An Alabama city councilman has turned himself in on a charge of public lewdness. WSFA-TV reported Friday that a warrant for Samuel Randolph’s arrest was issued Thursday. Randolph represents Selma’s Ward 5. Selma Police Chief Spencer Collier says the charge stems from an April 1 incident in which narcotics officers on a surveillance detail said […]

A campaign worker for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sue Bell Cobb was arrested on charges that he failed to comply with registration requirements and restrictions as a registered sex offender. Local media report that Paul Littlejohn was arrested Thursday. Littlejohn is director of Cobb’s Jefferson County field office. He is also a registered sex offender following […]

Officials say an inmate who died in a fall at a state prison in north Alabama last year killed himself. The News Courier of Athens reports the death of 23-year-old Ben Christopher McClure at Limestone prison has been ruled a suicide. McClure was serving 23 years for murder after pleading guilty in the shooting death […]

A new initiative aims to nudge Alabamians to climb out of their easy chairs and head outdoors to “walk, run, hike, bike, swim, paddle, ride or roll” 100 miles by the end of the year while enjoying the state’s extraordinary scenery. The 100 Alabama Miles Challenge kicks off at 9 a.m. Saturday at Railroad Park […]

Birmingham’s startup scene got a major boost on Wednesday, as a traveling caravan of national tech and innovation leaders met some of the city’s most dynamic entrepreneurs. The Rise of the Rest bus tour, led by America Online founder Steve Case, made stops at key centers of innovation around the Magic City. The day culminated […]

Friends and musicians are gathering in Mobile to remember the late John “Jab’o” Starks, who played drums with funk singer James Brown. A tribute is planned Friday night at the Cedar Street Social Club, followed by a funeral on Saturday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Mobile.

Police are investigating an early morning killing at an apartment complex in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover. Police Lt. Keith Czeskleba says officers responded to the complex around 3:50 a.m. Friday to investigate a call reporting a shooting. They found a 22-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound.

Jurors will begin hearing arguments Friday against an Alabama physician accused of prescribing drugs that killed the guitarist for rock band 3 Doors Down in 2016. Dr. Richard Snellgrove is accused of unlawful distribution of drugs and health care fraud in a case tied to the overdose death of Matthew Roberts. An indictment alleges Snellgrove […]

The Broadway production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will open in December after a lawsuit that threatened to shut down the production was settled Thursday. The deal was announced in a joint statement from producer Scott Rudin’s production company, Rudinplay, and the estate of the late author, Harper Lee. Lawyers declined to elaborate. It came […]

Rutgers University has welcomed a new program to teach the students and staff at the university about illegal immigrants in America and one of the administrators at Rutgers wants to make the program mandatory. The workshop, titled the “DREAM Zone” program, is a three-hour class that originated at New York University and became known to […]

A veteran administrator in Alabama’s community college system has been named interim president at Calhoun Community College. The Decatur Daily reports Joe Burke, who served as vice president and dean of instruction at Northeast Alabama Community College in Rainsville for 11 years, will begin his stint at Calhoun on Monday. He replaces Jim Klauber, who […]

The federal Tennessee Valley Authority will charge its utilities a fixed fee that will likely be passed on to customers, no matter how much energy they use. The decision by the TVA’s board on Thursday is upsetting advocates for ratepayers and green energy, who say it will penalize people who turn off their lights or […]

A trio of Alabama congressmen who helped advance the fiscal year 2019 defense spending bill Thursday highlighted local priorities, from the Redstone Arsenal in the north to shipbuilding on the Gulf Coast. The committee voted 60-1 for the bill — formally called the National Defense Authorization Act — with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) providing the […]

A state board says a parole hearing will occur for a woman originally sentenced to die for the 1982 rape and slaying of a 13-year-old Georgia girl in Alabama. The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles issued a statement Thursday saying that Judith Ann Neelley has not completed a process to waive her parole hearing. […]

A man in Alabama has been accused of fatally shooting his brother-in-law. Fifty-seven-year-old Danny Elmus Perrin is charged with murder for the death of 66-year-old Johnny Michael Foster. AL.com reports Foster was found dead in his Walker County home Tuesday night. Sheriff Jim Underwood says Perrin called his son that night and said he killed […]

An Alabama district attorney says 13 people have been arrested in connection to an undercover investigation that led to the seizure of 128 gambling machines. Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly tells AL.com that each person pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing illegal gambling machines. Connolly says an undercover investigation by the county drug task force […]

An Alabama man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman found dead in a car two months ago. News outlets report Mobile police arrested 51-year-old Kenneth Lee Campbell on a murder charge Wednesday. He’s accused in the death of 27-year-old Lelia Smith, who was found dead March 3.

GE Aviation opened factory complex in Alabama Wednesday that will be the only U.S. location to produce unique materials used to manufacture ceramic components poised to revolutionize jet propulsion. The center in Huntsville is comprised of two adjacent factories standing on 100 acres, where silicon carbide (SiC) materials will be mass produced. The plants are […]

An industrial accident at a lime plant in Alabama has seriously injured one worker. Alabaster Fire Executive Officer Rowdy Tidwell tells AL.com that a worker was badly burned in an explosion at Lhoist North America on Wednesday evening. He’s been airlifted to a hospital.

A coral snake bite has left an Alabama man paralyzed in an intensive care unit. News outlets report Jeffrey Phillips was bitten last week when he mistook the snake his children discovered in their yard for a king snake. He was rushed to Anderson Hospital in Meridian, Mississippi, where antivenin was flown in to save […]

Responding to her primary challengers and questions about her physical condition, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey released a letter from her doctor on Wednesday saying the 73-year-old is in “excellent health.” In the brief letter, Dr. Brian Elrod wrote that he sees “no medical issues that would prevent (Ivey) from fulfilling her obligations as governor.” Elrod […]

In a letter sent to Federal Election Commission acting general counsel Lisa J. Stevenson on the FEC to allow candidates to use campaign funds on childcare. She argued such a move would “break down barriers” that prevent women from running for office and work toward making Congress a body “that reflects the diversity of the […]

Alabama should remove a statue from its Capitol grounds honoring a 19th century doctor who operated on slaves without anesthesia as he sought new ways to treat childbirth complications, a group led by a state lawmaker said Wednesday. The statue, erected in 1939, lauds Dr. J. Marion Sims as the “father of modern gynecology.” However, […]

Lawmakers and political observers say the Business Council of Alabama still has plenty of pull in the state despite some loses in the State House and speculation about the future of the group’s chief executive officer. “I think it’s been effective,” said William Stewart, a political science professor at the University of Alabama who argues […]