Lake Tuscaloosa Home Sale Breaks Record; What To Know For A-Day

Wake up Tuscaloosa! Here's what I'm following and working on this Saturday.

In today's Daily, we have updates on two fatal shootings in Tuscaloosa, an eye-popping home that just sold on Lake Tuscaloosa and all of the events going on today, along with Alabama's A-Day Game.

First, today's weather:

Tuscaloosa can expect a 40% chance of showers, mainly before 11 a.m. today, with a high around 66 degrees and a low around 50.

Patch Pick: Take a look at this! Kim Harwood of Carrie Fitts Real Estate recently completed a $3.25 million sale, which is reportedly the highest residential real estate transaction to date in West Alabama, according to Tuscaloosa MLS records. The 2.5-acre property is 13,529 square feet and has a view of Lake Tuscaloosa.

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Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa

1. Investigators gave updates Friday and identified the man killed in an officer-involved shooting Thursday night with Tuscaloosa Police officers. The man reportedly shot at his two children and their mother in their vehicle, before leading police on a foot pursuit that ended with the man shooting at police, who returned fire and killed him. (More on Patch)

2. In an unrelated shooting and homicide investigation, police identified the man found shot to death Thursday at Springhill Apartments as Omar Childers, 19. No arrests have been made in this case and the investigation remains ongoing. (More on Patch)

3. Richard Trumka, president of The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, issued a video message Friday in support of striking United Mine Workers of America members at Brookwood-based Warrior Met Coal. (Watch)

4. The A-Day Game is set for today in Tuscaloosa and will air at noon local time on ESPN. The final public football scrimmage will see Bryant-Denny Stadium capacity at 50% capacity, with gates opening at 10 a.m. (More)

5. Home prices in the Tuscaloosa metro area were up 6.5% for January 2021 compared to the same month during the previous year. (More on Patch)

Today in Tuscaloosa

- Tuscaloosa Farmers Market (7 a.m. - noon)

- Northport Farmers Market (7 a.m. - noon)

- Celebrate Earth Day at Children's Hands-on Museum (9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.)

- The University of Alabama football's A-Day Game (noon)

- Want an up-close look at professional fishing? Check out the Pride of the South Elites Tour at Lake Tuscaloosa. (5 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook

- Three middle school students from The Capitol School are among the top 10% of middle school STEM projects nationwide and after winning at the state level, will now compete nationally. Sera Stone, Jacob Shankman and Josiah Whatley are all nominated for the 2021 Broadcom MASTERS —a program of Society for Science.

- Work is set to begin Monday on an Elevate Tuscaloosa initiative to improve the Tuscaloosa National Airport runway. The project will see the removal of the existing asphalt on the runway, creating a soil-cement base with new asphalt surface material. Runway end identifier lights will also be installed.

- Tuscaloosa Academy students Michael Constantine and Grayson Kim both qualified for the National Geography Bee’s US National Championship. Michael also qualified for the International World Championship. (More)

- The recipients of the University of Alabama's spring faculty and staff service awards were announced in the Spring Campus Assembly this week. See the honorees here. (More on Patch)

- The University of Alabama System reported 46 new coronavirus cases among students confirmed over the last week on its Tuscaloosa campus and no new cases among faculty and staff. (More)

- The Alabama Law Enforcement Academy celebrated its first graduating class of 2021 this week, with the Tuscaloosa Police Department seeing 13 officers graduate. The Northport Police Department also had two officers graduate. (More)

- Several members of Shelton State’s women’s and men’s basketball teams were recognized with postseason awards. Women: Kirby DeBoard (All-Region 22, 2nd team; All-North Division, 1st team) Thaniyah Marks (All-North Division, 2nd team). Men: Willie Johnson (All-Region 22, 1st team; All-North Division, 1st Team), Justin Buford (All-Region 22, 2nd team; All-North Division 2nd team), and Andres Burney (All-North Division, 2nd team). (More on Patch)

Now you're all caught up to get going on this rainy Saturday. But don't miss out during the rest of the time. Be sure to follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for exclusive content every day of the week!

I'll see you around!

- Ryan

About me: I grew up in Tuscaloosa. I'm a graduate of the University of Alabama, an experienced journalist, editor and columnist and the founder of Tuscaloosa Patch. You can find me at baseball games, public meetings, events in the local arts community and wherever live music is played