Players from the 2017 NCAA National Champion Alabama Crimson Tide football team joined President Donald Trump in prayer on Tuesday. After the team’s visit to the White House celebrating their championship title, punter J.K. Scott asked President Trump if he would join the players in a prayer for the president and his staff.

An Alabama youth evangelist was arrested this week on child sex charges and has issued a statement saying the allegations are false. Media outlets report that police in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover arrested Paul Edward Acton Bowen, 37, of Southside, near Gadsden, on multiple charges involving a boy between the ages of 12 and […]

Uber will start doing annual criminal background checks on U.S. drivers and hire a company that constantly monitors criminal arrests as it tries to do a better job of keeping riders safe. The move announced Thursday is one of several actions taken by the ride-hailing company under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (Cause-row-SHA-hee). He says the […]

Four Mississippi university students are accused of breaking into the University of Alabama’s athletic facility and stealing memorabilia. Authorities say the break-in happened during the pre-dawn hours of April 4, six days before Alabama’s national championship football team met with President Donald Trump at the White House. Court records say the four got inside the […]

The leading Democratic contenders for governor spent much — but not all — of a Wednesday night debate agreeing with each other. Former Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox and former state legislator James Fields appeared in the debate hosted by WVTM in Birmingham. All three expressed support for a state […]

An Alabama city’s only air medical transport service will end operations as the helicopter’s provider opted not to renew the contract. The Tuscaloosa News reports that the Tuscaloosa-based NorthFlight will cease operating Monday, after more than four years of transporting roughly 1,000 critically injured patients by helicopter. The service was a partnership between NorthStar EMS, […]

An Alabama community college has been awarded a $1.5 million federal grant for its planned automotive technology training center in Decatur-annexed Limestone County. Decatur Daily reports the grant was announced Wednesday for the Calhoun Community College’s center, which is expected to cost more than $7 million. Calhoun officials said in September that they had already […]

A capital murder charge against the Rev. Al Sharpton’s half brother will be forwarded to an Alabama grand jury. The Dothan Eagle reported Tuesday that a judge concluded there’s enough evidence to move the case against the Rev. Kenneth Glasgow forward. Glasgow is accused of driving 26-year-old Jamie Townes around to look for a stolen […]

Guard Bryce Brown has joined a list of Auburn players considering entering the NBA draft. The first-team All-Southeastern Conference performer announced his decision to go through the evaluation process Wednesday, but says he’s not planning to hire an agent. He has until June 11 to withdraw from the draft.

Attorneys for the state of Alabama and one of its few abortion clinics faced off before federal judges Tuesday, debating the state’s effort to reinstate a law that let judges put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like process. The state’s legislators in 2014 changed the process for minors to get abortions through a court order […]

Mountain Brook High School’s Trendon Watford and Lee-Montgomery’s Zippy Broughton are the state’s basketball players of the year. Watford was named Mr. Basketball Tuesday by the Alabama Sports Writers Association. Broughton is the state’s Miss Basketball. Watford is one of the nation’s top junior prospects, ranked ninth in the Class of 2019 by 247Sports. He […]

As thousands of National Guard troops deploy to the Mexico border, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to bring his firm stance on immigration enforcement to New Mexico where a group of Southwest border sheriffs are meeting Wednesday. Sessions will speak in Las Cruces at the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition Annual Spring Meeting with the […]

Police say a deadly crash involving a large truck led to an explosion on an interstate in eastern Alabama, and authorities were telling motorists to avoid that stretch of roadway since lanes were blocked. Heflin Police Chief A.J. Benefield said in a statement on social media that the wreck happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday on […]

Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is countersuing a woman who said he sexually touched her when she was 14 and he was 32. Attorneys for Moore filed the defamation counterclaim Monday against Leigh Corfman — who has an ongoing defamation lawsuit against Moore — denying the accusations of misconduct raised by Corfman in an […]

The body of the last of three missing fishermen has been found in Alabama, following a five-day search. Henry County Sheriff Will Maddox tells The Dothan Eagle that searchers located 51-year-old Keith Price, of Headland, near Thomas Mill Creek on Monday morning.

As teachers in multiple states protest for better pay, a new study warns that the fast-growing South region must invest more in public schools and higher education to ensure its homegrown talent shares in its economic prosperity. The State of the South 2018 report, released Tuesday, found that 13 states across the region have failed […]

President Donald Trump is hailing the University of Alabama football team’s “win for the ages” in their latest championship season. Trump hosted Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban and the players at the White House on Tuesday to honor their fifth national title in nine years.

WASHINGTON — Apologetic Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told senators Tuesday it had been “clearly a mistake” to believe the Trump-linked data-mining company Cambridge Analytica had discarded data that it had harvested from social media users in an attempt to sway 2016 elections. Zuckerberg told members of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees that Facebook considered […]

Auburn center Austin Wiley has put his name into the NBA draft pool after being held out last season but doesn’t plan to hire an agent. Wiley announced his decision Tuesday, becoming the third player to declare for the draft from the Tigers, who shared the Southeastern Conference regular season title with Tennessee. He has […]

Some National Guard members have started arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border with more expected as federal government officials seek ways to curtail illegal immigration. The Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico on Monday committed 1,600 Guard members to the border, giving President Donald Trump many of the troops he requested to fight what […]

Sen. Doug Jones, the Alabama Democrat who unexpectedly prevailed in one of the country’s most Republican states, has a book coming out next year. St. Martin’s Press told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Jones’ “Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights” is scheduled for January. Before his […]

A former police officer charged with murder in the death of his exhibitionist wife pleaded not guilty Monday, and the victim’s mother tearfully said she believes him. William Jeffrey West, 44, entered the plea during a hearing in Shelby County, Alabama, where he is charged in the death of 42-year-old Kathleen Dawn West.

Three men are facing charges they raped a 22-year-old woman after she left a Tuscaloosa bar. Capt. Kip Hart of the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office told local news outlets that the woman contacted authorities on March 29 to report the alleged rape.

Federal judges will hear arguments Tuesday appealing an overturned law that let judges put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like process and appoint a lawyer for the fetus in Alabama. A 2014 law changed the process that allows minors to get an abortion with a judge’s waiver instead of parental consent. It allowed the judge […]