A federal judge in Montgomery has sentenced the final defendant in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that funneled narcotics and other contraband into a State of Alabama correctional facility in Elmore. In total, five defendants have now been sen…
Students in Elmore County Schools will receive free breakfast and lunch again this school year under the Community Eligibility Provision under the USDA.
Last Wednesday, agents with the Alabama Department of Corrections Law Enforcement Services Division and K-9 Division assisted the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in locating and apprehending a fugitive wanted by …
Elmore County Schools saw a number of retirements after the last school year. It meant a lot of work for the school system to find and hire new teachers to fill many openings across the system, especially in elementary schools.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has placed Elmore County under an extreme heat warning for Monday. Elmore County EMA has identified the following locations will be open as “Cooling Stations” on Monday during the times listed below. Citizens are asked to note that cooling stations …
Hard working, loyal, compassionate, patient. They are words used by Elmore County Schools transportation director Ray Mullino used to describe bus driver Alexandra Fermin.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the State of Alabama have agreed to terminate the remaining terms of the consent decree that had governed operations at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women since 2015.
Enterprise resident Rhett Marques is hoping his experience in the Alabama legislature and connections with U.S. Sen. Katie Britt and U.S. Senate hopeful Barry Moore will get him the Republican nod for U.S. Congress District 2 in Alabama.
New students walked the halls of Edgewood Academy for the first time Monday. Many with backpacks of their favorite cartoon character. But the kindergartners weren’t the only ones. So did the senior boys.
The exercise yard at the Elmore County Jail was a little different last Tuesday. A large stock tank was brought and filled with water. It transformed the space into sacred ground as nearly three dozen female inmates were baptized.
When the current Elmore County Jail opened with a designed capacity of 242 beds, it replaced the old jail at the Historic Elmore County Courthouse that was 30% over capacity.
The Sleep Disorders Center, a division of Ivy Creek Healthcare, has been a mainstay in Wetumpka for eight years. But recently, it received a facelift and the doors were opened to guests last Thursday for a grand reopening and ribbon cutting.
Just a few years ago, municipalities in Elmore County were paying different rates to house prisoners serving time from municipal court convictions. Last year the Elmore County Commission and the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office set it at $25 pe…
