MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The donation amount continues to rise for a homeless Bostonian who found a backpack with more than $40,000 in cash and checks inside and returned it without taking a single penny. After hearing the story of Boston resident Glen James' extraordinary honesty, an Alabama native stepped up as well, giving the situation a two-fold reason to restore faith in humanity. Ethan Whittington took action and is now making headlines of his own. A friend had recently told him about a website for crowd-funding, and he decided to set up an account. If strangers stopped giving right now, Continue reading >>>

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - An East Texas bus driver has been fired after telling students to get off her bus. Last Friday, witnesses saw around twenty Forest Park middle school students get off the bus and start walking on Garfield Drive, crossing High Street, a busy four lane road. According to the LISD bus driver's account of the situation, students were being verbally abusive and swearing at her, when she had enough. "You have unruly kids on school buses; it happens. If it did occur exactly as we're hearing, I can't explain why people do some of the things that they did," says LISD spokesman Adam Continue reading >>>

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The donation amount continues to rise for a homeless Bostonian who found a backpack with more than $40,000 in cash and checks inside and returned it without taking a single penny. After hearing the story of Boston resident Glen James' extraordinary honesty, an Alabama native stepped up as well, giving the situation a two-fold reason to restore faith in humanity. Ethan Whittington took action and is now making headlines of his own. A friend had recently told him about a website for crowd-funding, and he decided to set up an account. If strangers stopped giving right now, Continue reading >>>

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The donation amount continues to rise for a homeless Bostonian who found a backpack with more than $40,000 in cash and checks inside and returned it without taking a single penny. After hearing the story of Boston resident Glen James' extraordinary honesty, an Alabama native stepped up as well, giving the situation a two-fold reason to restore faith in humanity. Ethan Whittington took action and is now making headlines of his own. A friend had recently told him about a website for crowd-funding, and he decided to set up an account. If strangers stopped giving right now, Continue reading >>>

(AP) – A homeless Boston man who police said turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveler's checks said even if he were desperate he wouldn't have kept a cent. Boston police chief Continue reading >>>

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Alabama's Attorney General Luther Strange said Tuesday that the Southern Poverty Law Center's case to block the Alabama Accountability Act was, "without merit." "They're not alleging there's anything unconstitutional about the act" said Strange after an event in Wetumpka. The state filed to have the case dismissed in Federal Court. The SPLC filed a lawsuit last month alleging that the school reform measure that allows students to leave failing schools to attend better public or non-public schools, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution. Attorneys Continue reading >>>

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The Montgomery Police Department says it has made an arrest in the city's 39th homicide of 2013, a stabbing death Monday night. Authorities are now arresting and charging 23-year-old Demetrius McBride of Montgomery with one count of murder in connection to the death of 30-year-old Zamian Land, also of Montgomery. McBride was taken to the Montgomery County Detention Facility where he's being held on a bond of $75,000. MPD and Fire Medics responded to the 4500 block of Rainbow Road at about 8:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a person stabbed. At the scene, they located Continue reading >>>

BUTLER CO., AL (WSFA) –

A car collided with the trailer of a log truck early Tuesday morning leaving the driver of the car, 39-year old Delores Johnson, dead.

The wreck occurred around 5:40 a.m. on Alabama Highway 263, 4 miles north of Greenville.

State Troopers continue to investigate the incident.

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HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - The man known as the "Ball Cap Bandit" entered a not guilty plea in court, Tuesday morning. Cedrick Lamond Hicks was indicted in August on nine counts of bank robbery and two counts of attempted bank robbery after he allegedly robbed several banks across north Alabama. The judge appointed Hicks a public defender at Tuesday's arraignment hearing, but he did not set bond. The maximum penalty for each robbery count is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Copyright 2013 WAFF. All rights reserved. Continue reading >>>

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - One of the celebrities in town for Empowerment Week is Bill Cosby, who visited Miles College bright and early Friday morning. Sporting a Miles College t-shirt, Cosby and Dr. George French, the school's president, got ready to watch the Golden Bears' football practice. Even early in the morning, Cosby was cracking jokes. We asked him if he was ready to take the field with the players. "No, those days are gone. Maybe a walk around the track," he said. Instead, Cosby shared some inspiring words. First, he huddled the players around him at the 50 yard line. Then he went over Continue reading >>>