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The Geneva County Commission has placed the Geneva County School system in a bind after it pulled funds committed to the school resource officer (SRO) program. Per a Dothan Eagle report, the county commission voted in June to give $15,000 to the SRO program this year, including an additional $60,000 next year. After commissioners found that […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Tuesday joined a select group of state attorneys general for "a productive dialogue" led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Department of Justice (DOJ) officials regarding perceived discrimination against conservatives by leading tech companies.

Tuesday is recognized as National Voter Registration Day (NVRD), which Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and Secretary of State John Merrill celebrated by encouraging all of the state's eligible voters to register.

An Alabama city is asking a judge to deny a subpoena from county prosecutors for records related to a fatal police shooting. AL.com reports Huntsville’s city attorney filed a motion Monday asking a judge to reject the Madison County prosecutor’s record request, or allow Huntsville to provide sealed records.

Matt Might, the director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute, delivered a stirring keynote address to mark the national Biden Cancer Summit on Friday.

Suspected illegal immigrant Jose Pascual was arrested for driving under the influence on Saturday afternoon in Mobile.

At the request of state Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur), the Alabama Legislative Services Agency issued a report on Alabama's E-Verify compliance rate, and the results were not good.

Marillyn Hewson - the chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin and a two-time graduate of the University of Alabama - is the most powerful woman in American business, per Fortune magazine's annual ranking.

HOOVER - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Monday delivered opening remarks at the National Public Safety Partnership Symposium, as did Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale, Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith and United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Jay Town.

At a stop on his statewide bus tour that is currently underway, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, offered attendees some of the health care policy proposals he would put forward if elected governor. Among the items that Maddox included according to a tweet from Montgomery’s WSFA were the expansion of Medicaid, money […]

Alabama Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon released a statement on Monday confirming that a lottery bill, which is expected to be proposed in the state legislature in 2019, will not be driven by House leadership.

KyKenKee lumber expansion will add more than 60 jobs

Officials say an Alabama lumber company will add dozens of new jobs following the approval of a tax abatement package. The Tuscaloosa News reports the Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority approved the tax abatement package as part of a $28.2 million capital investment at KyKenKee Inc. during its Thursday meeting.

HOOVER - Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday morning delivered the keynote address to the National Public Safety Partnership (NPSP) Symposium, reaffirming his staunch support of law enforcement and touting the Trump Administration's success in making "law and order" a national focus again.

The Pentagon says the remains of three U.S. Marines killed when their helicopter was shot down during the Vietnam War will be buried this week at Arlington National Cemetery. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that the remains of the three men will be buried as a group with full military honors next Thursday.

Five individuals will soon join the esteemed ranks of the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences 's Hall of Fame at an induction dinner on Thursday, October 4 in the North Zone at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

The Alabama Association for Justice, the state's advocacy group for trial lawyers, donated $100,000 to Justice Tom Parker's campaign for state Supreme Court Chief Justice on Friday through its "Progress for Justice PAC."

Minutes before news broke nationally that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was being forced out by the White House, Attorney General Jeff Sessions immediately left the stage following his speech Monday morning in Hoover at the National Public Safety Partnership Symposium.

After months of shadowy activity and legally questionable shell games, Planned Parenthood Southeast's Alabama PAC finally has revealed a public purpose.

As CBS 42 reported, the Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama graduated the first class from the Birmingham Theological Seminary (BTS) Prison Initiative recently, with one inmate saying, "God is a changer of men and we’re living proof of that."

Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Friday announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $3.2 million grant to Troy University to build a new facility for researching recycled plastic materials, and Pike County Probate Judge Wes Allen joined Shelby in applauding the tremendous news.

In the second reported ambush of police in the last three weeks in Selma, an officer was shot by multiple assailants using high-powered rifles and "military type tactics."

The possibility of a lottery in Alabama’s future is something that has been put forth by both gubernatorial candidates, incumbent Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and Democratic nominee Tuscaloosa Walt Maddox in recent weeks. In an interview that aired on Huntsville’s WHNT on Friday, State House Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) has gone as far as predicting the […]

Krispy Kreme will offer their new "Coffee Glazed" doughnut and "Original Glazed" flavored coffee starting Monday and 13 Alabama locations will participate.

With Mississippi recently adding sports betting to its legal gambling options, the pressure is on for Alabama to not only follow that lead, but to institute a state lottery as well.