Police say a teenager has been arrested in the shooting at a McDonald’s near Auburn University that left one person dead and four others wounded. News outlets report the 17-year-old boy was arrested Sunday and charged with murder. Authorities have not released the teen’s name, but a statement by Auburn police says he is being […]

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Alabama-based chicken-finger chain Foosackly’s says the computer systems that processes credit card and debit card payments at their stores was the target of a cyberattack. Citing a letter, news outlets reported Thursday that a malicious computer program was installed on the company’s point-of-sale systems to locate and steal payment card information.

A judge has sentenced the former director of an Alabama child care facility to 15 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to stealing almost $200,000. U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon imposed the sentence on 38-year-old Rikki Ross of Hoover during a hearing Thursday.

Failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore on Wednesday sued comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for defamation and emotional distress after being pranked on the actor’s television show. The lawsuit appears to be the first actually filed by one of the string of politicians who were duped and humiliated by Baron Cohen on the show “Who is […]

Don Shepherd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mobile, Alabama, told the Pensacola News Journal a tornado was confirmed overnight near Whiting Naval Air Station in Milton as Tropical Storm Gordon hit the area. The tornado was spotted about 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of the Pensacola mobile home park where a child […]

Tropical-force winds from fast-moving Gordon smashed into the coastline of Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle on Tuesday evening, the frontal edge of a system just offshore that forecasters warned could become a hurricane by the time it makes landfall. Tropical Storm Gordon strengthened some in the final hours as it neared the central Gulf […]

An Alabama police chief says two of his officers were lured and ambushed by “cowards,” and that it is not the first time it’s happened. Selma Police Chief Spencer Collier tells AL.com that up to eight shots were fired at two police investigators called Monday night to a public housing complex.

A new album will throw a spotlight on the famed “Muscle Shoals sound” that made a north Alabama town one of the nation’s premier recording venues. Performers including Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and country singers Alison Krauss, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill and Willie Nelson have tracks on the upcoming “Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound.”

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a state of emergency ahead of the expected landfall of Tropical Storm Gordon. Ivey’s office says she signed the declaration Tuesday morning.

Tropical Storm Gordon is continuing to strengthen and is expected to become a hurricane late Tuesday when it hits the central U.S. Gulf Coast, including coastal Mississippi. From there, it is forecast to move inland over the lower Mississippi Valley on Wednesday.

A vehicle transportation company is bringing its business to Alabama and with it, 140 jobs. AL.com reports Lohr North America is converting a building in Lincoln’s 160-acre (64-hectare) industrial park into a plant where it plans to employ about 140 people.

Three Alabama men are accused of stealing around 100 bronze vases from graves and selling them as scrap metal. AL.com reports 36-year-old Johnathan Miquel Brittain, 28-year-old Colby Adam Humphries and 31-year-old Ronnie Dale Norton II are charged with conspiracy to commit theft.

United Airlines says it is adding more flights and using bigger planes this fall to carry passengers to college football games across the South and elsewhere in the U.S. The Chicago-based airline says in a statement that the added seats will bring passengers to “top college football markets.”

Three people accused of running an Alabama pill mill have been indicted. AL.com reports 85-year-old Dr. John Ladd Buckingham, 53-year-old Cindy Louise Hyche Dunn and 56-year-old Thomas Mason Dunn were indicted Wednesday.

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An Alabama appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and life sentence of a 19-year-old man accused of fatally beating a man with a baseball bat. AL.com reports the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the 2017 conviction and sentencing of Eric Matthew Blackerby on Wednesday.

A 13-year-old girl is in custody after someone threatened on social media to send bombs to several Alabama schools. The Montgomery Advertiser reports the girl was arrested early Wednesday following online threats that appeared Tuesday night.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has reported a string of large campaign contributions as she looks to reclaim fundraising dominance in the gubernatorial race. Campaign finance reports show the incumbent Republican has received $95,000 in large contributions over the last three weeks.

It is the last reunion for members of the famed U.S. Army jungle fighters called “Merrill’s Marauders.” Three thousand volunteered for a dangerous secret mission during World War II — a mission so secret they were not told even where they were going.

A Jefferson County Democrat said Tuesday that he has filed a complaint with national party officials arguing rules and diversity requirements were broken when the Alabama Democratic Party elected leaders. Ralph Young said he filed the complaint with the Democratic National Committee, challenging the election of state chairwoman Nancy Worley.

Airbnb will start collecting another lodging tax in an Alabama city within the next month. AL.com reports the Birmingham City Council approved an agreement Tuesday allowing the short-term rental website to collect the city’s 6.5 percent tax on rentals.

Federal regulators are canceling Alabama Power’s license for the Coosa River dams. The Montgomery Advertiser reported the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made the decision about a license that had been issued in 2013. The decision comes after a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the license did not adequately deal with the negative effects that the […]

Filming has begun in parts of Alabama’s capital city for a movie based on a bestselling memoir. Scenes for “Just Mercy” were being shot on a downtown Montgomery street and in the city’s Garden District on Monday. The Montgomery Advertiser reports that the “Just Mercy” cast includes Michael B. Jordan, who visited a nearby school. […]