Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 4:30 PM CST
|By John Shryock
Wednesday marked another year of wedded bliss for a south Alabama couple who are quietly marking their 75th wedding anniversary.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 6:02 PM CST
|By John Shryock
The pardoning is a time-honored tradition that allows two birds bursting with savory flavor to savor the flavor of bursting to freedom.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 5:51 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Longtime WSFA 12 News News Director Scott Duff has announced he will be leaving Montgomery after 16 years.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 4:08 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Since Friday is National Rescue Dog Day, we thought we would check in and see how Rutabaga is doing.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2022 at 5:57 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
It’s unclear exactly who started the “love lock” tradition in downtown Prattville, but the city is making a gentle request: Come and claim them before it’s too late.
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022 at 5:02 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Life can come at you fast, or in the case of a turtle looking to cross a busy Alabama highway, very slow. The story could only get more folksy if a police officer and a preacher were to happen onto the scene. That’s exactly what happened.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 4:26 PM CST
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Hungry patrons at a south Alabama restaurant got a side order of cable network star power Thursday.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2021 at 12:17 PM CST
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Cecil and Nell Prescott are celebrating 75 years of marriage, but if not for a passing comment about a saxophone during WWII, they may have never tied the knot.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2021 at 6:00 AM CST
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
WSFA and the Alabama Department of Archives and History are proud to announce a partnership that will help preserve and make accessible to the public much of the station’s historic footage.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 6:33 PM CDT
|By John Shryock
On Thursday night, Kayla Hardin battles it out on Bravo TV’s new “Top Chef” spinoff series called “Top Chef Amateurs.”
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 5:47 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
Six months before Rosa Parks took her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, there was Times, who got into a fist fight with the same bus driver on the racially segregated bus line.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2021 at 6:35 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Bush, along with the entire USC football team, saw their playing records for 2005 stripped away, and five years after earning it, Bush forfeited the title of Heisman Trophy Winner. But will that change?
Updated: Jun. 30, 2021 at 6:18 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
For a man who keeps a song on his heart and is always looking for ways to put a smile on his bride’s face, Ernest Griggs had heard the happy birthday song enough. That's when he slid out of his booth and stood up.
Updated: May. 25, 2021 at 7:42 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
The 4-year-old Pit Bull/Bull Terrier mix made headlines across the country following a profile story on her plight on May 12. The shelter was overwhelmed with people wanting to adopt. Now, there's good news.
Updated: May. 25, 2021 at 3:50 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
It’s unclear who drove over the mural or whether it was accidental or intentional, but there is a bit of irony in the incident.
Updated: May. 21, 2021 at 4:40 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Sgt. Gary Willford Jr., is back, and he says he wants to tell the “rest of the story” of the “old guy” who joined the Guard.
Updated: May. 12, 2021 at 11:10 AM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Rutabaga has been overlooked and passed-by for possible adoption for more than two years, the longest stint on record for the East Alabama Humane Society in Phenix City.
