terroristic threat

Telling the story of 9/11 has become the labor of U.S. schools now that about 1/3 of Americans weren’t yet born on Sept. 11, 2001. The Associated Press has found that a growing majority of states — at least 40 — now expect or suggest that public schools address 9/11 in some way. The AP analyzed how this story is told on a state by state basis, including here in Alabama.

Federal prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one rabbi that “I want you to die.” Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Alabama, was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was arrested earlier on related state charges of resisting arrest and possession of a pistol by a person forbidden to legally have a handgun.

The Limestone County Sheriff's Office is announcing actions have been taken against a Clements High School student for making a terrorist threat. The FBI discovered the threat on Sept. 11. An Elkmont High School student was arrested the same day for making the same threat.

A central Alabama woman will spend about a decade in prison for providing material support to a terrorist group. Arwa Muthana of the Birmingham suburb of Hoover pleaded guilty along with her husband to helping the Islamic State.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Prosecutors say a University of South Alabama student is accused of making a terroristic threat after he wrote song lyrics by a…