BOAZ – Attorney General Luther Strange announced the arrest of a former employee of a Boaz area nursing facility for theft of narcotics. Cheryl Hamm, 39, of Rainsville, surrendered at the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department and was released on $1,500.00 bond.

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Judge who forced defendants to give blood or go to jail censured after complaint filed

Perry County Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins

The Alabama Court of the Judiciary censured a circuit court judge Friday who forced defendants unable to pay court debt to give blood or face jail time – three months after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed an ethics complaint against the judge.

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MEDICAL NEWS: UAB among first to offer women innovative solution to loss of bowel control

BIRMINGHAM — More than 20 million women in the United States suffer from loss of bowel control, sometimes called accidental bowel leakage or fecal incontinence, and Alabama resident Rhonda Green was one of them. Green’s life was put on hold as she suffered from loss of bowel control for more than nine […]

Missing teen located, safe at home with family

Madison Rhodes

MUSCLE SHOALS-(SHOALS INSIDER) Police tell the Shoals Insider runaway Madison Rhodes has been located.

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Senator Shelby questions Alabama AG Luther Strange on gun control policy

Video released of fatal Opelika shooting

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Shoals Insider – Keeping You Informed

FORMER MADISON COUNTY DEPUTY PLEADS GUILTY TO LYING UNDER OATH TO OBSTRUCT INVESTIGATION INTO BEATING

Justin Watson following the incident with Robert Bryant. (Madison County Sheriff’s Office)

HUNTSVILLE – Former Madison County Sheriff’s Deputy Justin Watson, 31, pleaded guilty today to obstructing a federal investigation into the beating of a local handyman, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and the Justice Department announced.

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This is what the world would be like if the Russians had won.

If you are from Alabama you have probably heard Sweet Home Alabama several million times. Here’s another version of it.

I scream, you scream: Blue Bell to start appearing in Shoals area stores next week

 

SYLACAUGA – Blue Bell Ice Cream enters the next phase of its market re-entry plan, with limited flavors, over a two-week period beginning Jan. 18.

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Alabama State GOP asks Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard to step down

Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives Mike Hubbard (Photo courtesy: Lee County Sheriff’s Department)

 

MONTGOMERY-A resolution was passed on Sunday, January 10, by the leadership of the Alabama Republican Party asking Alabama Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard to step down as Speaker until his 23 felony ethics charges are resolved.

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Federal Jury Convicts Jefferson County Man for Receiving, Distributing and Possessing Child Pornography

BIRMINGHAM – A federal jury recently convicted a Jefferson County man on multiple charges of receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Secretary Spencer Collier.

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Alabama Dept. of Public Health investigating Salmonella outbreak

PELHAM-According to reports, four individuals who had eaten at Johnny Ray’s in Pelham, Alabama (309 Huntley Parkway) tested positive for Salmonella. Two have matching patterns of a rare Salmonella Enteritidis. Other potential cases of Salmonella are being investigated.

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Troopers donate used vests to Armor of God Project

Troopers with Armor of God founder Clint Reck

MUSCLE SHOALS-State Troopers or as they are more recently called ALEA (Alabama Law Enforcement Agency) on Friday, Jan. 8, donated 38 ballistic vests to the Muscle Shoals-based non-profit organization Armor of God Project. Since 2009, Armor of God Project has distributed more […]