The Mobile Police Department has arrested and charged a local doctor with manslaughter following a single-car crash that left his passenger dead. The suspect is Dr. Jonathan Nakhla, a 36-year-old neurosurgeon at Infirmary Health. The victim of the August 1 crash is 24-year-old Samantha Alison Thomas, a student at the University of South Alabama’s College […]
A 33-year-old man died on Saturday morning after his truck collided with an 18-wheeler. Southside Police Chief Blake Ragsdale said the victim is Matthew Ernie Norton. He was driving south on Alabama Highway 77 in a 2003 GMC Sonoma when he became involved in a collision with a Freightliner driven by a 46-year-old Pell City […]
Two siblings from south Alabama died at the scene of an accident early on Friday morning. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency identified them as 20-year-old Ozark resident Dominick Latrell Etheridge and 26-year-old Steven Etheridge Jr. of Dothan. The accident took place on U.S. 29 in the area of mile marker 26 in Covington County around […]
A Cullman County judge has sentenced Bradford Meeks to 12 years in prison. The penalty was imposed on Tuesday, almost four months after a jury returned a guilty verdict on three charges including criminally negligent homicide. Meeks was convicted in relation to a 2017 crash that took the life of 15-year-old Cullman County High School […]
An eleven-year-old boy died after a fatal gunshot that happened in a clear hunting accident, near Birmingham. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s office informed the child went turkey hunting with a group when the shooting happened on Friday morning. According to the sheriff’s spokesperson, the boy’s father was with him when the tragedy happened. Authorities investigate […]
Twenty-year-old Cavaughn Aiyanla Nixon from Montgomery was killed in a one-vehicle crash that happened at 5:50 a.m. on May 2. The accident happened when the 2006 Hyundai Sonata driven by Nixon, went off the roadway and hit a tree. Nixon was not wearing a seat belt and was killed at the scene. The accident occurred […]
A teacher at the Alabama School of Math and Science died last Thursday afternoon in a traffic accident. Sixty-nine-year-old Dr. James Gicheha Njenge’re was a passenger in a 2000 Toyota Tundra that hit the back of an attenuator truck. The accident happened around 12:30 p.m. on I-65 North at exit 31 in Baldwin County. Alabama […]
A Satsuma mother was killed in a car accident last Monday while heading home from planning her son’s funeral. Sixty-three-year-old Clarissa Murphy’s 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche was rear-ended by a 2010 Infiniti G35 in Mobile County, Alabama, just six days after her son died. Officials said she was not wearing her seat belt when the crash […]
Police arrested a Prattville man after he reportedly fled a traffic stop on Wednesday and caused a crash in Elmore County. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Trooper Michael Carswell said troopers stopped 26-year-old Angelo Jahmal Jones II on I-65 near Cobbs Ford Road around 1 p.m. The authorities did not say why they initially sought to […]
Members of the Cullman County law enforcement community and other well-wishers gathered on Saturday to pray for Sheriff’s Deputy Adam Clark and his K-9 companion Figo. The two were injured in a single-car accident last Tuesday on Alabama Highway 69 near Bremen. Clark suffered extensive injuries and remained in critical condition at Huntsville Hospital on […]
