HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) - Huntsville Police say a man driving the wrong way on I-565 collided with three cars sending six people to the hospital.

Police say 65-year-old Lee Thomas Mayne was eastbound in the westbound lane at the Oakwood Avenue exit on I-565.  His truck crashed into a car head-on before hitting two other vehicles.  

One car flipped over onto it's roof.  The driver of the car Mayne hit head-on suffered life threatening injuries.

Charges against Mayne are pending at this time.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) - Huntsville Police are looking for the man responsible for robbing Jet's Pizza at gunpoint Friday night.

Police say a man armed with a handgun entered Jet's Pizza on South Memorial Parkway around 10:20 p.m.  The suspect then demanded cash from an employee.  

The employee gave the man the contents of the register and the suspect fled on foot.

Huntsville Police officers searched the area with a canine unit but could not locate the suspect.

If you have any information, call police at (256)722-7100.

Albertville, AL- Firefighters from around the nation are in Albertville this weekend for the FireFighters Combat Challenge. The firefighters race head-to-head as they navigate an obstacle course which simulates real life challenges.

“You climb a tower, you hoist a hose, you come down the stairs, and you hit a sled,” explained veteran competitor Jake Baker. “Then you have got to drag hose, run around a little bit, and then the last thing is you pull a dummy backwards 100 foot,” he continued.

The dummy is 175 pounds of dead weight. The Montgomery fireman makes it sound easy but months of training is required to be the best at this tough physical competition. Lifelong athlete and rookie fireman Brian Powell says he is anxious.

“I’m excited but those nerves…I’m still real nervous about it,” he said.

The average time of completion is around 2 minutes. The record is 1 minute 19 seconds, for now.

“Your top guys run 1:20s and the new guys will run up in the 2:00s a little bit but they get better as time goes on,” explained Baker.

It’s technically a friendly competition but when pride is on the line, these firemen are all business. The to prize… a shiny new fire hydrant made in Albertville, the fire hydrant capitol of the world, but Baker has his eye on some thing else. 

“Pride. That’s it, that’s all you need.”

The competition continues Sunday with team challenges.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) - Huntsville Police arrested Nicholette Scott Friday night after she allegedly robbed a man.

Police say the victim was at Scott's apartment at 6620 Old Madison Pike around 8:30 p.m.

An unknown male offender entered the apartment and pointed a gun at the victim's head.  At that time Scott took the victim's property and chased him out of the residence.

Police located Scott shortly after and took her into custody.

She is charged with First Degree Robbery.

FLORENCE, Ala. (WAAY and Times Daily) - Education is an expensive business to operate and with state funds being cut every year, the University of North Alabama is looking for ways to generate revenue.

The board of trustees will consider a bevy of fee increases for the 2012-13 academic year during its June board meeting. Some of the fee increases will help the university plug a $2.5 million to $3 million budget shortfall, UNA President William Cale said.

A portion of the shortfall is from a state allocation that is expected to be $1.3 million less than the current year’s allocation. That cut will make $11.4 million lost through state cuts and proration in the past four years.

The additional $1.2 million to $1.7 million comes from increases in fixed costs such as utilities and insurance.

Trustees also will discuss a tuition increase, and Cale has said previously it will be needed to make up for the shortfall.

The amount of that tuition increase has not been decided.

Among the fees the board will be asked to consider is a $20 increase to lab fees, taking the fee from $30 to $50.

The fee has been steady at $30 since 1993, UNA Provost John Thornell said.

The lab fee is assessed to any student enrolled in biology, chemistry or industrial hygiene course with a lab requirement.

The fee is then used to purchase supplies and equipment for lab courses.

But in recent years, the fee has fallen short of covering those purchases. When that happens, the departments must dip into their supplies fund allocated in the UNA budget.

Thornell, who spoke during the trustees’ board retreat Wednesday, said the 67 percent fee increase is staggering, but justified since the fee has not been changed in nearly 20 years.

“I wanted to present this here, so that when it comes before you in June, you won’t have sticker shock,” Thornell told board members. “This probably should have been done incrementally over the years, but it was not.”

In a handout presented to the board, a chart comparing supply prices from 1993 to the prices in 2011 showed an average 72 percent increase.