Updated: May. 3, 2021 at 7:09 AM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Tonya announced to viewers on Monday that she is leaving WSFA 12 News after more than 18 years.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2021 at 4:32 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Autauga County EMA Director Ernie Baggett confirmed Thursday that issues with the county's weather siren system have been fixed a week after popping up.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2021 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By John Shryock
Two small bear cubs dubbed Big Al and Aubie have been returned to the wild in Alabama after being taken care of by a Tennessee organization for about a week.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2021 at 2:15 PM CST
|By John Shryock
The cubs are only two months old and weigh just five pounds right now. But that will change quickly as they grow into massive adults.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2020 at 11:16 AM CST
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
These lifelong residents of Greenville have lived in the same house the entirety of their marriage, a quiet event that, on this upcoming Monday, will have started 26,664 days ago.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2020 at 11:35 AM CST
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Caton was a member of the WSFA-TV family from 1966-1975, serving as both the 6 p.m. news anchor and news director during the tumultuous Civil Rights era.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2020 at 3:50 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
One of Montgomery’s largest churches is mourning the loss of a life-long member who made it his mission to share the gospel through music.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 2:47 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
A Montgomery couple is about to mark a milestone few achieve, 70 years of marriage. And they’ll celebrate it in a relatively quiet manner on Saturday.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
The school has grown by leaps and bounds over the past six years thanks to community support, but it’s been limited in where it could take its students because of a lack of transportation.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 4:42 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
A photo of little Kinsley Wright’s loved ones peering through a window to see her start her first day of kindergarten shows their dedication, but it fails to reveal the distances they’ll go out of passion for family.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 6:34 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
A rural southeast Alabama county that borders Florida is accustomed to being last when it comes to COVID-19. It was the last to confirm a case and now the last to confirm a death.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 11:42 AM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Jack's Family Restaurants wants to make a star out of your grandma, your grammy, your gramps, or your even your granddaddy.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2020 at 5:56 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
An investigation is underway to determine who splattered a red substance across the marble steps of the Alabama Capitol Wednesday afternoon and why.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2020 at 6:18 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
For ASF actress and Associate Artistic Director Greta Lambert, Olivia de Havilland lives on in the precious memories she’s held for decades.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2020 at 3:53 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
It all came to an end Thursday with owner Phyllis Tampling welcoming in her regulars for the last time before a final closing.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2020 at 4:09 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
A number of century-old Confederate statues have come down around the South in recent years, but the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 has stymied most local efforts. Still, it's being tested around the state.
Updated: May. 14, 2020 at 1:05 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
For months, the pews at churches across Alabama have sat empty, the lights off, the choir lofts silent. And they may stay that way a little longer.
Updated: May. 5, 2020 at 6:46 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Chalk it up to the consequences of a pandemic, but an Alabama mother and daughter have rekindled an artistic passion dating back decades.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2020 at 4:29 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
Shauna Henderson wasn’t going to let ruined plans rain on her little boy’s parade. She made a call and set the wheels in motion to have a parade rain on him!
Updated: Apr. 28, 2020 at 6:23 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
For Amanda Shaw and her four young sons, it’s not a place they’re dreaming of visiting when the dangers of the pandemic have passed. It’s a person.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2020 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
When Tucker Edwards grows up, he’ll probably hear the stories of how his birth was announced to eagerly awaiting family members.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2020 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
The pandemic has rapidly decimated the state’s tourism work force, and in record time.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2020 at 11:15 AM CDT
|By John Shryock and WSFA 12 News Staff
A Montgomery Walmart employee made his national television debut over the weekend as part of a television commercial.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2020 at 5:17 PM CDT
|By John Shryock
When the studio lights were drawn down at 11 p.m. Friday, a chapter in the history of WSFA Television closed. Now, it's time for an exciting new chapter in a new downtown home.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2020 at 6:09 PM CDT
|By Sally Pitts and John Shryock
Because there’s so much to be learned about coronavirus, or COVID-19, it can be easy to run into misinformation about the virus.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2020 at 11:45 AM CDT
|By John Shryock and Sally Pitts
The trucks, loaded with berries, carrots, cabbages and more, started rolling in after a request that it not go to waste.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2020 at 5:15 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama announced Wednesday it was suspending production after a team member tested positive for the COVID-19 illness.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2020 at 4:24 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
While Alabama remains off the list of states with cases of the respiratory disease, it is now in the minority.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2020 at 5:44 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
The rising waters of the Coosa River have overtaken much of Wetumpka’s Gold Star Park.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2020 at 4:10 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
The large, granite Ten Commandments monument that brought a national spotlight to Alabama nearly two decades ago is coming back to the state's capital city.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2020 at 12:50 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
It’s all in the presentation when you’re about to sign a commitment to your school of choice, and the competition to be the most original can get 'ruff'.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2020 at 1:05 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
The White House confirmed the guest list Tuesday morning, and among those invited is an Alabama man who now owns a successful government contracting business called SDAC.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2020 at 6:07 PM CST
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and John Shryock
A check for $10,000 has brought music to a lot of ears at Montgomery’s Carver High School, and it came from a man who wants to see his alma mater’s band thrive.
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