Alabama linebacker Terrell Lewis has had surgery to repair a torn knee ligament. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban says Lewis tore his right ACL last week while training.

The federal government would be required to release records from unsolved criminal cases linked to the civil-rights era under a bill proposed Tuesday. Alabama Democratic U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, a former prosecutor who sent two Ku Klux Klansmen to prison for a racist killing, introduced the legislation, saying existing laws don’t go far enough to […]

Federal transportation officials are investigating after a small plane crashed in an Alabama community, killing the pilot. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says it responded Monday about 7 p.m. in the Macedonia community.

A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn Tuesday after eight inmate plaintiffs asked to be put to death by the state’s new execution method: inhaling nitrogen gas. The Alabama attorney general’s office and lawyers for inmates submitted a joint motion Tuesday to dismiss the litigation.

Alabama officials say two people have been bitten by foxes, and concerns about such attacks and rabies are growing. The state Department of Public Health tells news outlets in a Monday statement that both bites were reported in Robertsdale.

An Atlanta-based technology company plans to construct a data center at an old steel-making site in downtown Birmingham. DC BLOX announced Monday it will use the 27-acre site of a former Trinity Steel plant to locate a facility that could be valued at some $785 million over the next decade. The initial, 31,000-square-foot Birmingham data […]

Alabama has dismissed linebacker VanDarius Cowan from the team for violating unspecified team rules. Coach Nick Saban announced the decision Monday in a statement, saying “each of us has a responsibility to represent the University of Alabama in a first-class way, and failure to meet those standards can’t be tolerated.”

Authorities say a burglary suspect died after being apprehended by a police dog in Montgomery, Alabama. A police statement says a canine unit responded to a report of a burglary in progress early Sunday, and the animal apprehended a man inside a home.

A week before the GOP runoff, challenger Troy King filed an ethics complaint Monday against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, saying the heavy financial support he has received from the Republican Attorneys General Association is illegal. However, a lawyer for the Republican group called the complaint a “desperate ploy of a flailing campaign.”

An Alabama man who authorities say took over a church pulpit during worship and talked about his pending divorce was tackled by congregation members and arrested after allegedly trying to pull out a gun. Limestone County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Stephen Young tells news outlets 34-year-old Thomas Zebulun Lewter of Athens is charged with making a […]

Police in Mississippi say a man charged in a crime spree that included a killing in Alabama has been apprehended in Houston. News outlets report U.S. Marshals took 31-year-old Devarian Edwards into custody Friday.

A floating bale of cocaine has been recovered in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida. Citing a U.S. Coast Guard release, news outlets report more than 75 pounds (35 kilograms) of cocaine was found in the package on Sunday.

Like the old Johnny Cash song, the Alabama Blues Project will soon have its own home of the blues — a permanent spot, just around the corner from heartache. The Tuscaloosa-based Alabama Blues Project has been migrating from one available space to another for the past two decades, The Tuscaloosa News reported .

Alabama’s busiest airport is adding a new convenience for travelers with electric cars: free vehicle chargers. Officials say nine new chargers are being added in the parking deck at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.

Volunteer groups from several U.S. states were stranded in Haiti Sunday after violent protests over fuel prices canceled flights and made roads unsafe. Church groups in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Alabama are among those that haven’t been able to leave, according to newspaper and television reports.

No damage is being reported after a minor earthquake rattled northwest Alabama. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 2.8 earthquake happened around 3:30 a.m. Friday about a half-mile southwest of Muscle Shoals.

An Alabama woman is charged with felony animal cruelty in the death of a dog left in a hot car outside a Walmart store. Jefferson County jail records show 34-year-old Stephanie Shae Thomas of Trussville was released on bond early Friday after spending a few hours in custody.

Police in Alabama say a man broke into his estranged wife’s home and tried to sexually assault her before she shot him. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian tells AL.com that 31-year-old Eric Austin was arrested Thursday on charges of attempted rape and second-degree domestic violence. Christian says the woman told responding deputies she shot […]

The second tropical depression of the 2018 hurricane season has formed over the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the depression formed Thursday morning.

Authorities are trying to answer questions surrounding the death of a woman whose body was found at a northwest Alabama landfill. Police say state medical examiners will conduct an autopsy to determine what killed 29-year-old Casie Winborn of Russellville.

The body of a man who disappeared while swimming in a lake at Alabama’s largest state park has been located. Authorities in the Birmingham suburb of Pelham say divers recovered the body Wednesday night at Oak Mountain State Park after a search that included the use of underwater radar at the beach area.

A fraternity hoping to rent a restaurant pavilion for a social event says in a lawsuit that the Alabama business refused because most of its members are black. The Tuscaloosa Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity made the allegations in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last week against the Cypress Inn in Tuscaloosa.

Less than two months after he took the oath of office, former Northport Mayor Wayne Rose has resigned his appointed position as a representative on the City Council. The Tuscaloosa News reports Rose was sworn in on May 7 and attended the following council meeting May 21.

A Marine veteran is running from Alabama to his hometown in Indiana to raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among veterans. Kyle Killinger left a veterans memorial in Huntsville, Alabama, before dawn on Tuesday.