For example, a sheep brain costs $5.86 in 1993, and in 2011 it cost $10.50. In 1993 a culture dish cost $2.07, and in 2011 it cost $5.20.

No action will be taken until June.

Trustee Joel Anderson said the university might need to take the lab fee increase even higher to keep up with rising prices.

“Looking at this, it seems to me $50 is a little on the light side,” he said “I’d question that it might should be $60.”

The university does have a non-technology supply fund that at one time exceeded $1 million, but because of proration and other cuts the university has not been able to add funds to that account.

“The fund is still there, but it is not nearly the size that is used to be,” said UNA spokesman Josh Woods. “Money was not just taken out of it, but purchases were made and because of proration, money has not been added to that fund.”

The fund is used for major purchases across the campus, not just science departments.

Trustees in June also will discuss fee increases for residence halls, dining plans and dining dollars.

An increase from $75 to $105 in dining dollars will be brought before the board, Cale said.

Dining dollars is a program in which each enrolled student pre-pays for food items and other purchases made through Sodexo, the university’s dining vendor. Students pay the fee, currently $75 each semester, and have the rest of the semester to spend the money.

The fee could increase to $105 in the coming year and $135 the next year.

“Our students actually get this money back by spending their dining dollars,” board of trustees President Steve Pierce said.

Cale said the increases were in place in the contract the university has with Sodexo, but the timing of the increases would be accelerated if approved.

Vice President for Student Affairs David Shields said there is a plan to measure how much students are spending and to make sure the Sodexo vendors are fulfilling student needs.

Other fee increase requests are possible from different university departments and programs.

Trustee Marty Abroms is concerned about how fee and tuition increases will impact students and their families.

He asked the other board members to use caution when approving fee increases.

“We are going to fee these students and families to death,” Abroms said.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Gay marriage remains a heated issue around the country.  President Obama came out supporting homosexual wedlock, while North Carolina banned same sex marriages this week. 

 

An event Friday night at Huntsville's Lowe Mill focused on the role some say religion is playing in the debate.

 

It's been a challenging 15 years since Mary Lou Wallner lost her lesbian daughter to suicide.  She says, "I think she was internally homophobic because she knew her family, all of her family, extended family, disapproved."

 

Devoutly Christian, Wallner and her relatives were raised to believe homosexuality is a choice, and one that God frowns upon.  But after losing her daughter, she began to question the church's teachings on the topic: “We actually came to the belief that it wasn't true, and we changed our beliefs, and now we are full supporters of GLBT people."

 

Wallner's story is featured in a documentary that discusses religion and homosexuality.  "For the Bible Tells Me So" explores how very Christian American families cope with having a child who's gay.  She believes a key way to increase tolerance is for Christians to take another look at the Bible, when it comes to homosexuality.

 

Wallner explains, “Many parents whose children come out to them as gay or lesbian have understood that this isn't a choice, it's not a sin, it's not an abomination, it is just the way God made them."

 

Two GLBT non-profits, PFLAG and GLBT Youth and Advocate Services, brought Mary Lou Wallner and her documentary to Huntsville.  Bani Logreira is President of PFLAG, a support group for family and friends of homosexuals.  As a parent of a gay son, she hopes the documentary can increase dialogue in Huntsville and reduce the sinful light under which homosexuality is cast.

 

Logreira says, “It's very difficult to change the people here locally but I think the more they get to know us, the more they talk to us, the more we talk to them, the better communication we have."

 

Wallner says the tolerant message in the documentary has saved lives: “Lots of people have said, thank you so much, I'm so glad I saw this, I too had thought about suicide but now I'm not gonna do that."

 

Spreading this message has also saved her.  Wallner says, “I think it's kept me alive.  It's just something to do in her honor and hopefully she's up there looking at us and saying, way to go, mom."

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) - Huntsville Police are looking for the man who robbed the Discount Daddies store Friday night.

Police were called to the store at 3490 Highway 53 around 9:50 p.m. Friday.  

According to police a man entered the store armed with a handgun and demanded cash.  The cashier complied and the suspect took off in a silver sedan.

If you have any information, call police.

Somerville, AL-Nestled in the small town of Somerville is a piece of Alabama History. In the center of town stands the oldest courthouse in Alabama and to Somervillians that's something worth celebrating. A festival was held today in honor of the courthouses' 175th birthday.
 
