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. 22 -- The U.S. Army Contracting Command issued the following news: By Ben Gonzales, Army Contracting Command Public Affairs Army Contracting Command officials awarded their first contract using the new Army Contract Writing System Sept. 14 with plans to introduce the new platform across the enterprise in the new fiscal year. Kristen Carter, a contract specialist, and Timothy Greenwell, a contracting officer, both with the Mission and Installation Contracting C  more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Army Contracting Command issued the following news: By Ben Gonzales, Army Contracting Command Public Affairs An Army Contracting Command employee led a team that developed automated software to track Risk Management and Internal Control Program for organizations that has been adopted by the Army. Lori Cordell-Meikle, the ACC director of the Internal Review and Audit Compliance Office, worked with a program manager and team of developers to creat  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

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The White House sent to the Senate on Sept. 21, 2023, the nominations of the following five individuals for positions in the federal government: * * * * Spencer Bachus, III, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2027. (Reappointment) * David O. Barnett, Jr., of New Mexico, to be United States Marshal for the District of New Mexico for the term of four years, vice Sonya K. Chav  more