An American liberal watchdog group apologized and will pay more than $3 million under an agreement announced Monday after labeling a British organization and its founder as anti-Muslim extremists. The nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery issued written and video statements saying it was wrong to include the London-based Quilliam and Maajid Nawaz in […]

Alabama authorities say an inmate who escaped from a hospital has been recaptured. News outlets report 39-year-old Courtnee Austin was caught after escaping Saturday night. Birmingham police Sgt. Bryan Shelton tells AL.com Austin was bit by a tracking dog inside a crack house and taken into custody Sunday afternoon.

A pilot program will allow limited shark fishing on two dates this month at Gulf State Park. The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said the events will take place at the park’s saltwater fishing pier on June 19 and June 26.

A former state employee has pleaded guilty to forging travel reimbursement forms worth $15,000. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Friday that Yoshkio Denise Givner pleaded guilty to an ethics charge of using her position for personal gain.

Auburn University plans to offer a new degree to help students secure jobs in the fishing and hunting industries. A statement from the school says trustees have approved a new degree in wildlife enterprise management. It will be offered starting in fall 2019 provided a state commission approves.

No more ID cards for University of Alabama students with an Apple Watch or iPhone. In a statement from Apple, students only have to raise their wrist to gain access to places including the library, dorms and events, pay for snacks, laundry and dinners around campus, the Tuscaloosa News reported.

Authorities say a fire has claimed a person’s life in east Birmingham. Al.com reports that fire crews responded to the blaze around 9 p.m. Sunday.

Alabama’s unemployment rate is up slightly from a month ago. The state says the May jobless rate was 3.9 percent, up one-tenth of a percent from a month earlier.

Auburn University has raised its tuition following increases at other colleges in Alabama. AL.com quotes a statement from Auburn’s president’s office in a Thursday report as saying the school’s Board of Trustees decided to hold the tuition increase for fall 2019 at 2 percent.

Two men are charged with capital murder in the slaying of a 13-year-old girl in north Alabama, and her grandmother is missing. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office says 26-year-old Yoni Martinez Aguilar and 34-year-old Israel Gonzalez Palomino are being held in the killing of Marian Feit Lopez.

Crews are searching for a man who went missing in the Tombigbee River near McIntosh. The U.S. Coast Guard said early Friday that a helicopter crew from New Orleans was working with police, volunteers and others in the search.

An American pilot is being buried at Arlington National Cemetery more than 70 years after he crashed on a Pacific island during World War II. Second Lt. Robert Keown (pronounced Cow-uhn) was flying a P-38 aircraft that went down in Papua New Guinea in 1944.

A story circulating online falsely suggests the head of the Alabama Democratic Party has recently been arrested. The stories posted this week on sites called Conservative Army and Right Wing News says that Alabama Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Worley was “recently” in legal trouble after being indicted for several felonies and misdemeanors and had been […]

Facebook announced Thursday that it is investing $750 million to build a new data center in Huntsville. Gov. Kay Ivey announced the project during a news conference in Huntsville. Ivey’s office said the $750 million center will employ 100 people with an average annual salary of nearly $80,000. Ivey said she was pleased that a “forward-thinking, […]

A New Hampshire high school senior class president about to head out for military training couldn’t make his graduation, so he got his own personal ceremony instead. People attending the Prospect Mountain High School senior awards program Wednesday night were asked to stay after the event ended.

The popular true-crime podcast “S-Town” is being developed as a movie. The film production company Participant Media has acquired the feature-film rights to the seven-episode podcast.

An Alabama man will serve 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing an opponent who was shot to death over a game of dominoes. The Decatur Daily reports 68-year-old Sterling Gerome Warren received the sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of 32-year-old Thomas Jerome Bibb Jr. in 2013.

The Birmingham area’s failed bid to be the site of Amazon’s second headquarters is being credited with helping it get in line for another big Amazon project: A distribution center that could open next year. The region submitted a proposal for Amazon’s new headquarters, but it wasn’t selected as a finalist when the company narrowed […]

Police say a 35-year-old Alabama man accused of having more than 30 child pornography videos on his computer has been arrested. Huntsville Police Lt. Michael Jackson told Al.com on Wednesday that Michael Justin Berger had videos depicting children as young as 3.

The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice. Guernsey’s auctioneers said it will offer the house where Parks’ family lived in a midsummer auction in New York City that also will feature […]

Two men who are accused of breaking into a church in Alabama have been arrested. Birmingham police Sgt. Johnny Williams tells AL.com that members of Nichols Temple A.M.E. Church arrived at the building in the morning hours of June 5 to find damage to several items including toilets and urinals.

A Democratic political group launched a legal campaign Wednesday to create additional majority-minority congressional districts in three Southern states, claiming the current maps discriminate against black voters. Attorneys filed separate federal lawsuits in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, challenging congressional maps lawmakers in each state approved in 2011.

Democratic candidate for governor Walt Maddox wants to debate incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey ahead of the November election. Maddox said after winning the Democratic nomination that he wants to debate Ivey and that Alabama voters deserve to hear from the candidates

An inmate has been fatally stabbed at a state prison in Elmore County. Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Horton said Wednesday that the stabbing happened June 9 at the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County.