โItโs stolen opportunities,โ relatives say at candlelight vigil for 3 killed in Bolingbrook home invasion โ Chicago Tribune
A group of about 100 people gathered Wednesday evening at the DuPage Township Center, in remembrance of the lives lost in the home invasion killings of three people, including two girls, inside a Bolingbrook home Sunday.
chicagotribune.comTeen pleads not guilty in killing of three, including two girls, inside a Bolingbrook home Sunday
Byrion Montgomery, 17, has been charged with nine counts of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, home invasion, aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
chicagotribune.com'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's' star Tim Norman sentenced to life in prison for murder-for-hire killing of nephew
Tim Norman, who starred in the long-running reality show "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's," was sentenced to life in prison for arranging the 2016 murder of his nephew Andre Montgomery Jr.
foxnews.comFormer โSweetie Pieโsโ star Tim Norman gets life in prison for arranging deadly shooting of his nephew to collect life insurance payment
A former star of a St. Louis-based reality show has been sentenced to life in prison for arranging the killing of his nephew to collect a life insurance policy.
Former Sweetie Pie's star sentenced for nephew's killing
The former star of St. Louis-based television reality show โWelcome to Sweetie Pie'sโ was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for arranging the shooting death of his nephew to collect a life insurance payment. James โTimโ Norman did not speak on his own behalf at the sentencing hearing for the March 2016 killing of his 21-year-old nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr. Both men had starred in the long-running OWN reality show about the familyโs soul food business in the St. Louis area.
news.yahoo.comBlack Hawk pilots killed in Alabama crash were experienced
Two Tennessee National Guard pilots killed when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed along an Alabama highway were both experienced aviators with more than a dozen years of military service apiece, military officials said Thursday. The National Guard identified the pilots as Chief Warrant Officer 3 Daniel Wadham of Joelton, Tennessee, and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Danny Randolph of Murfreesboro.
news.yahoo.comAlabama extends time for executions, ends automatic review
Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system longer to carry out executions โ a move that comes after a string of troubled lethal injections in the state โ and also eliminated an automatic review for trial errors.
Allen announces withdrawal from voter registration group
Alabama's new secretary of state announced the state's withdrawal Tuesday from a 32-state voter registration partnership, a data-sharing effort that was designed to maintain accurate voter rolls but has sometimes become the target of conservative ire and conspiracy theories. A day after being sworn in, Allen sent a letter to the Electronic Registration Information Center, a non-profit linking 32 states and the District of Columbia, saying the state will no longer participate in the sharing of voter registration data. โI made a promise to the people of Alabama that ending our stateโs relationship with the ERIC organization would be my first official act as Secretary of State,โ Allen said in a statement.
news.yahoo.comMartin Luther King Jr. Day: These Houston events honor slain civil rights leaderโs legacy
Parades and celebrations will be held over the weekend and on Monday to honor the 93rd birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 while helping sanitation workers strike for better pay and workplace safety in Memphis, Tennessee.
Alabama 'execution survivor' reaches settlement with state
Alabama won't seek another lethal injection date for an inmate whose September execution had been halted because of problems establishing an intravenous line, according to the terms of a settlement agreement approved on Monday. The state agreed to never use lethal injection again as an execution method to put Alan Eugene Miller to death. Any future effort to execute him will be done by nitrogen hypoxia, an execution method authorized in Alabama but that has never been used to carry out a death sentence in the US.
news.yahoo.comAustralian woman speaks out after a man โ who she alleges broke into her home, raped her, and sent an apology text for doing 'the most heinous thing possible' โ was found not guilty
On September 7th, Lyndon Montgomery was found not guilty of breaking into Holly Harris' home and raping her.
news.yahoo.comAlabama sets execution date in '88 contract killing
Alabama has set a November execution date for a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of a pastorโs wife. The scheduled execution follows criticism over the stateโs last two lethal injection attempts, including one that was called off after the execution team had trouble finding a vein. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 57, is set to die at Holman Correctional Facility on Nov. 17, according to a Friday order from the Alabama Supreme Court.
news.yahoo.comAlabama prisons reduce meals, nix visits amid inmate strike
Thousands of inmates in Alabama's overcrowded prison system are receiving only two meals a day during a prisoner work stoppage that was in its fourth day Thursday, and the agency said weekend visitation also was being canceled. While inmates and activists have accused the Department of Corrections of using pressure tactics in an attempt to end the demonstration, officials said the reduced rations and the lack of visits were the result of a prisoner labor shortage. Inmates provide much of the labor force inside prisons, the department said, so the lockups eliminated one of the three meals that normally are served to compensate for the lack of workers.
