CRIME & SAFETY
Three killed after wreck in Gadsden
GADSDEN, Ala. (WAFF) - Gadsden Police say three people were killed after a truck slammed into a motorcycle Monday. Police say the wreck happened yesterday afternoon just after 5:30 p.m. at the intersection of U.S. 411 and Walnut St. The motorcycle rider and two people in the truck were killed during the wreck. Police did not report any other injuries.
Execution date set for Alabama man convicted of killing driver at ATM
The execution date for a man convicted in the 1998 fatal shooting of a delivery driver who had stopped at an ATM has been set for July 18, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, will be put to death by lethal injection, which is the state's primary execution method.The announcement came a week after the Alabama Supreme Court authorized the execution to go forward. Gavin was convicted of capital murder for the shooting death of William Clinton Clayton, Jr. in Cherokee County in northeast Alabama. He was previously convicted of murder and attempted murder for shooting at...
COMIC: The roadside marker unlocking a forgotten civil rights murder
Historical markers are an iconic part of the American landscape. They appear by the sides of roads, in towns, at rest areas and even in the middle of nowhere. If you drive down U.S. 11, a couple of miles past Gadsden, Ala., you'll find a marker about the life and death of William Lewis Moore, who was murdered on a civil rights protest walk. The silence around Moore's murder bothered one man for years, until he started a campaign to put up a marker about it.
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