The Pentagon says the remains of three U.S. Marines killed when their helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War will be buried this week at Arlington National Cemetery. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that the remains of the three men will be buried as a group with full military honors next Thursday.

The St. Louis-based coal company Peabody Energy has agreed to purchase Shoal Creek metallurgical coal mine from Drummond Co. Inc. for $400 million. Peabody said Friday that the transaction is expected to close by the end of the year.

As U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces mounting criticism from the man who appointed him, he is planning to speak in his home state next week. The Justice Department says Sessions and other Justice Department officials will speak Monday in Birmingham at the department’s National Public Safety Partnership Symposium.

With one in every 10 patients walking into state hospitals without insurance, the Alabama Hospital Association on Thursday launched a campaign to push for expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. Politicians in the Deep South have often opposed expansion, but the Alabama Hospital Association is urging citizens and policy makers to think of expansion as […]

Alabama’s unemployment rate is holding steady at 4.1 percent. Figures released by the state on Friday show Alabama’s jobless rate for August is unchanged from the July rate.

Get ready for the Birmingham Iron, Memphis Express, Orlando Apollos and Atlanta Legends. Those are four of the eight franchise names for the Alliance of American Football, which begins play the weekend after the Super Bowl with a 10-game spring schedule.

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A federal judge has sentenced an Alabama woman to nearly two years in prison for stealing from the company where she worked as a bookkeeper. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. said in a statement last week that U.S. District Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins sentenced 52-year-old Lucy […]

An associate commissioner at the Alabama Department of Corrections has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation. Prison system spokesman Bob Horton said Tuesday that Associate Commissioner Grant Culliver was placed on administrative leave on Sept. 14.

A school district in Alabama is considering implementing a clear backpack policy following the accidental shooting of a student who brought a gun to his elementary school. WHNT-TV reports Huntsville City Schools Superintendent Christie Finley says the policy will make it difficult for students to bring prohibited items on campus.

Gubernatorial challenger Walt Maddox kicked off a statewide bus tour Monday, taking his message on the road as he seeks to gain ground against incumbent Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. The Democratic nominee began the tour in Tuscaloosa where he is mayor.

Federal government lawyers say a 14-year-old leak is releasing much more oil each day into the Gulf of Mexico than officials previously claimed, and it may be getting worse. A Friday court filing in a case involving Taylor Energy Co. says 10,000 to 30,000 gallons (37,000 to 113,000 liters) daily is leaking from multiple wells […]

Alabama’s Supreme Court on Friday voted 5-4 to overturn the death sentence of a Birmingham man convicted in a 2009 robbery and shooting, instead directing a Jefferson County judge to sentence Anthony Lane to life without possibility of parole. The ruling came after the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered Alabama’s courts to reconsider the death […]

University of South Alabama trustees have voted to move forward with construction of a $72 million on-campus football stadium for the 2020 season. President Tony Waldrop authorized the bidding process to start the second phase work on the stadium, AL.com reported.

The four girls killed when a bomb placed by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through a Birmingham church in 1963 were remembered in a Saturday memorial service on the 55th anniversary of the deadly attack. Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson were killed in the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s […]

A volunteer who rocks babies in a neonatal intensive care unit has donated more than $1 million to an Alabama hospital. The University of South Alabama said in a news release last week that Louis and Melinda Mapp donated more than $1 million to USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital’s Hollis J. Wiseman Neonatal Intensive […]

Two jail inmates in Alabama have been captured in Illinois. The Cullman County sheriff’s office told news outlets that Justin Eugene Curington and John Patrick Parsons escaped Wednesday while assigned to pick up trash in Cullman.

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Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday said she has no plans to debate her Democratic challenger as she seeks a full term in office. Speaking to reporters after a speech in Montgomery, Ivey responded to Walt Maddox’s repeated calls for a debate before the November election.

A Boys and Girls Club in Birmingham is planning a new $7.2 million clubhouse. The A.G. Gaston Boys and Girls Club will build the new facility in the Five Points West neighborhood.

A teen has been arrested in the shooting death of a high school football player in Alabama. Birmingham police told news outlets a 17-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday in the shooting death of 16-year-old William Edwards, a captain on the Woodlawn High School football team.

Former Alabama Speaker Mike Hubbard is asking an appellate court to reverse its decision upholding his 2016 ethics conviction. The rehearing request was filed Monday with the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

Officials say an Auburn University student was killed while skydiving in east Alabama. Tuskegee Police Chief Marquez James says 21-year-old Sawyer Stephen Campbell died Sunday afternoon during a jump at the Tuskegee Municipal Airport.

Health officials are planning a meeting to raise awareness of Alabama’s worsening infant death rate. The Infant Mortality Reduction Summit is scheduled Friday at Auburn University at Montgomery. Experts will discuss the problem of infant deaths in the state, which has one of the nation’s worst rates.