The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice. Guernsey’s auctioneers said it will offer the house where Parks’ family lived in a midsummer auction in New York City that also will feature […]

Two men who are accused of breaking into a church in Alabama have been arrested. Birmingham police Sgt. Johnny Williams tells AL.com that members of Nichols Temple A.M.E. Church arrived at the building in the morning hours of June 5 to find damage to several items including toilets and urinals.

Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) called on his colleagues to support funding for additional production of a U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) in this year’s defense bill,  which would be built at Austal USA’s facility in Mobile. Such a move by the U.S. Senate would protect […]

A Democratic political group launched a legal campaign Wednesday to create additional majority-minority congressional districts in three Southern states, claiming the current maps discriminate against black voters. Attorneys filed separate federal lawsuits in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, challenging congressional maps lawmakers in each state approved in 2011.

Retail giants have finally stopped selling a company’s baby monitoring stuffed animals after it was discovered that audio and visual recordings were leaked online to potential hackers over a year ago. Walmart, Amazon, and eBay are ending the sale of CloudPets baby monitoring stuffed animals after over two million devices leaked audio and visual recordings […]

Democratic candidate for governor Walt Maddox wants to debate incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey ahead of the November election. Maddox said after winning the Democratic nomination that he wants to debate Ivey and that Alabama voters deserve to hear from the candidates

An inmate has been fatally stabbed at a state prison in Elmore County. Alabama Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Horton said Wednesday that the stabbing happened June 9 at the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County.

Alabama again is President Donald Trump’s most supportive state, according to a Morning Consult survey released Wednesday. The poll, conducted in May, indicates that 63 percent of Alabama voters approve of Trump’s performance. That edges Wyoming and West Virginia, where the president’s approval rating stood at 62 percent. With 33 percent of Alabama voters disapproving […]

The leader of a group that celebrates the Confederacy is withdrawing a request to erect a monument on a courthouse lawn in north Alabama. Tim Kent, who leads a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, says his request to erect a marker at the Colbert County Courthouse for Confederate Brigadier Gen. James Deshler was […]

An Alabama mayor is backing down from an attempt to ban the media and out-of-towners from council meetings. Paint Rock Mayor Brenda Fisk tells WAAY-TV she issued the ban earlier this year without knowing it would violate the law.

The Best Revival of a Musical win for “Once on This Island” at Sunday night’s Tony Awards brought theater’s highest honor to a contingent from Red Mountain Theatre Company. RMTC, its Executive Director Keith Cromwell and patrons Raymond and Kathryn Harbert all are Tony winners as producers of the award-winning musical. “What an amazing feeling […]

Auburn University researchers have discovered the presence of Aedes aegypti — the primary mosquito that transmits Zika virus, yellow fever and other flaviviruses — in Alabama. After a 26-year absence of the mosquito, Sarah Zohdy, Auburn School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Assistant Professor of Disease Ecology, and wildlife sciences undergraduate student Victoria Ashby have […]

Police in Alabama are investigating an illegal moonshine operation after dozens of fermentation barrels were found in some woods. Eufaula Police Sgt. Donald Brown told news outlets Tuesday the 36 fermentation barrels found Monday could produce about $7,500 in illegal liquor on each run.

An accountant has been sentenced to 20 years for stealing more than $750,000 from the government in northern Alabama. Al.com reports that former Franklin County administrator Crista Madden was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to two counts of use of office for personal gain.

An Alabama cabinet plant has abruptly closed, laying off 445 people. The Opelika-Auburn News reports Masterbrand Cabinets announced the closure of its Auburn plant Tuesday, citing market conditions and a change in consumer tastes.

Police in Alabama have arrested the mother of a baby whose body was found inside a freezer in a hotel room. News outlets report 36-year-old Amanda Gail Oakes is charged with manslaughter and corpse abuse in the death of 6-month-old Curtis James Oakes.

A former deputy accused of choking a woman and sexually assaulting another has been arrested in Alabama. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office told WBMA-TV on Monday that 27-year-old James William Parsons is charged with domestic violence by strangulation, escape and sodomy.

An Alabama sheriff says five men have been arrested during a series of drug operations in recent weeks. Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale told news outlets Monday that cocaine, heroin, meth, opioids, marijuana, several guns and thousands in cash were seized.

According to a column written by Jackson County Sentinel Brandon Cox, one northeastern Alabama community has some “flat illegal” rules governing its town council meetings. Jackson County’s Paint Rock appears to be in violation of Alabama Open Meetings Act, a law that requires all governmental meetings to be open to the public.

Approximately 600 children and adults gathered in Conecuh National Forest to celebrate the reintroduction of the eastern indigo snake to its native habitat in south Alabama. The gathering marked the beginning of what organizers hope will become an annual event, the Eastern Indigo Snake and Wildlife Festival. The eastern indigo snake disappeared from the Alabama landscape in the 1950s. Today, […]

The publisher of an Alabama newspaper is leaving for Missouri, to take over operations for a group of community newspapers. Rex Maynor has been publisher at the Opelika-Auburn News since 2013.

The director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama is retiring. Marshall officials say Todd May announced his retirement to employees at the Huntsville facility on Monday. It takes effect July 27.

Authorities say an Alabama man is accused of shooting into an occupied vehicle and striking the driver. Authorities tell news outlets that 25-year-old Corey Wayne Melson, of Moulton, was taken into custody Thursday.

Last weekend more than 200 anti-abortion activists gathered for a “We Say No!” prayer vigil on the sidewalk in front of an undeveloped property adjacent to I-65 in downtown Birmingham that was recently purchased by Planned Parenthood Southeast, according to organizers. The Charismatic Episcopal Church for Life (CEC For Life), along with many other local pro-life […]