"This is the highlight of the year each and every year. Each year it grows and progresses a little more," said Mayor Darren Tucker.
 
Vendors, live entertainment, and even civil war re-enactors were all out and about to celebrate this building with a long history.
 
World War 2 veteran Robert Maples says he spent some of his best days inside the building. The courthouse was turned into a school after the county seat was moved to Decatur and that’s where Maples began his education.
 
"I learned how to get a paddling and recess and play period," Maples joked.
 
The Somerville Courthouse has been a county courthouse, a school, and a church; but now city court is once again held within its walls. Mayor Tucker says the Judge and Prosecutor like the nostalgia of the building.
 
"They like it so much being able to say that they, you know, presided in the oldest courthouse in the state that we bought a desk and put over there and now we just continued having court over there."
 
All of the money raised goes towards making sure this piece of History remains intact.
 
"It’s just great to be able to call this our own little piece of history and we are very excited to be able to try to preserve it."

DECATUR, Ala. (WAAY and Decatur Daily) - Organizers expect a crowd of a couple hundred in Decatur today at a rally against Alabama’s illegal immigration law.

Protesters will gather starting at 5 p.m. at La Guerrerense Mexican Store in Decatur Shopping Center on Sixth Avenue and march about a mile to the office of state Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, at 2128 Sixth Ave. S.E.

The chief organizer of the rally is Rosa Calderon of the Athens-based immigrants-rights advocacy group All Races United. She said the rally will single out Hammon because he sponsored the illegal-immigration law with Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale.

“He (Hammon) said there’s a big illegal immigration problem in Decatur,” Calderon said. “Well, we’re going to show him that problem.”

Hammon did not return calls for comment Friday.

Calderon said All Races United is a volunteer organization with six members and was established in October. She said the organization’s goal is to educate the general population about immigration law.

Calderon said Hammon doesn’t see a difference between undocumented immigrants and legal immigrants. “He puts everyone in one category,” she said. “There are good and bad people in any population.”

Hammon has said previously that his intention “was to make it difficult for illegal immigrants to live and work in Alabama.”

Holding the rally on May 5 — Cinco de Mayo — has significance, Calderon said.

“We’re here to take back our holiday,” Calderon said. “In America, Cinco de Mayo has become, ‘Let’s go drink a margarita and eat Mexican food.’

“But most people don’t know its true meaning.”

La Guerrerense owner Martin Perez said through a translator that he supports the march and allowed the protesters to use his parking lot as a gathering place because the laws are personally affecting his business by driving Hispanic families away from the area. He said he believes the laws target people who are hard workers and are trying to provide for their families.

Calderon said the rally will be peaceful. She has a permit for the demonstration from City Hall.

“There will be officers there for traffic safety,” Lt. John Crouch of Decatur police said.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - A proposal from Alabama lawmakers could shorten the school calendar to less than 180 days while lengthening the school day.

If Gov. Robert Bentley signs the bill, school systems could shorten their year so long as students receive 1,080 hours of instructional time. The Mobile Press-Register reports that the school year would have to end by Memorial Day.

Mobile County is debating whether to shorten its school year to 173 or 170 days. It would add 18 to 25 minutes of instruction time daily under those plans.

Supporters of the bill say it would boost the tourism economy and reduce school spending on transportation and air conditioning. Opponents say it's a step backward for a state that increased its school year requirement in 2006 from 175 to 180 days.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) - A new kind of public database is in the works, dealing with Alabama's dangerous and growing meth problem.

 

For potential home-buyers, there's usually a checklist of potential deal-breakers, often including mold, termites, and neighborhood crime rates.

 

Now, lawmakers are saying meth labs should be added to that list.  Calling meth lab locations "uninhabitable,” a bill going through the state legislature would require the Department of Public Health to "place locations where methamphetamine labs have been discovered on the department's website for public disclosure."

 

That way, potential buyers can test a home to make sure it's completely meth-free.  Madison County Sgt. Mike Salomonsky, who often oversees meth lab busts, says they're extremely toxic and dangerous for everyone, even for those highly trained to clean them up.

 

He explains, "As they go through the bags trying to secure evidence for the prosecution of the case, there's a substantial risk to their health that they could become poked or stabbed by the needles and I don't have to tell you that numerous diseases can be generated from that."

