Tim Lockette News Today

Answers aren’t always easy to come by in the real world when you’re a kid.

Less than one year ago in reviewing Lockette’s “Atty at Law,” I included the hope that the successful debut novel by the “Anniston Star” writer would be the first of many.

This Alabama school system fired teachers, gave administrators $20,000 in bonuses Updated 7:29 PM; By Tim Lockette The Anniston Star, Ala. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services Anniston’s school board on Tuesday voted to pink-slip more than a dozen teachers and teachers’ aides, then in a separate vote approved roughly $20,000 in one-time bonuses to administrators. One member of the board said the bonus vote took the school system in the wrong direction. “This board has...

“It’s hard to watch someone you love die,” said her husband, Jerry Free.

Alabama man linked to 1997 murder for hire, attempted murder jailed on gun charge after gambling raid Posted May 11, 2021 By Tim Lockette The Anniston Star, Ala. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services An Anniston man arrested on federal firearms charges last month will stay in custody pending his trial, a federal magistrate judge ruled on Friday. Jack David Stovall, 72, will remain in jail because “no condition or combination of conditions of release will reasonably assure ...

Nurses Speak Out: Fear, Exhaustion, Patients Dying Alone Patients would arrive typically short of breath and often fearful for their lives. For days or weeks, their only companions were nurses and the faces of loved ones on a screen. Some said their final goodbyes that way. by Tim Lockette, The Anniston Star, Ala. / January 25, 2021 TNS (TNS) - Jan. 23—After months as nurse manager in one of Regional Medical Centers COVID-19 units, Cindy...

Jail inmates aren’t next on the list for shots, but it’s likely they’ll get the vaccine before a lot of other healthy Alabamians.