Jurors acquitted an Alabama physician accused of prescribing drugs that killed a former guitarist for rock band 3 Doors Down. The not guilty verdict was returned Monday in the case of Dr. Richard Snellgrove, court documents show. Snellgrove had been indicted on 13 counts of unlawful distribution of drugs and health care fraud tied to […]

Police in Alabama have identified man whose body was found in a pickup truck that plunged into a river after driving off a bridge. Authorities say 56-year-old Bobby Lee Benefield of the Ball Play community in Etowah County was identified after the truck was removed from the Coosa River at Gadsden on Monday.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is opposing parole for a woman convicted of killing a Georgia teenager more than 35 years ago. Ivey is urging the state’s parole board to reject an early release for Judith Ann Neelley. Members are scheduled to consider her case on Wednesday. Neelley was convicted with her husband of killing 13-year-old […]

Alabama’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, challenging the longstanding practice of including immigrants living in the country illegally in U.S. Census counts that are used to determine congressional districts. In the lawsuit filed Monday, Attorney General Steve Marshall argues that the predicted 2020 census numbers will cause Alabama to lose […]

A southeast Alabama school system says it can’t punish students who are seen chanting a racial epithet and cursing the NAACP in a video on social media. Phenix City Schools superintendent Randy Wilkes told a news conference Monday the video showing five young men is “terribly offensive.” But he says it doesn’t have any apparent […]

Alabama authorities are investigating a Facebook video posted by a prison inmate, showing two prisoners forcing a third at knifepoint to bend over for a spanking. AL.com reports the video posted Monday shows a 26-year-old St. Clair County Correctional Facility inmate holding a paddle and hitting an older inmate, while another inmate holds a large knife. […]

Authorities say a man’s body has been recovered from the truck that drove off a bridge and plunged into a river in Alabama. Gadsden Police Sgt. John Hallman told AL.com the adult white male’s body was found inside the burgundy truck pulled from the Coosa River on Monday, a day after it rammed through a […]

State Sen. Bill Hightower is stressing his background as a businessman as he runs for governor on a sweeping platform of government overhauls that includes term limits for legislators and replacing the state income tax code with a flat tax. The Mobile Republican says he believes long-serving politicians have become the “enemy of improvement” in […]

A 5-year-old Alabama boy died after getting caught up in rough surf on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The News Herald reports Christian Doyle of Dothan, Alabama, was one of three swimmers pulled from the water off Panama City Beach on Saturday evening. Officials say single red surf warning signs were flying at the time, notifying beachgoers […]

Authorities say a 61-year-old old inmate has escaped from Alabama’s prison for elderly and sick prisoners. A statement from the Department of Corrections say Davis Curtis Wood was wearing only white boxer shorts when he fled the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed Center on Monday morning.

Storms that moved across the Deep South left damage scattered across three states. The Storm Prediction Center says high winds toppled trees and power lines in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia on Sunday. No serious injuries are being reported, but a storm ripped the roof off a business in the north Alabama town of Hazel Green […]

A search is resuming Monday for a truck that drove off a bridge and plunged into a river in Alabama. Gadsden Fire Chief Steve Carroll tells news outlets that witnesses reported the truck plowed through a guardrail on the Meighan Bridge on Sunday afternoon and went into the Coosa River.

Miguel Angel Jimenez finally got to light up a victory cigar after winning a senior major championship. Jimenez won the Regions Tradition on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions major title, closing with a 2-under 70 for a three-stroke victory. He celebrated with a big embrace from fellow Spaniard and two-time Masters winner Jose […]

Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved and digitized after being discovered, folded and wrapped in rubber bands, in a courthouse box. Archivists at historically black Alabama State University are cataloguing and flattening dozens of […]

A student and a teacher are charged with tampering with grades at a south Alabama high school. The attorney general’s office said Friday 18-year-old Matthew Hutchins of Brewton and 58-year-old Lisa Odom of Castleberry face felony charges of altering grades. Hutchins is a student at W.S. Neal High School in East Brewton, where Odom teaches. […]

Alabama’s unemployment rate is holding steady at 3.8 percent. The governor’s office announced Friday that April’s preliminary, seasonally adjusted jobless rate was the same as the March rate. While unchanged, the rate is well below the rate of 4.8 percent in April 2017.

Another rural Alabama hospital is shutting down, this time in the northeastern part of the state. Directors have decided to close RMC Jacksonville at the end of June. The hospital is operated by the Anniston-based RMC Health System, which says some services will be transferred from Jacksonville to other locations in Anniston. The cities are […]

Miguel Angel Jimenez matched the course record with an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Regions Tradition, the first of the PGA Tour Champions’ five major championships. Jimenez birdied the first four holes and broke the front-nine record at 6-under 30 at Greystone Golf & Country Club. The Spaniard took […]

A Florida LGBTQ organization founded in the aftermath of the PULSE nightclub shooting rescinded an employment offer to an Alabama lawmaker on Thursday after a social media post speculating about the Alabama governor’s personal life. The One Orlando Alliance announced it has retracted a job offer to Patricia Todd, Alabama’s only openly gay lawmaker, to […]

A pain specialist faults prescriptions by an Alabama physician accused of federal crimes in the 2016 drug overdose death of a former guitarist for rock band 3 Doors Down. Dr. Richard Snellgrove is accused of unlawful distribution of drugs and health care fraud in a case tied to the death of Matthew Roberts. The Fairhope […]

Authorities have filed additional charges against an Alabama youth evangelist accused of sexually abusing children. Etowah County sheriff’s officials said Thursday they’ve filed new sodomy and sexual abuse counts against 37-year-old Paul Edmond Acton Bowen of Southside. Sheriff Todd Entrekin says the charges involve a juvenile who was allegedly sexually abused over several years. Bowen […]

Texas and Alabama, which last met in 2010 Rose Bowl, will play each other in 2022 and 2023. Texas officials announced the agreement Wednesday. Alabama will travel to Texas in 2022 and the teams meet in Tuscaloosa the following year. The Longhorns will push a home-and-home series with Ohio State from those years back to […]

As she sat in the house where “Great Gatsby” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, once lived, a visitor contemplated the famous Jazz Age couple. “I tried to imagine how maybe Scott would tell a joke and Zelda would laugh,” said Farong Zhu, a Fulbright scholar from China who translated Zelda’s only novel, […]

With bold vision, keen intellect and a gentle manner, Mike Slive guided the Southeastern Conference to unprecedented success and prosperity in 13 years as commissioner. He pushed for a college football playoff years before others embraced it and was a steadying force during a time of enormous growth and volatility throughout college athletics. Slive died […]