Chris Tatum
Anchor at WAAY-TV (Huntsville, AL)
I am an award-winning journalist with a passion for GREAT storytelling. I co-anchor mornings at WAAY 31 and love Love LOVE being back in the Tennessee Valley.
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1 month ago |
waaytv.com | Chris Tatum
A Morgan County judge says he won't postpone Mac Bailey Marquette's upcoming immunity hearing and trial. Judge Charles Elliott issued that ruling Thursday. Marquette's lawyer requested that postponement last Friday, while he awaits a ruling from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on his motion to have Elliott removed from the case.
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1 month ago |
waaytv.com | Chris Tatum
For the first time, we're seeing former Decatur Police Officer Mac Bailey Marquette's account of what happened the morning prosecutors say he shot and killed Steve Perkins. In a section of that motion titled "The Shooting," Marquette says he was on patrol the morning of Sept. 29, 2023, when he got "called as back-up" to a towing company in Decatur.
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1 month ago |
waaytv.com | Chris Tatum
From the start of American Idol, Alabama has proved it's chock-full of homegrown talent. Between 2003 and 2006, Alabama produced two American Idols and one runner up. Birmingham's Ruben Studdard earned the top title in 2003, Huntsville's Bo Bice was runner up to American Idol Carrie Underwood in 2005, and in 2006, Birmingham native Taylor Hicks became the American Idol. Hicks put his heart into his Idol audition and two judges voted for him.
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1 month ago |
waaytv.com | Chris Tatum
The former Decatur Police officer charged with killing Steve Perkins wants a judge to halt all future court proceedings, including his upcoming immunity hearing and trial. Mac Bailey Marquette's lawyer filed that motion Friday. He wants a state appeals court to rule whether Marquette was using his legal discretion as a police officer, when he killed Perkins. Police initially said Perkins had a gun, and that Marquette shot him after ordering him to get on the ground.
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1 month ago |
waaytv.com | Chris Tatum
Huntsville's Old City Hall stands proud above the downtown district, and casts its shadow over Big Spring Park. Workers are now tearing down the old building, and that has Huntsville's 3 living mayors remembering their time in the iconic building. In the 1960s, Old City hall represented cutting-edge construction and state-of-the-art stability.
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