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From The Tribune staff reports WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in Montgomery unsealed an indictment charging a former Elmore County Sheriff’s Deputy with depriving an arrestee of his civil rights under color of law on Friday, Nov. 3. According to a release from the Department of Justice, the indictment charges former Sheriff’s Deputy Blake

Parents Outraged Over Fitness Studio Announcing Pole-Dancing Class for Children On 5/27/21 at 12:32 PM EDT An Arkansas fitness center that specializes in pole-dancing exercise classes is receiving backlash from the local community after advertising a class for children. Vixens Fitness in Paragould—a city in the northeastern part of the state—has since removed its entire Facebook page, where it originally announced the Pole4Kids class. The program was described as a pole-dancing class for mo...

Alabama News A federal grand jury in Alabama returned a five-count indictment Wednesday charging two Alabama men, an Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) sergeant and corrections officer, with assaulting an inmate at ADOC’s Staton Correctional Facility and making false statements following the assault. According to court documents, Sergeant Devlon Williams, 35 and Correctional Officer Larry Managan Jr. 39, of Montgomery assaulted the inmate by striking him with their feet and with a colla...

2 Alabama prison officers indicted on federal charges in beating of inmate Updated Mar 10, 2021; Two state prison employees have been indicted in the assault of an inmate and for false statements made to investigators after the assault. The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the five-count indictment again Staton Correctional Facility Sgt. Devlon Williams, 34, and correctional Officer Larry Managan Jr., 39. Few details have been released about the incident, including when it hap...