On Tuesday, the Alabama Policy Institute held its 19th annual Mobile dinner event in the airplane hangar at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. “I cannot think of a better place to discuss freedom and liberty than at the U.S.S. Battleship Memorial Park and Aircraft Pavilion, a place that holds so many reminders of the […]

Vernon Madison has spent decades on Alabama’s death row. Now 67, Madison has suffered from strokes and dementia and his lawyers say he no longer recalls the crime that put him there: the 1985 killing of a police officer. His speech is slurred, he suffers from confusion, and once thought he was near release and […]

A Georgia boy who was 15 when he walked out of his high school and disappeared two years ago has been found, and a sheriff says “all indications” are that he’s been “happy and thriving.” The sheriff says Aubrey Jayce Carroll, now 17, has been living under an alias as a barterer, using only cash […]

States on the Gulf of Mexico can set recreational seasons this year and next for red snapper, a popular catch that’s still recovering from nearly disastrous overfishing, the federal government said. The experimental permits will let Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Texas track the catch, with each state closing its season when it reaches its […]

A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet — and the “poop train” is just the latest example of the South being used as a dumping ground for other states’ waste. In Parrish, Alabama, population 982, the sludge-hauling […]

Retired Roman Catholic Bishop David E. Foley has died in Birmingham. A statement posted on Facebook by the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham says Foley died Tuesday night at the church home where he was living. He was 88. Foley was the third bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, serving from 1994 until his retirement […]

The producer of the Broadway production of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” has filed a countersuit against the executor of the late author’s estate which challenged screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Scott Rudin’s production company, Rudinplay, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan on Monday demanding $10 million from Lee’s estate for […]

Hyundai Power Transformers has announced a $33 million expansion of an Alabama facility with plans to hire more than 80 workers. News outlets reported Tuesday that Hyundai Power Transformers USA Inc. will begin the expansion of its Montgomery facility in July, which is expected to create 86 jobs. Company officials said in a statement that […]

An Alabama legislator and a lobbyist who once chaired the Alabama Republican Party are scheduled to appear in federal court on conspiracy charges. State Republican Rep. Jack D. Williams of Vestavia Hills and lobbyist Marty Connors are scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Montgomery. The two were arrested this month, along […]

When Deidre Downs was crowned Miss America more than a decade ago, the idea of legalized gay marriage and Miss America later marrying her same-sex partner in Alabama would have been an unimaginable future. Times have changed. Former Miss Alabama 2004 and Miss America 2005 Deidre Downs Gunn married her girlfriend, attorney Abbott Jones, in […]

The city of Birmingham and the state of Alabama are awaiting a decision on whether a box-like structure around a 52-foot-tall Confederate monument violates state law. Lawyers argued in court hearing last week over the whether it violates a new state law prohibiting the removal and alteration of monuments more than 40 years old. The […]

May 2016 will be a time that Jan Walker will never forget. Walker, a retired administrative assistant to the superintendent of Boaz City Schools, was getting ready for her regular doctor visit and noticed a lump on her neck. Her primary care physician examined it and determined it was a simple swollen lymph node. Two months […]

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey aired a campaign ad Tuesday praising a law she signed that prohibits taking down Confederate monuments. In the 30-second ad, the camera pans around a Confederate memorial outside the state capitol building. Ivey says that when “special interests” wanted to tear down monuments, she signed a law to protect them because […]

Authorities say they’ve filed new charges against an Alabama youth evangelist accused of sexually abusing children. Sheriff’s officials say 37-year-old preacher Paul Edmond Acton Bowen of Southside is accused of abusing four juveniles between the ages of 12 and 17 for years. He’s charged with felony sodomy and enticing a child for immoral purposes, plus […]

More American voters want the Republican party to remain in charge of the economy and tax policy, according to an NBC News/WSJ poll released Monday evening. The two media outlets found that 35 percent of Americans believe the Republican party is better suited to handle the economy, compared with 28 percent who think Democrats have the better […]

Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield is leading a team of state business leaders on a trade mission in South America this week, aiming to forge new relationships and find new markets for their goods and services. The mission to Argentina and Ecuador features a wide variety of the state’s business interests, with representatives from the […]

A new report by the Media Research Center (MRC) documents how the major social media sites — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube — and the Google search engine suppress conservative speech in a “clear effort to censor the conservative worldview from the public conversation.” When asked about this censorship by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on April 10, […]

A special-needs student had a one-of-a-kind prom date when an NFL player returned to his home county in Alabama to take her to the dance. Don Jones is a 27-year-old defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers who is from Lawrence County. He tells WBRC-TV it was a “blessing” to go to the prom Friday […]

Historic but not pretentious – that might be how you could describe Sheffield, one of the four municipalities that make up Northwest Alabama’s Quad Cities. It’s a Wednesday in mid-April. I had scheduled a sit-down interview with Sheffield’s Mayor Ian Sanford to talk about the resurgence of his city’s downtown. What I ended up getting […]

The city of Birmingham maintains it did not violate state law when it put a box-like structure around a 52-foot-tall Confederate monument. In a Monday court filing, the city disputed the state’s claims that it violated a law prohibiting the removal and alteration of monuments more than 40 years old.

A convicted package bomber has asked a court to block his scheduled execution this week, arguing that Alabama has no right to carry out the death penalty while he is also serving a federal sentence. Walter Leroy Moody, Jr., is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Thursday for the bombing death of […]

Auburn University students who developed a personalized electrotherapy garment to aid injury rehabilitation earned $50,000 in funding and services as winners of the fourth annual Tiger Cage student business pitch competition. Presented by Auburn University’s Harbert College of Business, Tiger Cage identifies and rewards the best early-stage products, services and business concepts that emerge from Auburn students. ESCAPE Therapy […]

An Alabama city council is considering limiting the number of dogs allowed in a residential home to three. Northport City Attorney Ron Davis tells The Tuscaloosa News that city code already bans keeping more than three dogs in an enclosure that’s less than 50 feet (15 meters) from another residence. But he says residents have […]

Authorities in Alabama are investigating after a dead man was found in a vehicle in a police department’s parking lot. A Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office news release says deputies were called to the Midfield Police Department to investigate the report of a deceased person in the car in the parking lot Friday. News outlets report […]