MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied a parole request Tuesday from David Ray Alexander, who is serving a 20-year sentence on various crimes including unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle in Colbert County, according to corrections records. Alexander has served more than 9 years of a 20-year sentence, according to the department.
FLORENCE, AL – The University of North Alabama’s summer session enrollment and credit-hour production increased more than 20 percent this year compared to the 2019 summer session, university officials said.
The Shoals has had 354 cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus thus far, while the state has surpassed the 16,000 mark, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
In Revelation chapter 20, between Satan being locked up in the Abyss for a thousand years (verses 1-3) and afterwards his release, and immediate rebellion, and then his sudden descent into the Lake of Fire, where he will be tormented forever and ever (verses 7-10) is sandwiched the prophecy of the wrapping up of the first resurrection.
HUNTSVILLE– A chiropractor with offices in Florence and Huntsville is facing drug trafficking charges in Madison County.
Dr. Chad Eddie Mathey, 48, 35 Cypress Grove Lane, Huntsville, is facing trafficking of marijuana charges.
Mathey and Javonia Mathey were arrested in Madison County at 10:47 p.m. on May 21 and released on May 22.
Mathey operates an office in Florence and in Huntsville as Crown Medical Center.
According to the complaint made by the drug agent, the two “did knowingly have or were in actual or constructive possession of over 2.2 pounds of marijuana”
Mathey and Jovonia were released from the Madison County Jail on $5,000 bail each.
SHEFFIELD- Authorities have officially charged a Tuscumbia man in the early morning shooting death of Jonathan Eugene Nipper on Monday.
According to Sheffield Police Chief Ricky Terry, Mario Leshawn Richardson, 39, of 1408 East Decatur Street, Tuscumbia, has been charged with murder, which is a class A felony.
MONTGOMERY – Gov. Kay Ivey announced today she has given the authorization to activate up to 1,000 Alabama National Guard members if needed to respond to violent protesters.
FLORENCE– Lauderdale County authorities have arrested a 23- year-old who led police on a high-speed chase through three counties.
Deputies with the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Department arrested Quinton Marlow Keel, who apparently fled a court ordered rehab from a 2020 drug case in Lauderdale County.
Police say Keel was in a stolen car. The chase reportedly started in Lawrence County and progressed through Colbert into Lauderdale county into the city of Florence.
Keel was arrested at the intersection of Pine Street and Court Street.
According to authorities, Keel is being held in the Lauderdale County Detention Center without bond on two alias warrants. He is now facing possible escape charges and theft of property charges and a possession of methamphetamine charge, not to mention resisting arrest.
The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied requests this week from three inmates serving on convictions in local crimes, officials said. The board will hear requests Thursday from two other inmates convicted of Shoals crimes. The board denied paroles for David Bryan Hodges, Vennis Minoso Oates and Fred Junior Johnson, said Terry Abbott, director of communications for the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles.
FLORENCE – The 39th annual Spirit of Freedom Celebration scheduled for July 4, 2020, at McFarland Park in Florence has been rescheduled. The new date for the event is November 11, 2020, on Veterans Day.
FLORENCE – Police have charged a domestic violence suspect with disarming a law enforcement officer after the man removed an officer’s baton and tried to attack him with it, authorities said.
The incident occurred while Dalton B. Coyer, 30, was being arrested by an officer who responded to a domestic violence call, police Capt. Brad Holmes said.
When the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles resumes parole hearings this month, seven inmates with cases that have Shoals connections will be scheduled for hearings. The board resumes hearings on May 19 after postponing them due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Terry Abbott, communications director for the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles.
There are 161 scheduled for this month, including these seven:
LEIGHTON/BRICK HATTON – Two Ohio residents lost their lives in a single vehicle crash on Second Street Tuesday night.
The crash occurred around 7:00 p.m.
The driver and passenger of a 2008 Ford Focus, who were from Cincinnati, Ohio, were killed when their vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree on the driver’s side.
State Troopers say excessive speed was a factor in the crash.
The crash occurred on AL.184/ 2nd Street in Colbert County approximately 3 miles east of Muscle Shoals.
Both occupants of the vehicle were pronounced dead on the scene by Colbert County Deputy Coroner Matt Moore.
The names of the victims will not be released until the next of kin are notified.
The two were reportedly in town visiting family in Lawrence County.
Alabama State Troopers continue to investigate the crash.
FLORENCE – Florence Utilities is alerting the public to a scam that involves a caller claiming to be with their department. City spokeswoman Rachel Mansell said the caller threatens to cut off utilities service for non-payment and asks for payment through PayPal or asks for bank account information.
A millennium is a 1000-year period of time. Between the Second Coming of Jesus which will end this evil age and the creation of the New Heaven and New Earth, that time of universal peace on earth will be sandwiched in. It will be the same terrestrial globe we are now living on before it is renovated, but it will not be in the same condition as now; for the curse will be lifted. Which means there will be no sickness, poverty, pain or untimely death during that time—for those who do not rebel. But, the fact that we resurrected saints under Christ will rule with a “rod of iron” those survivors of the Battle of Armageddon implies that some during that thousand-year slice of eternity will not right-up-front willingly fit in with the absolute rule of that Total Theocracy—God rule.
The Shoals area now has a super-sized liquor store on 2nd Street in Muscle Shoals.
Nationwide, alcohol sales have increased dramatically due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus. The management at Shoals Liquor II came prepared as the store has thousands of different choices.
That next verse is Revelation 19:20. First, the Antichrist and his false prophet, who will deceive with his false miracles those who receive the mark of the beast, and those who worship that image the false prophet will have made of the beast—Antichrist—will be captured and cast alive into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone. Will angels handle that chore, or will Christ Himself do the honors? Consider Matthew 10:28.
CENTER STAR- A physician who had a clinic in Center Star has had her license revoked and owes a $60,000 fine after an Alabama Board of Medical Examiners say she committed fraud and overprescribed controlled substances.