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 …
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Authorities say an Alabama woman shot herself after shooting her two adult daughters to death on Sunday night, and so far it’s unclear what transpired between the family that ended with three people dead. Al.com reports that Brenda Williamon, 70, fatally shot her two daughters, Alicia Williamon, 44, Jeannie Williamon, 43, before turning the gun on herself. …
Police have arrested a Mobile, Alabama, woman after she allegedly left her 5-year-old son behind in a store when she was accused of shoplifting. WKRG has reported that Debrina Ayranita Scott, 24, was taken into police custody Wednesday and charged with theft of property and endangering the welfare of a child. After being accused of shoplifting, Scott allegedly …
An Alabama woman endured weeks of living in the woods in Bullock County until a passerby spotted her. Authorities say her story is truly a miracle. MS News Now reports that Lisa Theris, 25, of Louisville, disappeared almost a month ago after she was hanging out with two men who reportedly burglarized a hunting lodge. Theris had …
A husband and wife from Alabama could face the death penalty after they were charged in the killings of five family members, including an unborn child, multiple children and the man’s second wife, WHNT-TV reports. Christopher Henderson, 42, and Rhonda Carlson, 44, have been indicted for the murders that occurred two years ago in Huntsville. …
