A suspicious package found Monday outside Wells Fargo Bank in Gadsden brought out the bomb squad to examine the item, which proved to be harmless according to Gadsden Police Capt. Wayne Keener.
The package was found outside the bank and first police then the bomb squad were called, with Gadsden firefighters summoned to assist. The immediate area around the package was blocked off from traffic. We did our bomb squad stuff, Keener said, following procedures to safely examine the package.
They found the package contained some items, but nothing explosive or posing a threat.
Keener said there s no way to know if someone left it there to create suspicion. It was found in an area with shrubbery, he said. It was not at any of the doors.
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The Venue at Coosa Landing in Gadsden is hosting a Touch-A-Truck event featuring a variety of different kinds of vehicles from noon to 4 p.m. May 16, according to a press release.
Admission is $5 for ages 2-17 and free for children ages 2 and younger and adults ages 18 or older.
Event organizer Deborah Hawkins in the release said among the vehicles scheduled to be at the event are a fire truck, a police car, a trolley, an ambulance, an excavator, a wrecker, a taxi, a mail truck and a helicopter.
“Touch-A-Truck will be about as large as the last time we had it, but there will be more activities at this year’s event,” Hawkins said in the press release.
Gadsden PD: East Alabama dentist arrested on sex abuse, rape & sodomy charges Joseph Cox (Source: Etowah County Sheriff s Office) By WBRC Staff | April 27, 2021 at 3:32 PM EDT - Updated April 27 at 4:12 PM
GADSDEN, Ala. (WBRC) - Gadsden Police confirmed an East Alabama dentist was arrested on sexual abuse, rape, and sodomy charges Tuesday.
Joseph Cox, D.M.D, was arrested Tuesday, April 27, 2021 on sexual abuse, rape, and sodomy charges.
Investigators said search warrants were executed at his office and home.
If anyone has any information related to the alleged charges, contact Detective Anthony Devine at 256-549-4653.
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Transgender Alabama woman to lawmakers considering treatment ban: ‘Talk to one of these kids’
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Posted Mar 16, 2021
Jessica Fuller of Hokes Bluff, 21, talks about her opposition to a bill to ban puberty-blockers and hormones as transgender treatments for minors in Alabama.
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A month after her 16th birthday, Jessica Fuller took a long walk as she wrestled with whether to tell her father she was transgender.
She wrote a note, rewrote it over and over, and left it in his desk at home. She thought about throwing it away.
“I was hoping he didn’t see it, but he did,” Fuller said. “And he hugged me and told me he loved me. But of course that was the initial reaction because he loves me. I’m his child. He was shocked and confused, yes.”
State Sen. Andrew Jones, R-Centre, on Monday announced two constitutional amendments he will offer in the Legislature, one mirroring his local bill designed to keep rendering plants out of Etowah County.
The other? It would phase out occupational tax in the five Etowah County municipalities that impose it, over a 20-year period.
There is a 2% tax on those who work in the municipalities of Attalla, Gadsden, Southside, Rainbow City and Glencoe. Jones, R-Centre, said that amounts to charging people to work in those cities. He said fewer than 30 Alabama cities impose occupational tax, and most set the rate at 1% or less of income.