Riverfront rumble
The incident that took place over the weekend at the Montgomery Riverfront resulted in the issuance of four warrants, as reported by Lawrence Specker of AL.com.
Montgomery Police has announced the possibility of more arrests as they continue to review video footage. The incident was widely shared on social media and was linked to racial motivations, although this hasn’t been confirmed yet.
The story is still developing, and updates can be found on mocobizscene.com.
Healing Melson
In other news, State Senator Tim Melson from Florence is recovering after suffering a cardiac arrest while in South Korea.
He was part of a delegation from Alabama attempting to attract businesses and teachers to the state.
Fellow senator Arthur Orr administered CPR on Melson, who is a retired anesthesiologist and medical researcher.
Melson is expected to return home in a few days, according to The Alabama Daily News.
Clothes-rack fire
On Saturday night, a fire briefly erupted in a Walmart store in Leeds, resulting in damage to a rack of women’s clothes and the need to discard some produce due to smoke.
According to AL.com’s Lawrence Specker, social media has been buzzing with speculation about whether the fire was deliberately started by late-night Walmart visitors as a diversion during shoplifting.
However, this is just speculation and holds no weight as fire and law-enforcement officials are investigating the incident.
Leeds Fire Marshall Adam Courington said that the employees had successfully put out the fire before there was any structural damage to the building and before the sprinklers went off.
Whale sharks abound
Moving away from Alabama, Warren Kulo reports that fisherman Cory Kauffman of Fort Walton Beach saw and recorded a whale shark for the second time in about three weeks.
Although it may seem like a stroke of luck, the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Fisheries Research and Development said that whale shark sightings along the Florida Panhandle have been on the rise and are currently at their highest level since 2009.
Whale sharks are the world’s largest fish, sometimes growing to more than 40 feet long. Kaufmann estimated that the most recent one he saw was 30 feet long.
More Alabama news
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