news.yahoo.comInvestigation continues into Montgomery homicide
The Montgomery Police Department and the Kendall County Major Crimes Task Force said they are continuing to investigate what they are now calling the homicide of a Montgomery man on Monday on the 1100 block of Reading Drive in Montgomery.
chicagotribune.comState: Alabama nearly ready with untried execution method
Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence later this month, a state attorney told a federal judge Monday. James Houts, a deputy state attorney general, told U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. that it is โvery likelyโ the method will be available for the execution of Alan Eugene Miller, currently set for Sept. 22 by lethal injection. Nitrogen hypoxia, which is supposed to cause death by replacing oxygen with nitrogen, has been authorized by Alabama and two other states for executions but never used.
news.yahoo.comTrial begins in killing of Miss Sweetie Pie's grandson
A murder-for-hire trial involving former stars of the reality TV show โWelcome to Sweetie Pie'sโ got underway in St. Louis, where prosecutors allege that James โTimโ Norman arranged his nephew's killing because he needed money from a life insurance policy that he took out on the victim.
news.yahoo.comMan Charged With Rape in โFree Spiritโ Sorority Girlโs Mysterious Death
GoFundMeTwo weeks after 20-year-old Indiana University student Avery McMillan was found unresponsive inside a Bloomington house, cops on Wednesday arrested the homeowner in connection to her death.Eric Montgomery, 33, now faces a charge of rape when the victim is mentally disabled or deficient, as well as a charge of giving alcohol to someone underage, arrest records say. It is the only arrest to stem from McMillanโs mysterious death on Aug. 17.Additional details about what happened between McMi
news.yahoo.comPujols homers as Montgomery, Cardinals blank Cubs 1-0
Albert Pujols hit career homer No. 693, Jordan Montgomery pitched a one-hitter and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on Monday for their season-high eighth straight victory. Pujols led off the seventh with a drive to left-center for his seventh homer in his last 10 games and No. 14 overall in his final big league season. Drew Smyly became the 449th pitcher to surrender a homer to the 42-year-old Pujols, who matched Barry Bonds for the major league record.
news.yahoo.comGOP group apologizes for mistakenly posting KKK image
A Republican group in Alabama is apologizing after accidentally using a picture of the GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery. The Lawrence County Republican Party intended to post an image of the GOP elephant on its Facebook page, but ended up using one in which the white spaces between the animal's legs were drawn to resemble hooded Klansmen. A party official said the image was taken from the results of a Google search and that the image was immediately replaced once the mistake was detected.
news.yahoo.comAlabama court sets Sept 22 execution for 1990 triple killing
A mentally disturbed truck driver convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting rampage more than two decades ago is set to be put to death on Sept. 22, the Alabama Supreme Court said Monday. The clerk's office announced the scheduled execution date of Alan Eugene Miller, 57, who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the slayings, which occurred in Shelby County in 1999. Miller could still mount a legal challenge to block his planned execution by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore.
news.yahoo.comFloating abortion clinic proposed in Gulf to bypass bans
A California doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico as a way to maintain access for people in southern states where abortion bans have been enacted. The idea is to provide a clinic aboard a ship in federal waters, and out of reach of state laws, that would offer first trimester surgical abortions, contraception and other care, said Dr. Meg Autry, an obstetrician and gynecologist and a professor at the University of California San Francisco. The proposal comes as abortion access in the southern United States has been swiftly curtailed after the U.S. Supreme Court turned the issue of abortion back to the states.
news.yahoo.comBid considered to wipe Alabama arrest records of King, Parks
The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.
โI got โem!โ: Bodycam video captures rescue of children lost in Sam Houston National Forest
The three children who went missing Thursday night in Sam Houston National Forest in Montgomery, which led to a multi-agency search effort, were found safe Friday morning, according to the Montgomery County Sheriffโs Office.
Mother warning others after spilling cooking oil, suffering from 3rd-degree burns
As a mother and an avid cook, Clarissa Montgomery has made tortilla chips countless times, but while in the kitchen just over a week ago, she suffered a very serious accident. Now, the mother is healing at Memorial Hermannโs burn unit and sending a strong message to others from her hospital bed.