MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Oct. 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama issued the following news release on Oct. 29, 2024: Today, Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson announced that a federal judge sentenced two Opelika, Alabama residents after a jury found them guilty of committing federal crimes in Tallapoosa County. On October 29, 2024, 45-year-old Jeffrey Monkentee Hill received a sentence of 250 months in prison. Previously, on September 19, 2024, a judg  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: AMVAC Chemical Corporation was sentenced today to three years of probation time and a $400,000 fine for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the federal hazardous waste law. According to court documents, AMVAC is a California corporation formed in 1945, which manufactures and distributes fungicide, defoliant, insecticide, herbic  more

MOBILE, Alabama, Oct. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama issued the following news release: On October 22, 2024, United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced Victoria Wyman to 37 months imprisonment for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl. Documents filed with the court established that beginning in or around July 2023 and continuing to or about December 8, 2023, Victoria Wyman conspired with others to distribute fe  more

MOBILE, Alabama, Oct. 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama issued the following news release: An Elberta man was sentenced on October 28, 2024, to 15 years in federal prison for his possession with intent to distribute of methamphetamine and fentanyl in Baldwin County, Alabama. Marcus Allen Heaton, 38, was identified during several encounters with Baldwin County sheriff's investigators from 2019 through 2021. Court documents show that in May of 2021, Heat  more

MAXWELL AFB, Alabama, Oct. 30 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: Civil Air Patrol's national youth aerospace-related STEM education program, Aerospace Connections in Education (ACE), begins each academic year with a national liftoff at the previous year's national ACE school of the year -- in this case, Grayhawk Elementary in Scottsdale, Arizona, where more than 600 students, educators, and guests turned out Oct. 15. Principal Eli Hubbell welcomed stude  more