MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, Sandra J. Stewart, issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2023: Today, a federal jury in Montgomery, Alabama, convicted two men for their roles in a murder-for-hire conspiracy that resulted in the November 27, 2017, death of an Enterprise woman. According to court documents and evidence presented during the six-day trial, in 2017, Jason Starr, 50, from Coffee Springs, Alabama, went through a divorce  more

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Prim F. Escalona, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: A federal jury today convicted a Tuscaloosa man on a drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson. The jury returned its guilty verdict against Jimmy Lee Spencer, 37, after 2 days of testimony before Chief U.S. District Court Judge L.   more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, Sept. 21 -- The Army Space and Missile Defense Command issued the following news: By Jason Cutshaw, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command U.S. Army astronaut Lt. Col. (Dr.) Frank C. Rubio will celebrate a full year in space on Sept. 21, setting a milestone no other U.S. astronaut can claim. Scheduled to return to Earth on Sept. 27, Rubio will have logged 371 days in orbit, 16 days more than astronaut Mark Vande Hei, a retired Army colonel, set in 2022, breakin  more