Alabama moved closer to allowing death row inmates to be executed with nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used to execute someone. The House Judiciary Committee approved the bill Wednesday. It now moves to the full House of Representatives for a possible floor vote. The bill by Sen. Trip Pittman would allow execution by […]

    A man has been killed in a standoff with Alabama authorities after he shot at deputies attempting to serve him an eviction notice. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office released few details at a Tuesday news conference on the Monday death of 66-year-old Robert Lewis Yates. AL.com reports a SWAT team entered Yates’ home at 6:30 p.m., about five […]

Alabama lawmakers may require more secure covers on restaurant grease pits after a little girl’s death in Auburn. The House of Representatives voted 99-0 for the bill that would require locking manhole covers on the traps. The bill is named the Sadie Grace Andrews Act after the 3-year-old who died in the accident last year. […]

    A man with a rifle stormed into an Alabama restaurant Wednesday morning and opened fire, killing the owner and wounding three other people, authorities said. The suspect entered the City Grill in the east Alabama town of Hurtsboro, yelled out the name of the owner and started firing a .22-caliber rifle, Russell County Sheriff Heath […]

    SEC coaches have selected Tennessee forward Grant Williams is the Southeastern Conference player of the year and Volunteers coach Rick Barnes is the coach of the year. The coaches also named Alabama’s Collin Sexton and Kentucky’s Kevin Knox as co-freshmen of the year. South Carolina’s Chris Silva and Texas A&M’s Robert Williams were […]

    Weeks after a deadly school shooting in Florida, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Tuesday that she is creating a school safety council to make recommendations on securing schools. At a Tuesday news conference, Ivey said the council will seek to make sure that schools have an updated security response plan and training as well as plans for […]

    Five decades after it went missing, a south Alabama woman has found a Tennessee surgeon’s ring while exploring a neighborhood with her metal detector. Al.com reports that Barbara Burgess found Dr. Stephen R. Sheppard’s University of Tennessee Class of 1970 ring in front of a home in a subdivision behind the University of […]

    Alabama lawmakers passed a proposed ethics law change that would exempt economic development activity from the rules governing lobbyists. The House of Representatives approved the bill 78-7 after three hours of heated debate on Tuesday. Proponents of the bill said it was necessary for development while its critics argued it rolled back the […]