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10 Year Anniversary of the EF-4 Tornado that Hit Elmore County Today marks the ten year anniversary of the April 27, 2011 tornado outbreak in Alabama. On that day, a series of storms across the state demolished homes, tore down trees, and claimed hundreds of lives. Governor Ivey has proclaimed today as a Day of Remembrance in Alabama. It’s been a decade since that tornado outbreak killed more than 250 people across the state There were more than 60 tornadoes that hit the state of Alabama in a single day, making it one of the most devastating severe weather days in Alabama History.One of the...

Alabama News The Montgomery City Council will be voting to re-name the road Jeff Davis Avenue. The plan is to name the road after Attorney Fred Gray. Gray is well known for being Rosa Parks’ lawyer along with being on the front lines of a lot of the civil rights movement in Montgomery. Gray is a Montgomery native, his childhood home is on Jeff Davis Ave. The City Council will put the name change to a vote Tuesday afternoon. In addition to Gray being a civil rights activist, he also served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives for 44 years helping to make changes all over Alaba...

Alabama News The city of Montgomery and the Montgomery County Historical Society teamed up for the Oakwood Cemetery Project. They had a ribbon cutting early Friday morning to announce the start of the digital project. This project is open to volunteers who want to help find the exact location of all of the people buried in this local cemetery. The Montgomery County Historical Society is setting the record straight by Geo-locating and updating records of burial sites in the Oakwood cemetery. The Oakwood Cemetery Project will verify name, date of birth, date of death, an GPS grave site the loca...

Alabama News National Public Safety Telecommunications Week was held April 11 through April 17th. Four members of the telecommunications department received awards today including dispatcher of the year and supervisor of the year. Mayor Steven Reed was in attendance to give recognition to the department and share a few encouraging words to the employees. The telecommunications department are true first responders since they are the ones who answer the 911 calls. Since the pandemic first started they have been working harder than ever to ensure the safety of the community whenever a call is pl...

Alabama News Senators Clyde Chambliss and Bobby Singleton are sponsoring a bill that will take funds from the statewide property tax that is tied to the confederacy, to help preserve and promote black history. Alabama First Created this tax to help confederate soldiers and their widows after the war. The state has continued to collect taxes ever since. Most of the revenue is used for other purposes, but 1% goes to the state’s Confederate Memorial Park  in Mountain Creek. The two senators want to sponsor a bill that will preserve park funding, but also require that Alabama spend an equal 1%...