 

So what happens to a home when it becomes ground zero for a meth lab bust?  Huntsville Area Association of Realtors CEO Oscar Gonzales explains, “The chemicals actually get into the fabric of the structure, like the insulation, the wood, and the sheet rock."

 

Gonzales says a bust could hurt the value of that home, but probably wouldn't impact a whole neighborhood: “If you had six meth labs on one street, yeah it probably could, but for the most part you're not going to see that happen."

 

Despite the potential impact on real estate values, Gonzales feels full disclosure of meth lab locations, just like awareness of asbestos or black mold, is more important.  He says, “It’s good information to have, especially when you're moving a young family into maybe their first home, and you don't want to subject them to any kind of danger with chemicals."

 

This bill is still pending committee action in the state house of representatives, and there are just three more days left in this year's legislative session.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Two bills aimed at further restricting abortions failed to come up for debate in the Alabama Legislature Thursday, hurting their chances of passing.

Only four legislative days remain in the 2012 legislative session.

The bills would establish new rules for abortion clinics and would allow doctors to not perform a medical procedure if it violates his conscience.

The two bills were on the House work agenda Thursday, but were delayed because of debate on other issues.

The sponsor of both bills, Republican Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin of Pelham said it's a "long shot" that the bills can pass in the session's waning days. Tuesday is the final day a bill has to pass the House if it has not yet passed the Senate.

Huntsville, AL- Ann Brown, owner of Ann’s Studio of Dance, pled not guilty Friday morning to charges of disorderly conduct. The charges stem from an altercation with Melissa Anderson, owner of Alabama Urgent Care. Anderson called a tow truck driver to take away several dance students' vehicles that were parked on her property despite signs warning that they would be towed.

Brown reportedly verbally assaulted Anderson and the tow trucks drivers, claims that are backed up by the driver's affidavits which say she cursed, charged at Anderson, and even ordered the dance students into the cars that were being towed.
Ann admits to raising her voice.

"Being a typical woman, as we discussed the matter my voice was raised because we think that if you don't respond in a proper way you don't hear us so we get louder and louder," explained Brown.

But says she did nothing that would justify the arrest. Police were at the altercation and did not arrest Brown at the time.

"The police were there on the scene and I feel like if I was totally out of order that they would have arrested me that night they didn't," she said.

Anderson filed a warrant Tuesday May 1st and Brown was arrested Thursday morning. She says the arrest was not the worst part of the whole experience, being accused of using foul language is.

"That has really hurt my feelings because I was raised by a mother that you didn't talk like that. I have never used the F-word in my whole life."
The issue began several years ago when Brown expanded her business and built a much larger building for her dance studio. The business has only 17 parking spaces to accommodate the students and their parents.

According to neighbors, the lack of parking has caused serious traffic woes for the surrounding neighborhood especially for the residents who live on Alabama Street.

“People couldn’t come down this way or get that way because there were cars parked on both sides of the street,” explained Kathy Biggs who lives on Alabama Street. “It’s still a problem to get out of your driveway when there are cars on both sides of the street,” she continued.

The residents of the Mayfair neighborhood have complained that the traffic caused by the lack of parking prevents them from getting to their homes on a regular basis. The group took their case before the Huntsville Board of Zoning Adjustment but Brown was granted an exemption due to the act that the city did approve the building plans. According to city code a business the size of the studio should have at least 23 parking spaces.

Biggs has lived in the neighborhood for more than 30 years and says there was no problem until the studio expanded.

“When they added their second story now they have more students and there more traffic there are more people parking on the road.”

The neighborhood group, represented by Attorney Thomas Jefferson is appealing the decision to circuit court.

Brown's court date regarding the arrest is set for June 19^th.

Hundreds of new jobs are headed to Limestone County. The job growth is expected to make a major impact on the county.

Carpenter Technology has already broken ground in Athens. The Pennsylvania based company that produces steele products will bring 250 jobs to Limestone County. 700 additional people will be employed to build the plant.

Athens Mayor Ronnie Marks says a total of 618 total jobs are coming to Limestone County as a result of several companies expanding or moving to the area.
"Well its always important as we continue to build our quality of life it helps support our education system and a way for people to feed their families" Marks says.

