The Huntsville City Council voted to limit access to city government buildings, including City Hall, to prevent city officials and residents from being harassed by “First Amendment Auditors” and others seeking to post confrontations on social media.
Several agencies responded to an early morning house fire on Ryland Pike Sunday.
The Huntsville Police Department, HEMSI and Huntsville Fire & Rescue all responded to the scene. The call came in around 4: 30 a.m.
Del Taco opened their Huntsville location late February ... The Huntsville Del Taco, whose neighbors include a Bass Pro Shop, is strategically located near Research Park and Bridge Street Towne Center. ...A crunchy corn shell stuffed with seasoned beef, cheddar, lettuce, tomatoes. Evokes the average American family’s taco night at home. At $2.09 in Huntsville, the Del Taco
Six men are now in custody and being charged with first-degree human trafficking after a sting operation in Hartselle last week where they allegedly targeted and solicited decoys posing as juveniles ...
Each of these men is charged with two counts of first-degree human trafficking, two counts of electronic solicitation of a child and two counts of traveling to meet a minor for an unlawful sex act.
Madison Fire and Rescue and Madison Police responded to an apartment fire at The Lofts at Town Madison (110 Iberville St.) just after 3 a.m. on March 6.
Madison Fire and Rescue, Madison Police and the State Fire Marshal’s Office determined that the fire had been intentionally set following an investigation.
Taron Reaves, 31, was identified...
“This is not about free speech,” Rubio told reporters. “This is about people that don’t have a right to be in the United States to begin with.”
Rubio described Khalil, a green card holder who played a central role in anti-Israeli demonstrations at Columbia University, as a “supporter of Hamas” and said he was “complicit in what are clearly crimes” during the protests.
Huntsville’s elementary schools are the last K-12 schools in the city without advanced security systems in place, but they won’t be much longer.
While students are on their spring break, Huntsville City Schools (HCS) will have one weapons detector installed in each of the 24 elementary schools throughout the city.
“We want parents to have peace in mind when they send their kid to school knowing that their child is going to be safe ...
If you’re concerned about surveillance, knowing how to detect a StingRay device is essential. StingRays trick your phone into connecting to them by mimicking real cell towers and then intercept your phone’s data. Using detection apps and a high-quality VPN can help secure your activity, but they won’t stop your phone from connecting to the device. ... but there are ways to protect yourself. Detection apps help identify fake cell towers, encrypted messaging apps keep communications secure and disabling 2G prevents forced network downgrades. In this guide, we’ll explain how StingRays work, which apps can detect them and the steps to take to secure your data. ...
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The business sells lawn and garden supplies, dog and cat food and supplies, animal health supplies, livestock feed and supplies, fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, as well as fruits, vegetables and gourd seeds.
There is an online auction for the liquidation of supplies at the Huntsville store. The auction will end March 11, with pickup at the Huntsville store on March 12-13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
For online auction information you can go here.
Officials say the fraudulent charges are coming through walmart.com.
Walmart.com and Redstone Federal Credit Union are aware some members may have fraudulent Walmart.com charges pending on their accounts. Walmart.com is taking action to reverse any charges they believe are fraudulent.
Redstone asks members to please
An HPD spokesperson said officers responded to a shooting-in-progress call at an apartment complex in the area of Martin Road and Zierdt Road. The department said, as of 7:46 p.m., there is an active death investigation as the result of the shooting at 240 Martin Road.
HPD said one person has been detained.
"...Lockheed Martin workers in Huntsville and elsewhere in Alabama will help boost ballistic missile defense for a key U.S. partner in the Middle East under a Pentagon contract announced this week. ...The company was awarded a $211,739,333 modification to a previous contract to provide maintenance and other services for two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries for the United Arab Emirates. The deal occurred under a foreign military sales case, with the UAE covering the cost. ..."
Reference: www.al.com Per Capita Personal Income
In 2023, Madison had a per capita personal income (PCPI) of $66,005. This PCPI ranked 3rd in the state and was 121.8 percent of the state average, $54,209, and 94.5 percent of the national average, $69,810. The 2023 PCPI reflected an increase of 5.6 percent from 2022. The 2022–2023 state change was 4.9 percent and the national change was 5.4 percent. In 2013, the PCPI of Madison was $43,560 and ranked 3rd in the state. The 2013–2023 compound annual growth rate of PCPI was 4.2 percent. The compound annual growth rate for the state was 4.3 percent and for the nation was 4.6 percent.
Note: Per capita personal income is total personal income divided by total midyear population.
What is The CHOOSE Act?
The Creating Hope and Opportunity for Our Students' Education Act of 2024 (The CHOOSE Act) is administered by the Alabama Department of Revenue (ALDOR).
CHOOSE Act Alabama makes refundable income tax credits called education savings accounts (ESAs) available to support the success of eligible K-12 students in Alabama.
An ESA can be used to pay for tuition, fees, and other qualified education expenses at approved Education Service Providers (ESPs) in Alabama.
$7,000 per participating student who is enrolled in a participating school.
$2,000 per participating student who is participating in a home education program (maximum of $4,000 per family.)
The application period is now open through April 7, 2025.
Over a thousand hateful comments and DM’s have been popping up on Andrea Alvarez’s Facebook page. It started with a post from the Huntsville City School board member, denouncing parents for taking advantage of the state’s CHOOSE Act. ... The state bill passed in 2024, giving up to $7,000 in state funding for families to put toward private or homeschooling. ...
New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees at FBI headquarters to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.
The plans were communicated Friday, the same day Patel was sworn in at the White House.
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An expanded federal antitrust lawsuit alleges renters in parts of two of Alabama’s largest cities may have been paying too much due to illegal scheming between some of the nation’s biggest landlords. The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week it was expanding an antitrust complaint against RealPage Inc.
The company said despite the layoffs, they have been able to partially mitigate previously announced reductions to its Space Launch System (SLS) program.
“As Boeing and NASA continue to finalize contract revisions for Boeing’s work on the Space Launch System program, we have successfully mitigated a majority of the previously announced workforce reductions,” Boeing said.
...already seen it affect one client in our office who has been under contract for several months already to buy a home that’s supposed to close at the end of this month,” Stringer said. “They’ve already had to get an extension to delay that until they know for sure if they’re going to be able to work on-site in Huntsville or if they’re going to have to work onsite in a different state.” ...
