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  • Man charged with Harvest murder worked in Sen. Tom Butler’s campaign office

    03/11/2024 12:32:48 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 8 replies
    WHNT ^ | Mar 8, 2024 | Maggie Matteson, Josiah Elmore, Logan Sparkman
    The man charged with murder after the Madison County Sheriff’s Office found a body in Harvest Thursday has apparent ties to the Alabama and Madison County GOP including working in Senator Tom Butler’s office. Kyle Lewter was charged with the murder of 54-year-old Derek Walls after the Madison County Sheriff’s Office found a body at a home on Capshaw Road. Campaign finance records and social media posts show Lewter has ties to the Alabama GOP and was in a paid position for Sen. Butler’s campaign office. A social media post by Sen. Butler in May 2022 identifies “Kyle Lewter” as...
  • Watchdog sounds alarm as feds near approving 10-knot maritime speed limit

    03/07/2024 5:39:43 AM PST · by Red Badger · 48 replies
    Just The News ^ | March 6, 2024 10:48pm | By Ben Whedon
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed a 10-knot speed limit for much of the Atlantic coast in a bid to protect the Whale population. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As the federal government nears final approval for a 10-knot maritime speed limit along the East Coast, the Southeastern legal Foundation is warning that such a move would adversely impact the economies of coastal communities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed a 10-knot speed limit for much of the Atlantic coast in a bid to protect the whale population. Violators could face up to $20,000 in fines and one...
  • Alabama Republican becomes the first House incumbent to lose a 2024 primary

    03/06/2024 2:33:45 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 17 replies
    NBC News ^ | 3/6/24 | Scott Wong
    Rep. Barry Moore has defeated Rep. Jerry Carl in a rare incumbent-vs.-incumbent Republican primary spurred by a Supreme Court decision forcing Alabama to adopt redrawn congressional districts, NBC News projects. Moore’s Super Tuesday victory is a win for the House Freedom Caucus — the band of far-right, anti-establishment rabble rousers that frequently clashes with GOP leadership and whose super PAC backed Moore. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a former Freedom Caucus member, campaigned alongside Moore over the weekend in Alabama.Never Carl, a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee and the Republican Study Committee, is more closely aligned with the business...
  • Alabama mother Mahogany Jackson was stripped, tortured and forced to perform sex acts on gang of four men and four women before being shot in back of the head in sickening kidnapping and murder that they filmed, cops say

    03/05/2024 6:08:45 PM PST · by Morgana · 79 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 5, 2024 | Alice Wright
    An Alabama mother was kidnapped and tortured for hours before being gang-raped and murdered by a gang of eight, police say. Mahogany Jackson, 20, was stripped, handcuffed, beaten, spit on and forced to perform sex acts at gunpoint in a Birmingham apartment before being shot in the back of the head on Sunday February 25. Her torturers were four men and four women, according to prosecutors. Around 8am on February 25 Jackson messaged family members to say she was being held hostage in apartment 3 at Serenity Apartments in southwest Birmingham. The mother's body was found in the early-morning hours...
  • Venezuela Is Exporting Its Violent Crime Problem to US, Thanks to Biden

    03/05/2024 7:41:36 AM PST · by george76 · 19 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | March 05, 2024 | Jarrett Stepman
    Violent crime is going down in Venezuela just as the United States has been hit with a rash of high-profile violent crimes by illegal immigrants. It’s not hard to figure out why. The killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, has become the latest and most prominent case of an American being killed as a consequence of President Joe Biden’s open-border policies. The man being held in connection with the killing of Riley is Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who reportedly entered the United States in 2022. Since his arrival in the U.S., he...
  • Explosive Device Detonated Outside Alabama AG’s Office, No Injuries Reported

    02/26/2024 6:05:01 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/26/2024 | Katherine Hamilton
    An explosive device was detonated outside of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office early Saturday morning, he said in a statement on Monday. Marshall said that “no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion.” “In the early hours of Saturday, February 24, an explosive device was detonated outside of the Alabama Attorney General’s Office building in Montgomery,” Marshall said. “Thankfully, no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will be leading the investigation, and we are urging anyone with information to contact them immediately.”
  • Prominent Alabama judge shot in domestic dispute, son taken into custody

