Now formally facing the death penalty, the suspect in the Valentine’s Day school shooting that killed 17 people in Florida is headed for a court appearance Wednesdayon a 34-count indictment. An arraignment hearing is set for 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, whose attorneys say he will plead guilty to all charges if the death penalty is not pursued […]

From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month’s massacre of 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students from the elementary to college level are […]

At least nine people remain hospitalized following the crash of a charter bus carrying members of a high school band from Texas. A spokeswoman for Infirmary Health in Mobile, Alabama, says four people were listed in stable condition in two of the company’s hospitals early Wednesday.

Authorities say an Alabama woman forced her way into her estranged husband’s home, shot him and pistol-whipped a woman who was present. Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry says Lee Ann Matanane shot the 59-year-old man in the chest on Saturday. AL.com reports court records show the unidentified man has thrice been arrested on domestic-violence harassment and […]

Alabama State Rep. Will Ainsworth, a Republican lawmaker from Guntersville, recently appeared on the Jesse Lee Peterson Show to promote his legislation to allow trained teachers to carry firearms on school grounds. Watch the video here: (Image: State Rep. Will Ainsworth on the Jesse Lee Peterson Show – J.L. Peterson/Youtube) Sign-up for our daily newsletter here […]

After fatal shootings in Florida and Birmingham schools, the Alabama House of Representatives voted Tuesday to reinstate a school safety task force. Rep. Terri Collins, a Republican who chaired the original task force in 2016, introduced the initiative to create an annual force with law enforcement, educators, law enforcement and mental health professionals. Democratic lawmakers questioned whether […]

Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday approved an $85 million increase for the state’s prison system as they try to comply with a federal court order to improve mental health care for inmates. The House of Representatives approved $30 million for the Department of Corrections before September and a $55 million boost in next year’s general fund budget. Nearly […]

Alabama lawmakers will hold public hearings on proposals to allow some teachers to carry concealed handguns into their schools The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee will hold a Wednesday hearing on the bill by Republican Rep. Will Ainsworth. It would allow public school teachers and administrators, after undergoing police training, to carry a pistol on […]

Auto supplier MöllerTech has completed work on a $46.3 million Alabama manufacturing facility that will create 222 jobs and serve as a flagship plant for a company with operations around the world. Top MöllerTech executives joined state and local leaders for a grand opening ceremony today at the new 150,000-square-foot facility in the Woodstock community’s Scott […]

The director of the state Ethics Commission said a bill before Alabama lawmakers could open up a potentially wide loophole in state ethics law by carving out an exemption for people doing economic development work. “I think it’s a bad bill that weakens the ethics law considerably,” Alabama Ethics Commission Executive Director Tom Albritton said.

The Alabama Department of Education is planning top personnel cuts. Al.com reports that state interim Superintendent Dr. Ed Richardson told board of education members that reducing the number of employees, known as exempt or at-will, is necessary. During a work session this week, he said “hard decisions” will need to be made.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records show that in past two years, the company that owns the bus the crashed in Alabama has been involved in four other crashes, with one of those also involving a fatality. No one was injured or killed in the other three crashes involving First Class Tours Inc. The agency’s […]

Glenwood, Inc., a non-profit serving people with autism and other mental health concerns, just got three new “Hope Cottages” on its 363-acre Birmingham campus to house 16 residents who have autism.

The latest on the crash of a tour bus that was returning to Texas from Disney World (all times local): 1:50 p.m. A bus carrying Texas students whose bandmates were involved in the wreck of another bus on Interstate 10 in Alabama has returned to a Houston-area high school. The bus pulled into Channelview High […]

A bus carrying Texas high school band members home from Disney World plunged into a ravine before dawn Tuesday in Alabama, killing one person and injuring many others. First responders used ropes to rappel down the 50-foot ravine in the middle of Interstate 10 to reach them, and then had to cut some of the victims free […]

The aunt of a 17-year-old killed by a fellow student at an Alabama high school last week is calling for school safety reform and action against gun violence. “We’ve all failed our children. We’ve failed to keep them safe,” Shenise Abercrombie, the aunt of victim Courtlin Arrington, told The Associated Press on Monday. “There needs to […]

Alabama’s efforts to create a $60 million “roll-on, roll-off” facility at the Port of Mobile to serve the state’s growing automobile industry took two big steps forward during the past few days after nearly 70 percent of its costs were funded through enormous coastal and federal grants. The money: — $28.8 million was received from […]

A charter bus carrying high school band members home to Texas from Disney World plunged into an Alabama ravine early Tuesday, and numerous children were being carried by helicopters to emergency rooms. Al.com reported that injuries range from minor to critical, and that at least one critically injured passenger was taken to the University of South […]

An operation sending train loads of partially treated sewage material to an Alabama landfill has been halted. AL.com reported Monday that six wastewater treatment plants from New York City and one from New Jersey had been sending their solid material left over from treatment processes to the Big Sky Environmental, LLC landfill in Adamsville for more than […]

An Alabama city says its effort to trap coyotes is humane amid criticism from an animal rights group. Vestavia Hills City Manager Jeff Downes tells AL.com the three-week pilot program captured 13 coyotes by Monday morning and the traps used are not lethal. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says initiatives like the city’s are lethal […]

Four Deep South states are getting nearly $6 million to preserve sites and highlight stories related to the African-American struggle for equality in the 20th century. The Interior Department says Alabama is getting $2.3 million for nine projects, Mississippi is getting $1.3 million for four projects, and Louisiana and Georgia will each get about $1 […]

A middle school band director in the Dothan City School system faces a charge related to the alleged solicitation of a sex act with a student. The Dothan Eagle reports Phillip Burns, of Dothan, was arrested Friday on one misdemeanor count of school employee soliciting a sex act with a student under the age of 19. Dothan […]

During a speech Monday to the Huntsville-Madison County Chamber of Commerce, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) declared that Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) being elected to the U.S. Senate last December “was a major loss to our country.” “From our perspective, that was a major loss to our country,” Brooks said to attendees as recorded by […]

Lawyers on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the upcoming execution of an Alabama inmate who they say was mentally ill when he moved to fire his lawyers and drop his appeals. Michael Eggers is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 2000 choking death of Bennie Francis Murray, his boss at a traveling carnival concession business. […]