The father of a 14-year-old Alabama girl reported missing nearly 12 years ago has been charged with her death. Mobile Police Cpl. Katrina Frazier said a Mobile County grand jury indicted Demetric Hooper on murder charges in the death of Brittany Robinson, AL.com reported. Hooper is in jail in Oklahoma City on unrelated charges but …
Police in western Alabama have charged a man with murder after the body of a missing woman was found floating in a body of water. Sabrina Danielle Harbin, 35, was last seen Tuesday night walking east on Jackson Street in Demopolis. WSFA reported. Police and firefighters searched the area for her with boats, drones, and …
An Alabama police officer has been charged with a misdemeanor for making multiple “swatting” phones calls — while on duty — because “he thought it was funny.” Christopher Eugene Sanspree Jr., 23, has been placed on administrative leave from his job with the Montgomery Police Department after his arrest by Prattville Police, who said he …
Two Alabama teens have been arrested and charged with the murder of a 16-year-old Montgomery high school student who was found shot to death days after he was reported missing. Michael Anthony Cole Jr. was found dead Monday, and Nedvin Maynard Jones Jr. and Nicholas Treyvon King-Sheppard, both 18, have been arrested, AL.com reported. Charging …
Kenneth Eugene Smith convulsed for four minutes Thursday night as the state of Alabama carried out the first ever execution by nitrogen gas. Smith, convicted in 1996 of carrying out the 1989 murder-for hire of Elizabeth Sennett, was pronounced dead just before 8:30 p.m., the Montgomery Advertiser reported. Sennett’s husband, Church of Christ pastor Charles …
Alabama’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a death row inmate seeking to stop the state’s first-in-the-nation nitrogen hypoxia execution. The state tried but failed to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith in November by lethal injection, then announced it was ready to try the experimental execution in which the condemned man will breathe pure nitrogen …
An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a 5-year-old Alabama boy while he was getting a hair cut over the weekend, and police say they are looking for other suspects who were with the man they’ve arrested. Kendrick Rondell O’Neal, 26, has been charged with capital murder in the death of Brandon …
A 5-year-old Alabama boy was shot dead Sunday morning and a man critically injured when someone opened fire at a house in a Birmingham suburb. Bessemer Police said the shooting took place at about 10 a.m. The victims were outside the home, where the boy’s mother had brought her son to get a haircut. The …
Pope Francis has formally removed an Alabama priest who ran off to Italy with an 18-year-old woman and later returned to the United States and married her. The priest, Alex Crow, requested the process, called laicization, the Archdiocese of Mobile said in a statement. The Archdiocese of Mobile removed Crow from his post last summer …
An Alabama man was arrested Thursday night after he wrecked his vehicle into a pole in a Bass Pro Shop parking lot, stripped naked, ran into the store and did a cannonball into a large fish tank inside the store. George Owens, 42, was charged with public lewdness, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assault on a …
