Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says the state is working on solutions after the Department of Justice issued scathing findings about Alabama prisons. Ivey said Wednesday morning that federal investigators “identified many of the same areas of concern that we have discussed publicly for some time.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center has named an interim president after its founder was fired and its president resigned. The Alabama-based civil rights group announced Tuesday that Karen Baynes-Dunning is interim president.

The state of Alabama is auctioning off surplus property ranging from office furniture to golf carts. The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs will hold the auction Wednesday in Montgomery.

Funeral services for Alabama State Rep. Dimitri Polizos (R-Montgomery) have been finalized. WSFA-TV reports a public visitation will be held between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday at Leak Memory Chapel in Montgomery. His funeral will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation.

Alabama has hired Nate Oats, who led Buffalo to three NCAA Tournaments in four seasons, as its new men’s basketball coach. Crimson Tide athletic director Greg Byrne announced the hiring Wednesday, three days after parting ways with Avery Johnson.

Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard is asking the state Supreme Court to toss out his 2016 conviction on ethics charges. In a brief filed this week, Hubbard’s attorneys argued he did not commit a violation and that prosecutors stretched the intent of the ethics law when they brought charges against him.

The City of Montgomery Public Art Commission is seeking artists to be part of the Montgomery Book Bench Project. It is a new effort to encourage reading, provide a place for people to rest and to instill an appreciation of public art in the community.

Grammy-winning Alabama native Jason Isbell is bringing a new music festival to the Shoals area. The first-ever ShoalsFest is set for Oct. 5 and will feature performances by Isbell and The 400 Unit, Sheryl Crow, Mavis Staples and Amanda Shires — his wife — on the event’s main stage.

Alabama officials say a gun maker is losing $3 million in incentives from the state. State Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield told AL.com in an email Tuesday that Remington Arms has failed to meet hiring and payroll targets at its Huntsville plant, costing it $3 million in incentives.

Former Auburn University assistant coach and 13-year NBA veteran Chuck Person pleaded guilty Tuesday to a bribery conspiracy charge in the widespread college basketball bribery scandal, ensuring that none of the four coaches charged in the probe will go to trial. Person, 54, of Auburn, Alabama, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, averting a […]

A federal appeals court sided with news media organizations Monday in ruling that Alabama cannot keep its lethal injection protocol secret from the public. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta rejected Alabama’s argument that its execution method is not a court record and thus should remain secret.

Reality television star June “Mama June” Shannon has been arrested on drug charges in Alabama. News outlets report that Shannon and a friend, Eugene Doak, were arrested March 13 at a gas station in Macon County where he was heard threatening her.

People across the nation are helping to find homes for animals evacuated from shelters in an Alabama community that was devastated by a tornado. The twister left 23 dead and dozens of people injured as it roared across the community of Beauregard on March 3.

The county with Alabama’s lowest unemployment rate is in need of more workers. WBRC-TV reports that employers in Shelby County just south of Birmingham are having trouble filling some jobs.

Schools are closing early in north Alabama because of the possibility of severe weather. The National Weather Service says numerous severe storms are possible beginning Thursday afternoon in the Tennessee Valley region and as far south as the northern Birmingham area. Forecasters say winds up to 60 mph are possible along with isolated tornadoes and […]

A former beauty queen from Alabama will be featured on the upcoming season of “The Bachelorette.” University of Alabama graduate Hannah Brown of Northport was named the newest “Bachelorette” during the season finale of “The Bachelor” on Tuesday night.

A small earthquake has hit the Gulf Coast for the third time in a week. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a magnitude 2.3 earthquake occurred Tuesday night near Flomaton, Alabama, near the state line with Florida.

The Alabama Forestry Commission estimates timber losses caused by deadly tornadoes on March 3 at nearly $5.9 million. That is almost $1,000 per acre of timberland damaged by two or three tornadoes in Macon, Lee and Barbour counties.

The daughter of an Alabama woman whose cremated remains were lost by a funeral home has been awarded $12 million. AL.com reports the jury verdict was announced Monday after Pine Crest Funeral Home in Mobile lost the remains of Shelley Hood’s mother, Cecille Howard Taylor Gardner.

Alabama’s unemployment rate is unchanged at a record low level. The Alabama Department of Labor says the state’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted jobless rate for January was 3.8 percent.

The pastor of a church that became a center for shelter, help and grieving when a tornado killed 23 people in eastern Alabama said in his first Sunday service after the storm that the Lord has reached out his hand to the community. Imperfect things like tornadoes and other tragedies happen because we live in […]

An Alabama judge has approved a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a 21-year-old man on behalf of an aborted embryo. AL.com reported Wednesday that Ryan Magers is calling the six-week-old embryo “Baby Roe” in his suit seeking damages from the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives.

Forecasters are upgrading the likelihood that severe storms and strong tornadoes could strike parts of the South less than a week after a twister killed more than 20 people in Alabama. A region that includes parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee will be at heightened risk of severe weather Saturday, the national Storm Prediction […]

Officials overseeing the disaster response to a tornado-stricken community in Alabama say all people reported missing have been accounted for with no increase in the death toll. Lee County Coroner Bill Harris told a news conference Wednesday that the death toll stands at 23, but his office is “in standby mode on the outside chance […]