The Electricfill Corporation located in Elkmont is in the process of expanding and adding as many as 100 jobs. Human Resource officer Lynn Lane says providing
good jobs to the community is a good feeling. "Being Here in a small town such as Elkmont the fact that we are bake to employ so many people from the area is a benefit not only to us but for the local town" Lane said.

Electricfill produces car sensors for engines. some of their customers include: Ford and Volkswagen.

DECATUR, Ala. (WAAY & Decatur Daily) - It took a Morgan County jury less than a day to find Marqueze Smith guilty of capital murder in connection with the 2003 shooting death of Jeremy Black.

He now faces the possibility of the death penalty. Judge Sherrie Paler set the sentencing phase of the trial for next Monday.

On Thursday, Christopher Smiley testified that he was with Smith and his uncle, Patrick Napoleon Smith the night of the killing. Smiley is serving a 20 year prison sentence after pleading guilty to robbery in connection with the case two and a half years ago.

Smiley told jurors that Marqueze Smith and his uncle mocked Black after the shooting, saying he was "squealing like a pig" and "squirming like a worm" after being shot.

He said he picked up the elder Smith from a gas station in the early morning hours after August 12th, 2003. Smiley testified that Patrick Smith the led him to a secluded area, where his nephew was unloading items from Black's car. Smiley says he helped unload items from the car, and was then told to drive down the road, where he first saw Black's body. Smiley says Marqueze Smith admitted shooting Black that night.

Patrick Smith was found guilty of murder in 2008.

Today is the big day. Downtown Huntsville will be transformed into a BBQ lover's paradise. WhistleStop 2012 is about to kick off. Gates open today at 4 p.m. but many of the grill masters are already flexing their culinary muscles.

The entire show will be live from the Depot as we get a glimpse of everything this year's festival has to offer. Of course, we will talk about the professional and amateur cooking competitions, but there are so many new features to tell you about.

This year the Alabama Cornhole Competition will start this afternoon and the finals will be tomorrow. Space Camp will also be on hand for kiddos. The this evening at 6 p.m. is the first ever WAAY 31 Wing Thing.

You can still get tickets to the festival. Log on to www.rocketcitybbq.com for more on the festival. S

See you there!!!

MADISON COUNTY, AL - Frustrated drivers who regularly commute along heavily congested roads in western Madison County may see relief in their future. A joint effort between the cities of Madison and Huntsville, along with Madison County hopes to get some of the busiest roads in North Alabama a much needed facelift. 

Madison Mayor Paul Finley says he has been pushing for a revamp of the corridor for a long time. "One of the strongest assets we have right now is an 18 minute commute to and from work. We want to keep it low so people aren't in their cars and they can be home with their families," says Finley. 

Increased growth out West means more and more cars are traveling along Highway 72 and I-565 to and from their jobs at the Arsenal and along Research Park Drive. 

"We are all for trying to figure out the corridor and the best way to get people to their jobs and back home," says Finley. 

Friday, the Madison County Commission voted in favor of issuing a contract for several traffic studies. The studies will measure capacity and traffic access along U.S. 72 between Research Park and I-565 as well as 72 between Providence Main Street and County Line Road. 

Finley says local leaders have had discussions with ALDOT. "We're told guys, do a corridor study so we don't have another 280 like down in Birmingham," he says. 

Once the studies are complete, plans can begin to widen the heavily-traveled highways. "Once you engineer it then you can secure the money for it. We're talking a few years down the line but we can shorten the time frame if we do these corridor studies first," says Finley. 

A Marshall County gun range is shut down by order of the city of Albertville. It's the latest round in an ongoing dispute over noise. Albertville city leaders say they closed the Alabama Tactical Shooters gun range because of a 1947 city ordinance that bans the discharge of firearms within city limits.

Dennis Jones was happy to learn the gun range was shut down for now. He lives down the street. For weeks now Jones and many other residents have been complaining that the noise from the gun range is too loud. "If it's small caliber pistols it's a pop pop. And larger rifles like 50 calibers you get a bone shattering ear piercing loud boom" Jones said. "And they also shoot exploding targets".

Since the gun range sits in the county between Albertville and Guntersville, both municipalities have decided to ask the Alabama Attorney General to step in to see who has the authority to decide the gun ranges fate. Albertville City Councilor Chuck Ellis says that's the right move. "I think the big issue right now at the range is the nuisance problem. I'm a true believer of a mans tranquillity in his home. I believe in the city's sound ordinance" Ellis said.

