The remains of solider killed during the Korean War have been returned to his family in the U.S. News outlets report that a casket carrying Army Sgt. Julius Ellis McKinney arrived Wednesday morning at Memphis International Airport in Tennessee.

An Alabama inmate who was serving time for killing two people in the 1970s has been found dead in a prison infirmary. Al.com cites the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office as saying 66-year-old Donald Thigpen was pronounced dead Tuesday around 8 p.m.

An Alabama county has elected a new probate judge and school superintendent. Citing unofficial results, Al.com reports the Tuesday Republican primary in Shelby County decided the two roles as no Democrats were in either race.

An Alabama lawmaker has been indicted on federal charges that he paid kickbacks to a doctor’s office that referred Medicare patients to his health care business. The indictment against Republican state Rep. Ed Henry of Hartselle was unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Montgomery.

An Alabama man has been charged with taking parts stripped from stolen vehicles and selling them on the website Craigslist. WKRG-TV reports Baldwin County sheriff’s deputies arrested Travis McCryndle on Wednesday on charges of receiving stolen property and operating a motor vehicle theft facility out of Daphne.

Two years after withdrawing election support for Donald Trump because of his comments about women, U.S. Rep. Martha Roby of Alabama has been forced into a runoff with a former congressman that will gauge what is the bigger political sin for a Republican in a Deep South district: Criticizing President Trump or being a former […]

An attorney for an Alabama lawmaker indicted on federal charges in an alleged kickback scheme says his client is “guilty of no crimes.” Republican state Rep. Ed Henry of Hartselle was arrested Thursday after being charged in U.S. District Court with paying kickbacks to a doctor’s office that referred Medicare patients to his health care […]

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence Wednesday of a woman serving a life sentence in Alabama for drug offenses. Her cause was championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West in a recent visit to the White House.

With the prospect of a “blue wave” in the November elections, Republicans and Democrats appeared to have escaped embarrassment Wednesday after primaries across eight states. President Donald Trump cast the night as a win for Republicans. “So much for the big Blue Wave, it may be a big Red Wave,” he tweeted Wednesday morning, hailing […]

Georg von Tiesenhausen, the last of the German rocket team that launched the U.S. space program, has died at his Alabama home. He was 104.

Here is a list of the winners and runoff races as a result of Tuesday’s primary voting. Governor Walt Maddox, Dem Governor Kay Ivey (i), GOP

Alabama voters went to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in an array of races. Aside from the governor’s campaign, here are some of the other key races:

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has clinched the Republican nomination for governor without a runoff. Ivey was declared the winner Tuesday night after beating back a field of GOP challengers. She is seeking to win the office in her own right after becoming governor 14 months ago when her scandal-battered predecessor, Robert Bentley, resigned. Huntsville Mayor […]

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby has been forced into a runoff in Alabama’s Republican primary after challengers blasted her 2016 criticism of Donald Trump. Roby faces Bobby Bright in a July runoff in Alabama’s conservative 2nd district — where Trump loyalty has been a central issue. Roby is a four-term incumbent. In campaigning for Tuesday’s primary, […]

It took generations to erect all the nation’s Confederate monuments, and a new report shows they’re being removed at a pace of about three each month. The study — released Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center — shows that 110 Confederate monuments have been removed nationwide since 2015, when a shooting at a black […]

Clarence Founatin, a founding member of the Grammy-winning gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama, has died. Manager Charles Driebe says in an email that Fountain died Sunday in a hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Fountain was 88.

Police in Tuscaloosa are investigating the death of a person whose body was found in a shed. Capt. Kip Hart of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit says the body was found Sunday night in a shed near a Lucky Dollar store.

An industrial parts distributor plans a $9.6 million renovation and expansion for its headquarters in central Alabama. Motion Industries will add 20 percent capacity to the existing facility, with space to add at least 50 new employees, Joe Limbaugh Jr., vice president of operations, distribution and properties, told Al.com .

Josh Anthony drove in five runs and Auburn earned its first super regional appearance since 1999 by pulling away to beat North Carolina State 15-7 on Sunday night in the NCAA Tournament. Edouard Julien homered and had two RBIs for the second-seeded Tigers (42-21).

Authorities say an Alabama death row inmate was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide Sunday morning. The Alabama Department of Corrections said 57-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Borden was found hanging by a bed sheet in his cell during a security check at 2:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at 3 a.m., a prison […]

An inmate who escaped from a work-release center last week has been recaptured in Alabama. The Alabama Department of Corrections told Al.com that 47-year-old Scott Marler was captured about 60 miles away from the Childersburg Work Release Center around 4:36 a.m. Saturday.

Amazon is in talks to build a warehouse near Birmingham that could create up to 3,000 jobs. Public notices show Amazon plans an 855,000 square-foot (7,900 sq. meter) fulfillment center in Bessemer. The Jefferson County Commission will vote next week on spending up to $3.3 million to fund road work and pay incentives to Amazon.

A challenger will remain on the Republican primary ballot for sheriff in a northeast Alabama county. The Gadsden Times reports that the Etowah County Republican Executive Committee declined to remove Rainbow City Police Chief Jonathon Horton from the ballot.

Four north Alabama firefighters were taken to hospitals for heat-related illnesses as they battled an explosive fire at a golf cart dealership. All the firefighters are expected to recover.