Decatur

An Alabama judge is ruling that a police officer was not acting in self-defense when he shot an armed Black man who was standing in his own front yard. Body camera footage shows the officer shooting 18 bullets less than two seconds after identifying himself as law enforcement.

Nine local agencies serving Huntsville’s most vulnerable residents are getting a financial boost in federal funding. The organizations will receive about $300,000 to help unsheltered populations in the Rocket City.

An Alabama judge heard conflicting testimony on Tuesday about newly released body camera video that captured the moments before a police officer fatally shot an armed Black man outside of his home. The newly released video appears to confirm officer’s testimony that the man pointed a gun at the policeman.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is marking 50 years in service of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant located in Athens. On August 1, 1974, Browns Ferry Unit 1 began commercial operation. It's TVA’s largest generating asset and the third-largest nuclear power producer in the United States.

One of the State’s highest-flying festivals is coming to Decatur on Memorial Day weekend.

Mission managers are still troubleshooting a helium leak on NASA’s new gumdrop shaped space capsule called Starliner. The vehicle, on top of an Alabama built Atlas-V rocket, will now launch no earlier than May 25th.

NASA, Boeing, and a rocket builder in Alabama are facing another delay in the liftoff of a new kind of spacecraft. Engineers found a helium leak on part of the Starliner capsule.

Red Lobster says it is closing nearly 50 of its restaurants in the U.S. The chain says that includes two in Alabama.

Two NASA astronauts may have to wait ten days before blasting off aboard a rocket built in Decatur. NASA and Boeing say they’re are rolling the Atlas five carrying the new Starliner space capsule off the launch pad for repairs. A faulty valve prompted launch managers to cancel Monday night’s liftoff. The part will need to be replaced.

Two veterans from NASA’s space shuttle program are within hours from a historic blastoff involving a rocket built in Alabama. The Atlas five is set to carry a new space capsule called Starliner.