Montgomery News

EUTAW - Modern tools that alert people to an emergency - digital highway signs, e-mail and cell phone messages - aren't always effective across the rural expanse of the Black Belt, but an older technology may fill the gap: radio.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:49 p.m. MONTGOMERY A former member of Gov.

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

A woman is in critical condition and a man is charged with attempted murder after a shooting early Thursday morning in Montgomery.

Okay here's a pop quiz, which famous author and his wife have a museum dedicated to them in Montgomery, Alabama? You might have said F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and you would be right.

The Save Alabama PACT group has organized caravans from several Alabama cities to attend a board meeting of the prepaid college tuition plan in Montgomery.

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts hosted a special 'thank you' recently for more than 100 individuals who have provided outstanding services to the museum's visitors and staff over the past year.

The Associated Press MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Attorney General Troy King is running for re-election while feuding with influential Republicans who would normally be his allies, including the top three GOP officeholders in the state.

A 'perk' of the job in municipal government has become a thing of the past, as city management follows through with cost-cutting measures proposed by Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange in the 2010 budget.

Bob Riley, as governor of Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Ala. a ' Gov. Bob Riley is lashing out at critics of a $13 million computer contract that his administration gave to a firm without a business phone listing or a Web site.

Montgomery Curb Market vendors are planning for some old-fashioned fun Saturday.

The swine flu is now being declared a national emergency and affecting millions of Americans right this minute, even taking lives.

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

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford waits outside the the Federal Building in Tuscaloosa, Ala, as the jury deliberates during his federal bribery trial Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

Bedzzz Express has opened a fourth store in the Montgomery market at 461-M N. East Blvd.

JACKSON - State inmate Waylon Lee Strickland who walked away from his work site Sunday is back in state custody.

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 ...

Only one Montgomery-area Regions location will close as part of the bank's branch consolidation movement.

WSFA 12 News is at the Montgomery Regional Airport, where a bomb threat is under investigation.

Temperatures are expected to dip into the mid- to upper 30s this morning, but it's unlikely the area will see a repeat of Monday's record-setting scattered frost.