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Fort Payne man found dead in Alabama prison
A Marshall County man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter has died in an Alabama prison. Wesley Abernathy, 31, was “discovered in medical distress in an outside area” at Bullock Correctional Facility on Sunday, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. ADOC siad he was taken to the Health...
Rainbow City Police investigating car dealership theft
RAINBOW CITY, Ala. (WBRC) - Rainbow City Police are looking for thieves who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cars, equipment, and dozens of keys. Friday morning, Devan-Lowe Operations Manager Mark Hamilton received a phone call from his technician who came to work early. He was told an Escalade he was working on was missing, and his garage door was up.
Twin siblings, 102, have Gadsden street dedicated in their honor
Two weeks after celebrating their 102nd birthdays, twins Lonzie Gray and Vernia Gray Ray were honored by the Gadsden City Council. The council on May 7 approved the honorary designation of Sunnyvale Drive, where the siblings live, as Ray-Gray Drive. The city will post signs to that effect. Council member...
Etowah County cracking down on delinquent business licenses
Etowah County business licenses are due for renewal in October (they run through the following September), but with summer in sight a significant chunk of them remain delinquent. And county officials — who have been pressing scofflaws to pay up since November — have reached the limits of their patience....
Flood dangers rise as storms dump more rain on Alabama
A wet weather pattern is expected to dump several inches of rain over Alabama through Tuesday, which could cause widespread flash flooding. The National Weather Service office in Birmingham is forecasting 1 to 1-and-a-half inches for Tuscaloosa and Gadsden, 2 to 4 inches for the Montgomery area and 3 to 5 inches for a large portion of Southwest Alabama from Camden south and west.
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