    02/25/2024 2:55:59 AM PST · by CFW · 46 replies
    Just the News ^ | 2/24/24 | John Solomon
    A prominent Alabama state judge was seriously wounded Saturday when a domestic dispute escalated into a shooting, and authorities took his adult son into custody. Montgomery County Judge Johnny Hardwick, a jurist for more than two decades and the current president of the Alabama Association of Circuit Court Judges, was listed in serious condition Saturday evening after undergoing surgery. Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham said Hardwick’s 36-year-old son, Khalfani Hardwick, was arrested shortly after the shooting occurred. [snip] Khalfani Hardwick pled guilty in June 2017 to shooting and wounding a man in the head in Montgomery in 2014, according to...
  • Warnings of the impact of fertility treatments in Alabama rush in after frozen embryo ruling

    02/21/2024 8:23:07 AM PST · by thefactor · 49 replies
    AP ^ | 2/21/2024 | Kim Chandler
    The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a decision critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatment in the state.
  • More than 30% of Alabama Hyundai workers support effort to join UAW

    02/01/2024 10:43:16 AM PST · by Tell It Right · 18 replies
    UPI via Breitbart ^ | 2/1/2024 | UPI
    Feb. 1 (UPI) — The United Auto Workers union said Thursday that Hyundai workers have signed up more than 30% of the auto workers at a plant in Alabama for an organizing campaign to join the union.
  • Former senator says new film shows ‘how close’ we came to losing democracy on Jan. 6

    01/28/2024 3:29:56 AM PST · by RandFan · 83 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/27/24 8:18 PM ET | BY FILIP TIMOTIJA
    Former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D) said that the new film “War Game” shows “how close” the U.S. came to losing democracy on Jan. 6, 2021. During his appearance on CNN Saturday, the former lawmaker was asked by anchor Jim Acosta to share his thoughts about the new movie which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week. Jones, who was acting as the attorney general in the movie, said that the film is a reminder for the public about the possible outcomes of the attack on the Capitol. “I think that these kinds of films are very, very important...
  • White House ‘deeply troubled’ over execution of man using nitrogen gas in Alabama

    01/26/2024 12:26:32 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 77 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/26/2024 | BRETT SAMUELS
    The White House said Friday it was “deeply troubled” after Alabama executed a man using nitrogen gas in a first-of-its-kind capital punishment. “The reports of Kenneth Smith and his death last night obviously is very troubling. It is very troubling to us as an administration, it is very troubling to us here at the White House,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. “The president has long said and has had deep deep concerns with how the death penalty is implemented and whether it is consistent … with our values,” she added. Smith was put to death Thursday in Alabama night...
  • First death row inmate executed by nitrogen gas suffered ‘horrific’ death

    01/26/2024 11:44:52 AM PST · by RandFan · 166 replies
    Metro ^ | Jan 26 | Tom Sanders
    A witness to the first ever US prisoner to be executed by ‘painless’ nitrogen gas says Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed in agony as he suffered a ‘horrific’ death. The killer-for-hire, 58, was fitted with a gas mask which was pumped full of 100% nitrogen gas at the execution chamber at the William C. Holman prison in Atmore, Alabama. State authorities had predicted unconsciousness within seconds and death within minutes. But instead Smith took 22 minutes to die, convulsing in his chair and tugging against his restraints for several minutes before losing consciousness. At one point as the killer thrashed against...
  • Alabama carries out first US nitrogen gas execution

    01/25/2024 9:08:57 PM PST · by RandFan · 94 replies
    BBC ^ | Jan 25 | BBC
    Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, the first time the method of capital punishment has been used in the US. Smith, 58, lost two final appeals to the Supreme Court and one to a federal appeals court, arguing the execution was a cruel and unusual punishment. In 2022, Alabama tried and failed to execute Smith by lethal injection. He was convicted in 1989 of murdering a preacher's wife, Elizabeth Sennett, in a killing-for-hire. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Smith is the first person to be put to death using pure nitrogen gas anywhere...
  • Kenneth Smith executed for 1988 slaying of Elizabeth Sennett

    01/25/2024 6:51:31 PM PST · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 20 replies
    y WAFF 48 Digital ^ | January 25, 2024 | By WAFF 48 Digital Staff and The Associated Press
    ATMORE, Ala. (WAFF) - The State of Alabama executed death row inmate Kenneth Smith on Thursday at the Holman Correctional Facility. The 58-year-old Smith was put to death with nitrogen gas, the first time that method was used in the United States. Smith is one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett. Prosecutors said he and the other man were each paid $1,000 to kill Sennett on behalf of her pastor husband, who was deeply in debt and wanted to collect on insurance. Sennett, 45, was found dead March 18, 1988, in her home with...
  • Supreme Court rules nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith WILL go ahead tomorrow: Denies death row killer's 11th hour request for mercy amid fears over first of its kind gas method

