An Albertville lawyer and former part-time municipal judge was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison for child pornography. A statement from the U.S. Department of Justice Thursday said a federal judge sentenced 54-year-old Steven Vincent Smith a day earlier to 17½ years in jail and 10 years of supervised release after he serves his […]

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s Republican primary challengers took aim Thursday night at her decision to skip a televised debate. Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, state Sen. Bill Hightower and evangelist Scott Dawson criticized Ivey’s decision to not attend the Thursday debate hosted by WVTM-13 in Birmingham. Ivey was also in Birmingham Thursday night but was throwing […]

Alabama high school officials are implementing instant replay for football games next season. The Alabama High School Athletic Association said Thursday it will partner with Pittsburgh-based DVSport and be the first to allow replay statewide for the entire season. Minnesota used replay reviews in semifinal and championship games last season and New Jersey plans to […]

Jason Robert Brown is Broadway royalty. The winner of three Tony Awards, the composer and orchestrator’s shows have included “Parade,” “Honeymoon in Vegas,” “Songs for a New World,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” “Urban Cowboy” and “The Last Five Years.” (The last one was adapted into a feature film starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan in 2014). […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized Wednesday during his second day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees for the censoring of Catholic content. Zuckerberg admitted in response to questioning from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington that Facebook “made a mistake” when it censored an advertisement for a theology degree at Franciscan University […]

Look up at the sky tonight. Every star you see — plus hundreds of thousands, even millions more — will come under the intense stare of NASA’s newest planet hunter. Set to lift off early next week, the Tess spacecraft will prowl for planets around the closest, brightest stars. These newfound worlds eventually will become […]

Players from the 2017 NCAA National Champion Alabama Crimson Tide football team joined President Donald Trump in prayer on Tuesday. After the team’s visit to the White House celebrating their championship title, punter J.K. Scott asked President Trump if he would join the players in a prayer for the president and his staff.

An Alabama youth evangelist was arrested this week on child sex charges and has issued a statement saying the allegations are false. Media outlets report that police in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover arrested Paul Edward Acton Bowen, 37, of Southside, near Gadsden, on multiple charges involving a boy between the ages of 12 and […]

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey remains one of the nation’s most popular governors, and new Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) fares better than his predecessor, according to a new poll released Thursday. The survey by Morning Consult included interviews with 275,000 registered voters in all 50 states from Jan. 1 through the end of March. The […]

Uber will start doing annual criminal background checks on U.S. drivers and hire a company that constantly monitors criminal arrests as it tries to do a better job of keeping riders safe. The move announced Thursday is one of several actions taken by the ride-hailing company under new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi (Cause-row-SHA-hee). He says the […]

Four Mississippi university students are accused of breaking into the University of Alabama’s athletic facility and stealing memorabilia. Authorities say the break-in happened during the pre-dawn hours of April 4, six days before Alabama’s national championship football team met with President Donald Trump at the White House. Court records say the four got inside the […]

The leading Democratic contenders for governor spent much — but not all — of a Wednesday night debate agreeing with each other. Former Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox and former state legislator James Fields appeared in the debate hosted by WVTM in Birmingham. All three expressed support for a state […]

An Alabama city’s only air medical transport service will end operations as the helicopter’s provider opted not to renew the contract. The Tuscaloosa News reports that the Tuscaloosa-based NorthFlight will cease operating Monday, after more than four years of transporting roughly 1,000 critically injured patients by helicopter. The service was a partnership between NorthStar EMS, […]

Internet giant Google this week officially launched construction of a $600 million data center in Alabama with a groundbreaking ceremony at the site in Jackson County. The project will create as many as 100 full-time jobs and create massive economic ripples. Google said the data center in Bridgeport will be a hub for Internet traffic, […]

An Alabama community college has been awarded a $1.5 million federal grant for its planned automotive technology training center in Decatur-annexed Limestone County. Decatur Daily reports the grant was announced Wednesday for the Calhoun Community College’s center, which is expected to cost more than $7 million. Calhoun officials said in September that they had already […]

A capital murder charge against the Rev. Al Sharpton’s half brother will be forwarded to an Alabama grand jury. The Dothan Eagle reported Tuesday that a judge concluded there’s enough evidence to move the case against the Rev. Kenneth Glasgow forward. Glasgow is accused of driving 26-year-old Jamie Townes around to look for a stolen […]

Guard Bryce Brown has joined a list of Auburn players considering entering the NBA draft. The first-team All-Southeastern Conference performer announced his decision to go through the evaluation process Wednesday, but says he’s not planning to hire an agent. He has until June 11 to withdraw from the draft.

Attorneys for the state of Alabama and one of its few abortion clinics faced off before federal judges Tuesday, debating the state’s effort to reinstate a law that let judges put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like process. The state’s legislators in 2014 changed the process for minors to get abortions through a court order […]

Mountain Brook High School’s Trendon Watford and Lee-Montgomery’s Zippy Broughton are the state’s basketball players of the year. Watford was named Mr. Basketball Tuesday by the Alabama Sports Writers Association. Broughton is the state’s Miss Basketball. Watford is one of the nation’s top junior prospects, ranked ninth in the Class of 2019 by 247Sports. He […]

As thousands of National Guard troops deploy to the Mexico border, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to bring his firm stance on immigration enforcement to New Mexico where a group of Southwest border sheriffs are meeting Wednesday. Sessions will speak in Las Cruces at the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition Annual Spring Meeting with the […]

Police say a deadly crash involving a large truck led to an explosion on an interstate in eastern Alabama, and authorities were telling motorists to avoid that stretch of roadway since lanes were blocked. Heflin Police Chief A.J. Benefield said in a statement on social media that the wreck happened around 2 a.m. Wednesday on […]

Over the last few weeks, several smaller Alabama newspapers have cried foul over President Donald Trump’s tariff on Canadian newsprint, which will significantly raise their costs. According to Jackson County Sentinel editor Brandon Cox, newsprint, which is sold in increments of tons, will increase from $600 per ton to nearly $800 per ton, and that could […]

Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is countersuing a woman who said he sexually touched her when she was 14 and he was 32. Attorneys for Moore filed the defamation counterclaim Monday against Leigh Corfman — who has an ongoing defamation lawsuit against Moore — denying the accusations of misconduct raised by Corfman in an […]

The body of the last of three missing fishermen has been found in Alabama, following a five-day search. Henry County Sheriff Will Maddox tells The Dothan Eagle that searchers located 51-year-old Keith Price, of Headland, near Thomas Mill Creek on Monday morning.