Alabaster News

The Alabaster Police Department is investigating an alleged sexual abuse incident reported May 16 in the 100 block of Yachtsman Drive.

ALZ025-220700- SHELBY AL- 113 AM CDT TUE MAY 22 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SHELBY COUNTY UNTIL 200 AM CDT... AT 111 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MEADOWBROOK TO HELENA TO 5 MILES WEST OF MAYLENE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

Alabaster resident Stacy Rakestraw will serve as Alabaster's Ward 3 councilwoman through November 2012 after she was appointed to fill the seat during a May 21 City Council meeting.

The Alabaster City Council during its May 21 meeting likely will appoint a person to fill the council's vacant Ward 3 seat after council members interviewed three candidates for the position during its May 17 work session.

A Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor airliner taxis at the Shelby County Airport in Alabaster, Ala., Thursday, May 17, 2012.

The Shelby School Board dismissed findings by DHR that Daniel Acker, Jr. sexually abused a former student and allowed him to keep his teaching job.

The first words Alabaster resident Ken Retherford wrote in a newspaper were captions to the photos he had taken as a 17-year-old. A few years later, his work helped bring the paper a Pulitzer Prize.

Planet Thrift new stoer in Alabaster needs a third person to help with production, register duties, customer service, and closing duties Will train appropriate candidates.

Most of us are familiar with the tireless work of the Shelby County Humane Society and other similar groups, such as Sanctuary Animal Rescue in Alabaster and Joe Jackson's Dog World located in Jemison.

A retired Birmingham police officer who also worked for two school systems is going to prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography.

State law allows convicted sex offender Daniel Acker, Jr. to receive more than $520,000 in state pension while serving a 17 prison sentence for sexually abusing six students.

The United States Attorney's Office says that a former security officer for the Birmingham City School System and substitute bus driver for Shelby County Schools has been sentenced for producing child pornography.

The Alabama Legislature gave final approval tonight to legislation cutting off the state pensions for public employees who commit crimes related to their government positions.

Alabaster has collected slightly more general fund revenue than projected through the first six months of the city's fiscal year, Mayor David Frings said during a May 7 City Council report.

When Daniel Acker Jr. chose to plead guilty to eight counts of sexually abusing underage girls during his long career as an Alabaster teacher, he brought about some closure in a sordid series of crimes spanning more than two decades.

Federal prosecutors recommend a judge sentence a former Birmingham schools security officer to 30 years in prison for the production of child pornography.

A group of investors have acquired the 312-unit Wellington Manor apartments in Alabaster for $22 million, and are planning to make more than $500,000 in renovations.

Daniel M. Acker Jr. of Alabaster: A child sexual molester who used his teaching position to abuse fourth-grade girls.

Within 90 days, retired fourth-grade teacher Daniel M. Acker Jr. will be in an AlA abama state prison after pleading guilty Thursday to eight counts of child sexual abuse.

A former Alabaster teacher pleads guilty to eight counts of sexually abusing his students.