The Vestavia Hills Board of Education will soon decide the fate of a local elementary school principal whose recent absence has been at the center of a growing community controversy.
Just after 2 p.m., officers with the Homewood Police Department's Special Operations Unit were conducting surveillance on a vehicle believed to be involved in narcotics activity, according to HPD.
While Alabama only has to bear the brunt of one brood, the cicadas we see may be infected with a strange, somewhat frightening sexually transmitted disease, meaning this insect invasion may look less like "Starship Troopers" and more like "The Last of Us."