Late Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) revealed he would be voting to confirm CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the next secretary of state. Jones joins Democratic colleagues Sens. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) in crossing the aisle to support Pompeo’s nomination.

On Tuesday, writer and English professor Randa Jarrar was informed that Fresno State University would take no disciplinary action against her acrimonious statements celebrating the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush or her other controversial statements. After the passing of Barbara Bush, Jarrar sent out a series of tweets. Perhaps the one that gained […]

On Wednesday, Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) announced he was joining two of his Alabama congressional colleagues and calling for the end of the Trump administration’s tariff on newsprint. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Alabama’s junior U.S. Senator cited the impact the tariff will have on those newspapers’ operations and warned there […]

An Alabama man accused of distributing inappropriate images of an underage girl online is now charged with producing child porn. Twenty-four-year-old Andrew Benjamin Cantley of Auburn was arrested April 16 on unrelated charges. Cantley was charged with possessing child porn following an investigation into inappropriate images of a minor being posted online. Authorities served him […]

As the British courts and the medical staff at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, England, refuse to allow 23-month-old Alfie Evans to be flown to Italy for treatment, which is his parents demand — Italy has granted the suffering child citizenship — the president of Poland spoke out by Twitter, saying that “Alfie Evans must […]

Governor Kay Ivey is leading a small team of Alabama economic development specialists on a business development mission to Japan for high-level meetings with leaders of global automakers Toyota, Mazda and Honda. The Alabama delegation departed for Japan Tuesday and will return on Thursday following appointments in Tokyo. The mission’s strategic goal is to facilitate […]

An American Legion commander in Alabama says racism is at the heart of why he’s been accused of misappropriating $10,000. The first black commander for one Phenix City post was suspended in February from his position as senior vice commander for the state American Legion. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer cites a post complaint that says 62-year-old […]

Brewing beer in a college town known for tailgating, fraternity parties and celebrating national championships may seem like a no-brainer. That’s what concerned Bo Hicks and Elliot Roberts. “We had the idea one day that somebody might start a brewery that didn’t particularly care about the community and just wanted to capitalize on the university […]

In the dark of night, three travelers advanced inexorably toward tragedy. Accompanied by her parents on her first train trip, 11-year-old Andrea Chancey couldn’t sleep despite the steady rocking of the Amtrak coach. Aboard the same train after missing a flight, Ken Ivory lounged nearby. Miles away, Willie C. Odom steered a towboat as it […]

Some people continue to question police actions at an Alabama restaurant where a black woman’s arrest, captured on video, raised questions about mistreatment. Local NAACP branch President David Smith tells WKRG-TV that he believes police accounts indicating Chikesia Clemons may have had alcohol or threatened others are “ancillary” to what happened. The Mobile County branch […]

Evangelical Christian Rev. Franklin Graham called upon President Donald Trump “to do something about” an Army chaplain, who is a Baptist, and who faces “serious punishment” because he refused to allow a lesbian couple to participate in one of his marriage retreats. “Mr. President, I hope you will be able to do something about this,” […]

Police say an Alabama man took money from a church’s collection plate and deposited the funds into an account he controlled. WAFF-TV reported Tuesday that witnesses told police Gary Bradley III, who goes by “Tripp,” went before Mayfair Church of Christ and announced he had been stealing from the offering plate.

Today is National Telephone Day, and America virtually has achieved universal coverage — including in Alabama. According to the latest Census Bureau data, all but about 3 million homes have a landline or a cell phone. That is 2.5 percent of all households. The share of homes in Alabama without phones is slightly — but […]

An Alabama judge is dismissing criminal charges accusing a former jail warden of illegally leaking information to a blogger critical of a sheriff. The Decatur Daily reports that a judge dismissed the charge of computer tampering at the request of former Morgan County jail warden Leon Bradley after several days of testimony.

New polling obtained by Yellowhammer News offers a peek into Alabama’s attorney general race, with the edges in the Republican primary bid at-the-moment being given to current Attorney General Steve Marshall and former Attorney General Troy King. The poll, conducted by WPA Intelligence, found that 24 percent of Republican primary voters have a favorable view […]

The State Department released its Human Rights Report for 2017 on Friday, and State Department officials acknowledged it purposely left out a section on “women’s reproductive rights,” which had been included in previous reports during the Obama administration, noting that the administration does not consider abortion a human right under international law. “When the State […]

Four men accused of trafficking meth in Cullman County, Alabama, have been arrested in a raid. AL.com reports the men are each charged with trafficking methamphetamine, unlawful possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

A commission tasked with investigating government actions surrounding the Florida high school massacre and the state’s other mass shootings is set to hold its first meeting. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission is to meet Tuesday to discuss its mission and how it will conduct its investigation. The 16 members are also […]

Police say the missing 5-year-old boy who was reportedly abducted from a bus stop in Alabama has been found in Mississippi. Sylacauga Police said in a Facebook post Monday that Malachi Quintanilla was taken by a woman possibly related to the boy’s biological father.

Visitors to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice first glimpse them, eerily, in the distance: Brown rectangular slabs, 800 in all, inscribed with the names of more than 4,000 souls who lost their lives in lynchings between 1877 and 1950. Each pillar is 6 feet (2 meters) tall, the height of a person, […]

In late February, Alabama prison inmate Billy Lee Thornton stepped onto his cell bed, put a shoe string around his neck and hung himself from the light fixture, according to an incident report written by a correctional officer who witnessed the incident. The correctional officer, who had been at the door of Thornton’s segregated cell […]

A police officer in Alabama accused of stealing drugs has been fired. Dothan Police Sgt. Jonathan Whaley was arrested April 17 on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and theft of property. Dothan Police Chief Steve Parrish tells the Dothan Eagle that the officer was fired Friday.

A scrap metal processor in Alabama is suing the Birmingham City Council, saying it denied the company a license to operate for political reasons. The council denied the license on March 20, citing health risks to the community. AL.com reports Councilor John Hilliard said then that he believes in economic development but not at the […]

An Alabama man convicted of murder in the 2005 shooting death of a liquor store clerk has had his application for a rehearing denied. Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly told the TimesDaily that he’d been notified of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision in David Riley Jr.’s case.