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13Sep/10Off

Cleaning Crews Find Powdery Substance in Decatur City Hall

Cleaning crews found a powdery substance on the floor of a first floor women's bathroom inside Decatur City Hall Monday afternoon.

Decatur Fire and Rescue and Hazmat were called into the scene.

Mayor Don Stanford ordered all employees to go home when crews found the substance around 2:45 p.m.

Lt. Jonathan Green of the Decatur Police Department said he didn't think it was serious, but still precautions had to be taken.

"The substance wasn't packaged and there was no note of any kind associated with it. We have no reason to believe anything criminal was afoot. We believe the substance will turn out to be a

12Aug/10Off

WAAY-TV Announces News, Schedule Changes

WAAY 31 General Manager Art Lanham announced some sweeping new changes to the WAAY-TV schedule on Thursday afternoon.

Beginning on September 13th, WAAY 31 News will become WAAY 31 First News. In addition to the new name, there will be new start times for your favorite shows.

WAAY 31 News This Morning will now be called WAAY 31 First News in The Valley, and begin at 4:30 a.m., and run through 7:00 a.m. This favorite wake up news show will continue to be anchored by Erin Dacy, TW Starr and Gary Dobbs.

WAAY 31 Mid Day News will now be called WAAY 31 First News at 11. It will continue to run from 11:00 a.m. - noon. Haley Baker, who is now on maternity leave, will be returning soon and will be working with Gary Dobbs.

The Doctors, which has a become a hit medical show, will move from its current time slot to 3:00 p.m.

WAAY 31 will be debuting a new 4:00 p.m. newscast, called "WAAY 31 First News at 4", with the Tennessee Valley's first and only local news and weather newscast that will prepare you for the night ahead. It will be followed by an episode of the hit game show "Jeopardy".

"WAAY 31 First News at 5" will lead in to ABC World News Tonight at 5:30. This newscast will feature Guy Hornbuckle, Melissa Riopka, Brad Huffines with his exclusive Storm Force weather cast and Ronnie ‘Slam' Duncan, with the local sports you will find no where else. At 6:00 WAAY 31 will air new episodes of "Jeopardy".

WAAY 31 News at 10 will become "WAAY 31 First News at 10", also anchored by Guy, Melissa, Brad and Ronnie.

"Our viewers will not only have a choice of more news programming, but our "First News" philosophy will be to focus first on the most important news

25Jul/10Off

Phenix City fully engulfed in flames