    01/24/2024 12:39:34 PM PST · by knighthawk · 55 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | January 24 2024 | JEN SMITH
    The Supreme Court has denied death row killer Kenneth Eugene Smith's last minute request for a stay in execution. Smith will be executed tomorrow in Atmore, Alabama, with nitrogen hypoxia. It will be the first execution of its kind in the US and first known nitrogen execution in the world. He had begged the court for mercy, citing experts concerns over the method despite previously requesting it.
  • Governor declares state of emergency as snow and ice head toward Alabama

    01/14/2024 7:26:18 PM PST · by know.your.why · 18 replies
    WTVY ^ | 01/14/24 | Ken Curtis
    DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - With frigid temperatures on the way, Governor Kay Ivey issued a state of emergency Sunday afternoon for portions of Alabama. “We are anticipating unusually cold temperatures in Alabama this week, so I am urging everyone to be prepared, take caution traveling and stay weather aware.” The areas of North Alabama listed in her declaration include Huntsville, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa.
  • ‘A light at the end of the tunnel’: Alabama doctor explains new weight loss drugs could curb state’s obesity crisis

    12/22/2023 8:49:45 AM PST · by Baladas · 34 replies
    WAFF48 ^ | Dec. 22, 2023 | Sean Dowling
    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - The newest class of weight loss drugs is being called the “Breakthrough of the year.” That’s because their benefits go beyond weight loss itself, according to the health publication, “Science.” The added health benefits and positive results led Dr. Hayley DeGraaff of Advanced Life Clinic in Huntsville to say these drugs actually live up to the hype and could help fight Alabama’s obesity crisis. Alabama has the third highest adult obesity rate in the country. The class of weight loss drugs described as the “Breakthrough of the Year,” by “Science,” are glucagon-like peptide-1 or GLP-1 drugs;...
  • Tuberville on Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ comments: ‘I’m mad he wasn’t tougher’

    12/19/2023 4:17:28 PM PST · by RandFan · 19 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/19/23 2:38 PM ET | BY TARA SUTER
    Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said he was “mad” former President Trump “wasn’t tougher” in recent comments he made about migrants “poisoning the blood of our country.” “I’m mad he wasn’t tougher than that, because have you seen what’s happening at the border?” the Alabama senator said Tuesday. In different events over the weekend, the former president said migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” The former president’s comments have resulted in negative reactions from both sides of the political aisle. A campaign spokesperson for President Biden said the former president had “parroted Adolf Hitler” at a Saturday rally. “Trump...
  • Alabama's plan for nitrogen gas execution slammed as 'hostile to religion' in lawsuit

    12/14/2023 12:51:28 PM PST · by Red Badger · 52 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | December 14, 2023 03:24 PM | by Luke Gentile, Social Media Producer
    Attorneys for the spiritual adviser of a soon-to-be executed inmate filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the restrictions placed upon the adviser due to the method of execution are "hostile to religion." Officials with the Alabama Department of Corrections instructed the Rev. Jeff Hood that it could be dangerous to his health when he stands by Kenneth Eugene Smith in the execution chamber, according to a report. Smith is slated to be the first inmate in Alabama to be put to death via nitrogen gas, and Hood purportedly was asked to sign a waiver recognizing the risks that could arise...
  • Black Alabama man, 24, tasered by female cop who told him 'your b**** a** ain't so tough now' breaks silence on 'traumatizing' arrest ordeal where he was also wrongly held on fentanyl charge

    12/08/2023 8:38:45 PM PST · by Angelino97 · 233 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | December 8, 2023 | Ishita Srivastava
    A black Alabama man who had been tasered by a white cop and arrested for trafficking fentanyl is now sharing his harrowing story. Officer Dana Elmore was seen on camera swearing and tasing Micah Washington, 24, with a stun gun while he was in handcuffs. He was charged with trafficking fentanyl, but the charge and its accompanying $500,000 bond were dropped after 'further testing' showed the substance in his possession was not the opioid drug. In an interview with ABC, Washington revealed what had happened during the incident and explained that he had never had a run-in or issue with...