Montgomery AL

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - What started as a routine day off playing pickleball quickly turned into a life-saving attempt for Montgomery Fire & Rescue Lieutenant Demetrius Gilmore at the YMCA on Bell Road. “This was the first time anything like this has happened to me off duty,” Gilmore said.

Last night I read about David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17), one of the best-known stories of the Bible. Symbolically, this is the situation Jackson Hospital finds itself in today. Before we took over the operation of Jackson Hospital, we completed thousands of hours of due diligence. Our conclusion? It was simply too big

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAKA) – Montgomery police need your help as they seek a car they believe is connected to a shooting. The shooting happened at around 11:20PM on Saturday, June 6, in the 3000 block of Barksdale Street. That location is between Lower Wetumpka Road and Fairground Road. Police...

A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday denied Jackson Hospital’s emergency request to force Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama to increase reimbursement rates, leaving the Montgomery hospital without the immediate relief it sought as a June 25 deadline approaches. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher L. Hawkins denied

Braylon Jackson earned an Alabama offer after working out at camp in front of the Crimson Tide’s coaching staff this week. Jackson is a rising junior at Prattville High School in Alabama, and he is a member of the 2028 recruiting class. Alabama is the first SEC and first Power Four program to offer Jackson. He holds pr

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (WAKA) – A third person has been sentenced to federal prison in the 2024 robbery at a credit union ATM in Prattville. U.S. Attorney Thomas Govan says 34-year-old Dominique Jeremiah Pearson of Spring, Texas, has been sentenced to 77 months in prison after pleading guilty to bank robbery. Upon completion

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WRBL) — Gov. Kay Ivey announced on Thursday that 130 jobs are coming to Alabama as Vulcaflex S.p.A., an Italian manufacturer of synthetic leathers used in the automotive industry, will open its first U.S. facility in Auburn. Vulcaflex is a family-owned company founded in 1965 in Cotignola,...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WAKA) – A man accused of pretending to be a social service caseworker to try to lure a child into his car and proposition him for sexual acts has been found. guilty of enticing a child for immoral purposes. Montgomery County District Attorney Azzie Oliver says in...

A Montgomery man was arrested on Wednesday on capital murder and other related charges stemming from a 2025 homicide in Brewton. Connie Ray Robbins, 37, of Montgomery, was arrested on warrants issued by the Brewton Police Department charging him with Capital Murder, Discharging a Firearm into an Occupied Vehicle, and t

(RNS) — The Equal Justice Initiative’s Bryan Stevenson says confronting America’s lynching history is a matter of faith that demands truth-telling and repentance — especially on America’s most recently recognized national holiday.