Albertville leaders expect gun range director Barry Harbin to request permission to re open the range at Monday nights city council meeting.

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (WAAY) - Fayetteville Police have arrested and charged a man with murder after his wife was shot to death Monday morning.

Police were called to the Taylor Way Apartments around 10:20 a.m. after neighbors heard shots fired. They arrived to find 22 year old Courtney Price McKinney shot to death. Her husband, 23 year old Charles "Chaz" McKinney was arrested at the scene and charged with Criminal Homicide. He's being held on $950,000 bond.

The loss of actor George Lindsey is being felt deeply at the University of North Alabama.  The man loved for his role as "Goober" passed away over the weekend.

Although 83 year old George Lindsey died in Nashville on Sunday, he will forever live on as Goober Pyle from the Andy Griffith Show.  He spent many years making people laugh and sharing his talents with the world through various film and television appearances.  However, before his fame took off, he was an unassuming student at the University of North Alabama.

"Mr. Lindsey was a 1952 graduate of UNA and for many years has been a very active alumni of the university," said UNA spokesman Josh Woods.  "He's been very supportive and a great friend to this entire university community, and it's a great loss for the entire university family."

UNA's Collier Library is the home of dozens of Lindsey's film and television scripts as well as other memorabilia.  He co-founded the George Lindsey Film Festival 14 years ago, and now has a new theater named after him on campus.

"It was very fitting to honor Mr. Lindsey in this way through the theater, especially in the final months of his life," said Woods.

Lindsey attended the 2012 Lindsey Film Festival in March where the theater was dedicated in his honor.

Magan Fromhold, a junior at UNA, said that Lindsey will always be an inspiration to students.

She said, "I think it's really inspiring to see that someone took what they learned from UNA and actually went out and followed their dreams and was successful and had money to give back to the school where obviously he believes in the education here at UNA."

Lindsey's visitation will be on Friday, May 11 from 2 until 4 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville.  The funeral will follow immediately.

The WAAY 31 Concert Series continues with Aaron Kelly. Aaron was one of the breakout stars from season 9 of American Idol. Aaron is working on an album, writing his own songs.

He's one of several performers who'll be hitting the stage May 12th at the Lincoln County Music Festival.


If you'd like to be featured on WAAY 31's Concert Series, email Meredith Wood.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press has learned the CIA thwarted a plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

U.S. officials say the plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also built to be used in a passenger's underwear but contained a more refined detonation system.

The would-be suicide bomber was told to buy a ticket on the airliner of his choosing and decide the timing of the attack. It's not immediately clear what happened to the would-be bomber.

The U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive case.

The WAAY 31 crew had a great time at WhistleStop this weekend. There was tons of BBQ and lots of people out enjoying the heat! It was definitely hot!

This week will be highlighting the Lincoln County Music Festival that will be this Saturday. Today's performer will be Aaron Kelly. You may remember Aaron from American Idol Season 9. He finished in the top 5 and has gone on tour the country with his band. Aaron is working on an album, writing his own songs. Aaron will be just one of several performers at the festival including Charlie Daniels Band and Cowboy Troy. For more on the event log on to www.lincolncountymusicfest.com.

Mother's Day is this Sunday and if you can't decide what to get mom, what about a home cooked meal that she doesn't have to step foot in the kitchen to prepare. Jennifer Sherman from Dinner by Design has a way for Dad and the kids to whip up a lunch for 6 to present to mom. You will help prepare it and take home an entrée, 2 sides and a dessert. Space is limited. Check out www.facebook.com/DinnerByDesignHSV.


See you at 4!

 

DECATUR, Ala. (WAAY) - A Morgan County jury took less than an hour to recommend the death penalty for 32 year old Marqueze Smith.

Smith was found guilty of Capital Murder last week in the 2003 shooting death of Jeremy Black. In dramatic testimony Thursday, one of Smith's former co-defendants told a chilling story about Smith laughing about shooting Black after stealing items out of the victim's car.

The jury's opinion is not binding. The ultimate decision is now on Judge Sherrie Paler, who will sentence Smith in August.