An Alabama teen reportedly burned to death after trying to start a bonfire with five gallons of gasoline last week. According to WBRC, Sam Gean, 14, died after suffering significant burns on January 14 while attempting to ignite a fire with another teen in front of a home in Jefferson County. Authorities said that the …
An Alabama high school football star was reportedly arrested Wednesday in connection with last week’s fatal shooting of another teen. According to The Epoch Times, Jesse Altman, 17, was charged with capital murder for the shooting death Aaron “AJ” Huff, 18, of Gadsen. Altman, a defensive tackle at Etowah High, is the fifth teen to be arrested …
An Alabama man was reportedly held at gunpoint after being caught in a barn stall trying to molest a horse. Al.com reported that Daniel Bennett, 18, was caught trying to molest a 20-year-old horse named Polly Thursday night. Polly’s owner, Francine Janes, told police that she believed that the horse was tampered with on several occasions in …
Several former reporters for an Alabama-based newspaper have accused an ex-publisher of sexually assaulting them in the 1970s. According to the Alabama Political Reporter, several women who previously worked for The Anniston Star have accused H. Brandt Ayers, the paper’s former publisher, of assaulting them years earlier. One of the accusers, Veronica Pike Kennedy, claimed that Ayers …
The body of a Blount County, Alabama, teen was located on Christmas night, two weeks after he was reported missing. Al.com reports that the body of Christian Boyle, 18, along with his vehicle, silver Oldsmobile Alero, was found off of Cold Branch Road, according to Tim Kent of the Blount County Sheriff’s Office. His family reported him missing …
Four missing children from Arab, Alabama, were found safe and are on their way back to their grandmother’s house after their non-custodial parents reportedly kidnapped them. WHNT reports that Corbin, Alexander, Nicholas, and Ian Simmons disappeared on Dec. 9 from their grandmother’s home in Arab. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency issued a missing child alert shortly after …
An Alabama mother is facing criminal charges after police say she arrived drunk to pick up one of her children from school while a younger child rode in the backseat. According to the Birmingham News, 37-year-old Mary Elizabeth Stevenson pulled into the pickup line outside of Fort Payne Middle School around 3:30 p.m. Thursday. At …
Multiple fights—and a baby getting hit with a shoe—forced police to shut down one Alabama mall a half hour early Thursday night. WBRC reporter Steffany Means took to Facebook and revealed that someone threw a shoe over a railing, striking a baby. About 15 Hoover police officers responded to the Riverchase Galleria, following reports of multiple brawls …
An Alabama man allegedly admitted to bludgeoning his 70-year-old mother to death with her own oxygen tank because she “wouldn’t stop crying.” WALA reported that police responded to a Mobile residence at around 10 a.m. Friday and found Carol Croucher dead from blunt trauma to her head. Her son, Joseph Wood, 47, supposedly confessed to killing his ill …
An Alabama man with a previous attempted murder charge was arrested on Halloween night after he allegedly forced a woman into his trunk after robbing her home. The victim managed to pop the trunk open at a gas station, and in an incident caught on surveillance camera, climb her way out to safety. WFSA reports …
Authorities arrested an Alabama girl on Friday after she was accused of setting her younger brother on fire in their Dothan, Alabama, home. The Dothan Eagle reports that the 12-year-old allegedly took a bottle of hair spritz and doused all over her 10-year-old brother’s back before setting him on fire. The boy suffered severe burns …
A pelican was reportedly found dead in Alabama with electrical tape around its beak and rope wrapped around its wing and foot. WPMI reported that beachgoer Shawn Holland discovered the bird off a pathway on Weeks Bay, also known as Pelican Point. Holland said that he realized the bird had been tied up and tortured. “It …
