Ala. Mom Who Was Tortured, Sexually Assaulted and Fatally Shot Remembered for 'Heart of Gold'

Mahogany Jackson.Photo:Birmingham Police Department Birmingham Police Department Mahogany Jacksonhad decided to dedicate herself to being the best mother she could be, a role that had been so difficult after she had her daughter as a teenager. Always styling 3-year-old daughter’s hair, she had decided to go to cosmetology school and become a stylist, her mother Gail Maddox Trotter tells PEOPLE. Police say she knew her killers. “She was full of life, she loved people,” Trotter says.

Ala. Sheriff Finds 176 Fentanyl Pills — Inside Easter Eggs

Jamarious Dequan Qualls (R) was arrested following the seizure of 176 fentanyl pills inside two Easter eggs (L), according to the Colbert County Sheriff’s Department.Photo:Colbert County Sheriff’s Department Colbert County Sheriff’s Department A golden Easter egg led to an unlikely drug bust after Alabama law enforcement agents made a traffic stop Monday morning, April 1. Investigators found 176 fentanyl pills stuffed inside two plastic eggs, according to a Colbert County Sheriff’s Officepress release, which included a photograph of the bagged drugs alongside the opened eggs.

Ala. Woman Is Fatally Shot in Home, 18 Months After Brother Was Killed Just Outside Same House

Nartavius Cortez Fluker-Smith (L) and Tamekia Tana Fluker (R), with the small town Ala. home where they were both murdered less than two years apart (C).Photo:Nartavius Fluker-Smith/Facebook, WVTM 13 News/YouTube, Tamekia Fluker/Facebook Nartavius Fluker-Smith/Facebook, WVTM 13 News/YouTube, Tamekia Fluker/Facebook A 40-year-old Ala. woman was fatally shot in broad daylight inside her home — just a year and a half after her brother was shot dead in his car, parked outside the same house.

Ala. Woman Relives Moment She Unexpectedly Gave Birth in a Krispy Kreme Parking Lot: 'Felt Like I Was in a Movie'

In an interview withUSA TODAY, published Tuesday, Jan. 28, Sha’nya Bennett relived the moment she gave birth to her son Dallas in aKrispy Kreme parking lotin Dothan, Alabama, on Jan. 22 during a winter storm. Bennett, 23, made headlines earlier this month when she and her partner were forced to pull into the parking lot of the one of the doughnut chains' stores while they were on their way to the hospital due to her contractions,

Alabama A&M Football Player Medrick Burnett Jr. Did Not Die, Says University in Apology for False Announcement

Medrick Burnett Jr.Photo:Alabama A&M Alabama A&M Alabama A&M University retracted an announcement that football player Medrick Burnett Jr. died on Wednesday, Nov. 27. Hours after publishing the message, the university deleted it from its athletics department’s website. “Upon hearing from a representative from UAB hospital this afternoon, we learned that he remains alive. We express our immediate regret for disseminating false information however, we hold complete joy in knowing that Medrick remains in stable condition,” the department concludes.