Police say a man killed his 10-year-old son and his sleeping 84-year-old mother before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life in northern Alabama. Athens police said in a statement that William “Billy” Christopher shot 10-year-old Chevy Christopher and 84-year-old Betty Sue Christopher on Saturday in Athens.

Two Georgia residents are accused of scamming north Alabama residents out of nearly $19,000 by phoning to say they’d missed federal jury duty and would be arrested unless they sent money immediately. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Birmingham, Alabama, says 35-year-old Teiana Marie Taylor and 42-year-old Orenthial Walker, both of Decatur, Georgia, were arrested Monday […]

American culture has become “less hospitable to people of faith,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday in vowing that the Justice Department would protect people’s religious freedom and convictions. Sessions spoke at a Justice Department summit on religious tolerance at a time when courts have been asked how to balance anti-discrimination laws against the First […]

Attorneys for a police officer facing murder charges say a judge’s comments that the officer’s story was not “credible” have tainted the jury pool in the case scheduled for trial in two weeks. Attorneys for Aaron Smith on Friday filed a motion asking to remove Montgomery Circuit Judge Greg Griffin and transfer the trial to […]

Plans for completing an idled nuclear plant in northern Alabama are to be unveiled soon. Al.com reports that the plans for the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant in Jackson County are to be unveiled Monday.

Local airports in Alabama will see improvements to their infrastructure through more than $25 million in grants from the Federal Aviation Administration. U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby said this week the grant will help 25 airports with improvements, new structures and safety advances.

An Alabama-based company has completed a $575 million acquisition in producing gas and oil. Diversified Gas & Oil of Birmingham completed the acquisition this week of EQT Corporation’s southern Appalachian, Al.com reported .

Alabama’s public schools chief is giving schools guidance for a program that would allow designated administrators to access guns or weapons stored on campus. Superintendent Eric Mackey sent the memo out Friday to school systems emphasizing that program is voluntary.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the 78-year-old civil rights icon and veteran congressman from Georgia, was released from the hospital Sunday evening after his weekend admission for an undisclosed reason. Lewis’ spokeswoman, Brenda Jones, said in an emailed statement that Lewis left the hospital a day after he was admitted for “routine observation.”

Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday dismissed a challenge to debate Democratic Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox ahead of the gubernatorial election, saying only reporters and her opponent care about debates. “There are only two people that ever bring up the subject.  Y’all in the media and my opponent,” Ivey said in response to a […]

The auctioneer selling the house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South amid death threats said after the auction on Thursday there are buyers interested, but it will take a few days to work out the details. The house was included in an auction by Guernsey’s in New York as part of a […]

Authorities say a federal agent drowned in a northern Alabama river during a weekend outing. Marine patrol troopers tell WAFF-TV that he died after jumping into the water from a boat to help a woman retrieve items that blew away from a boat on Sunday.

Former Alabama and NFL quarterback John Parker Wilson is the new radio color analyst for Crimson Tide football games. Jim Carabin, vice president and general manager of Crimson Tide Sports Marketing, also said Thursday Rashad Johnson will be the new sideline reporter.

A judge refused to grant immunity Thursday to a white Alabama police officer who said he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot an unarmed black man in 2016. Montgomery police officer Aaron Cody Smith will go on trial next month on murder charges for the death of 58-year-old Greg Gunn.

A white Alabama police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man is asking a judge to rule that he’s immune from prosecution. Circuit Judge Greg Griffin has scheduled a hearing Thursday to consider the request by Montgomery police officer Aaron Cody Smith.  He’s set for trial next month in […]

An environmental group says it will sue Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA and an Alabama city over plans for a $1.6 billion factory that the group says will damage a habitat of a rare fish. News media report that the Center for Biological Diversity told a federal court Wednesday that the Huntsville-area project threatens to pollute […]

Maryon Pittman Allen, one of only two women to serve as a U.S. senator from Alabama, has died. Allen’s nephew, state Sen. Trip Pittman, says his aunt died Monday.  She was 92. Allen was a journalist for The Birmingham News who married state politician Jim Allen, who died while serving in the Senate in 1978.

An Alabama lawmaker has been indicted in what prosecutors say was a scheme to pressure the state’s largest insurance companies into covering treatments at a chain of diabetes clinics where he had a financial interest. Federal court documents show that Republican Rep. Randy Davis of Daphne was indicted Tuesday on conspiracy to commit bribery and […]

Defeated Senate candidate Roy Moore has filed a defamation lawsuit against a super PAC that ran an advertising blitz focused on sexual misconduct accusations against him during the campaign, his attorney announced Wednesday. Moore’s attorney, Melissa Isaak, said Highway 31 super PAC ran defamatory and misleading ads during the 2017 race, including one that said […]

A federal appeals court says a lawsuit can go forward challenging an Alabama law that blocked the city of Birmingham’s attempt to set a minimum wage. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a judge’s order dismissing the lawsuit.

A south Alabama sheriff wants the state to close a prison facility where three inmates escaped in 24 hours. Baldwin County Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack tells WPMI-TV prisoners are just walking away from the work release center at Loxley.

A man has died after he was electrocuted while working on an Alabama high school. Shelby County Coroner Lina Evans told news outlets that 35-year-old Ladarius Williams of Birmingham was on a ladder at Thompson High School in Alabaster working on an electrical line in the ceiling around 3 p.m. Tuesday.

A Mobile street will be named in honor of a victim of a racially motivated Jim Crow-era murder. Al.com reports the agenda item calling for Tennessee Street to also be named in honor of Rayfield Davis was initially listed under resolutions being introduced, which means it would have been held over for a week for […]

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in October over whether Alabama can execute an inmate diagnosed with stroke-related dementia who lawyers contend can no longer remember killing a police officer in 1985. The court set oral arguments for Oct. 2 in the case of Vernon Madison.