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By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS MONTGOMERY — A former Montgomery police officer has been convicted of unlawful sexual contact with a handcuffed woman and obstructing the investigation. A federal jury found Markelle Jaquan Cox, 32, guilty […]

by SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS BIRMINGHAM — For the family of Otis Lee Phillips Jr., a ruling that his killing by police was justified has not brought closure. Instead, it has deepened a community call for […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—A 17-year-old suspect has been charged with murder and first-degree assault following a shooting that killed one teenager and wounded another over Labor Day weekend. Huntsville police responded around 10:15 […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—A theatre teacher at the Academy for Academics & Arts Middle School has been placed on leave following his arrest on a charge of electronic solicitation of a child. The […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS A missing 15-year-old Decatur girl has been found safe, while a former Tennessee sheriff’s deputy faces criminal charges connected to her disappearance. Decatur police reported that the teenager, who had been […]

By SPEAKIN’ OUT NEWS MOBILE, Ala.—A prominent Mobile-area neurosurgeon faces 10 child-pornography charges involving images of real children and material allegedly generated through artificial intelligence. Authorities identified the defendant as Dr. Shawn Broxton Clark, 59. […]

SPEAKIN’  OUT NEWS ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — Two men were killed and a third seriously wounded after an early-morning confrontation at a home under construction escalated into an exchange of gunfire, according to the Albertville Police Department.  […]

SPEAKIN’  OUT NEWS GULFPORT, Miss. — A Biloxi man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually battering his 11-year-old stepdaughter.  Decruis Tatum, 27, entered the guilty plea before Circuit Court […]