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Marble-sized hail expected with thunderstorms in Lee and Russell counties Saturday
The National Weather Service issued a weather alert at 5:33 p.m. on Saturday for strong thunderstorms until 6 p.m. for Lee and Russell counties. The storms may bring wind gusts of up to 40 mph and marble-sized hail (0.5 inches). "At 5:33 p.m., Doppler radar tracked a strong thunderstorm near...
BREAKING: Convicted Kamarie Holland killer receives four death sentences
PHENIX CITY, Ala. (WRBL) — The man found guilty of brutally killing and raping 5-year-old Kamarie Holland in December of 2021 has received multiple death sentences in connection to his crimes. It took less than an hour before Circuit Court Judge David Johnson sentenced Jeremy Williams to death on these four charges: killing, kidnapping, raping […]
Live at Midday: Alabama organization to hold tomato preservation workshop
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — An organization based in Alabama is holding a workshop to help locals make the best out of the upcoming tomato season. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is bringing “Preserving the Harvest: Canning Tomatoes” to its Russell County office (508 14th Street in Phenix City) on Thursday, April 18 from 9 a.m. […]
Williams gets four death sentences for kidnapping, rape and murder of 5-year-old Kamarie Holland
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A Russell County Circuit Court judge sentenced a convicted child killer to four death sentences this morning in Phenix City. Jeremy Williams murdered, raped and brutalized 5-year-old Kamarie Holland on December 13th, 2001. Williams confessed to raping, sodomizing and killing Kamarie Holland. He pled guilty last month to the brutal crimes he […]
Kamarie Holland’s killer sentenced to death for 5-year-old girl’s rape, murder
The man who raped and murdered Kamarie Holland, the 5-year-old Georgia girl whose body was found in an abandoned east Alabama house, was sentenced to death Monday by a Russell County judge. Jeremy Williams, 40, who was convicted of four capital offenses for Kamarie’ rape and murder, was given the...
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