Metal detectors at an Alabama high school were not in use the day a 17-year-old student was killed in a shooting on campus, the district’s superintendent said Thursday. Birmingham City Schools Superintendent Lisa Herring said the school system is reviewing security measures and protocols that were in place Wednesday, when Courtlin Arrington was fatally shot in a […]

A train transporting sewage from New York and New Jersey has prompted complaints of a rotten stench and fly infestations in Alabama with Birmingham city officials saying they’re working with authorities to clear the air. The stench is nearly unbearable, Birmingham City Councilman John Hilliard said this week at a city council meeting. Numerous train […]

    Birmingham closed one of its largest schools for a thorough safety sweep Thursday after metal detectors and other security measures failed to keep students from handling a gun in a classroom where one 17-year-old was fatally shot and another wounded in an apparent accident. Birmingham Interim Police Chief Orlando Wilson said investigators are […]

    Three people have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of an Alabama toddler. Huntsville Police Lt. Michael Johnson says in a news release that 26-year-olds Martin Arrendondo Evense, Brittany Nicole Kingston and Dominique Marshawn Russell were arrested Thursday morning. AL.com reports 3-year-old Olivia Robinson was killed when the home she was sleeping in […]

    Dauphin Island officials say the Alabama resort town has largely recovered from hurricane damage and is preparing to host vacationers as spring break season begins. Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier says one of the four public beaches remains closed, but the rest of the town is “up and running” and set for spring […]

    A lawyer for an Alabama inmate whose lethal injection was halted after staffers could not connect an intravenous line argued Monday that his client should not face a second date in the death chamber. Attempting to execute Doyle Lee Hamm a second time would violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual […]

The city of Mobile will get an infusion of $40 million to help with some environmental projects. The monies assigned come from a trust fund created by civil penalties from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The projects to be addressed include watershed restoration, a cross-city greenway and welcome center. Four projects in Fairhope will get […]