Montgomery County News

As Speaker of the House Seth Hammett begins the final year of what he says will be his final term in office, area residents can count more than $18 million for 55 projects brought home to this district in the current quadrennium.

The attempted murder/domestic violence case Montgomery police officers have been working on much of the day Thursday is now being upgraded to murder.

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A Troy man has been charged with shooing his estranged wife, who was holding a child, at another person.

Federal, state and military officials are investigating the discovery of about 100 pounds of explosives in Montgomery County.

Officials say the downturn in the economy has led to far greater exploitation of the elderly as younger family members prey upon older relatives.

Friday morning started out like any other day for Herman McClendon. Wood-working in his carport when things suddenly didn't connect.

A legislative oversight committee has gone to court to stop a $13 million no-bid computer contract between Gov.

Montgomery County District Attorney Ellen Brooks said she wants to open Alabama's first Family Justice Center by January, and that push is finding support -- even financial support -- among local elected officials.

Reform-minded Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne, who, as former chancellor of Alabama's two-year college system has been credited with cleaning up an entrenched culture of institutional corruption inside the post secondary system, today announced a distinguished group of Montgomery business and community leaders who have committed ...

River Region arts organizations believe the show must go on, but they'll have to put it on using less funding in the coming year.

The city plans to turn its 311 disaster hotline into a permanent information hotline where resi dents can issue complaints and ask questions about city govern ment.

A Montgomery County circuit judge has ordered Alabama to pay the first of what may be many refunds in the more than a decade-old lawsuit over Alabama's franchise tax.

"Future home of the Family Justice Center" read a sign hanging from a building that a group of influential Montgom ery leaders is trying to pull off the market and turn into the first Family Justice Center in Alabama.

Alabamians are tired of seeing murderers sit for decades on death row. A number of years ago, a crime package from the Attorney General's office included language aimed at streamlining the appeals process.

Longtime former Montgomery County Board of Education member Henry Spears has died.

Much has been said and written lately about character, with the debate emanating from the hullabaloo over the issue of Superintendent Barbara Thompson's 'Ph.D. status.' Consider this: Absolutely nothing came to light about this issue while Ms.

Annie Williams was supposed to make it. Unlike so many women who have been the victim of domestic violence, she had divorced an abusive husband and was raising her four children on her own.

In a tough economy, investigators in the Montgomery County district attorney's Worthless Check Unit said business owners are less likely to let money owed from a bad check go unpaid.

A drive along a North Montgomery Road has a devastating outcome for two people. Their car collided with a van on Lower Wetumpka Road near Williams Drive.