After all the attention being directed towards school shootings, legislators are under pressure to “do something.” State Senator Trip Pittman’s attempt is … something. The Baldwin County Republican proposed, and passed out of the judiciary committee, a bill that would “allow an individual to restrict his or her firearm purchase ability by voluntarily adding his or […]

An Alabama man accused of severely beating a Georgia man in a dispute over a handicapped parking spot has been charged with aggravated battery. Morris Ellis was extradited to Winder, Georgia, on Tuesday after he was arrested in his hometown of Vestavia Hills, Alabama.

Police in Alabama would have to collect data on traffic stops to prevent racial profiling, under a bill endorsed Wednesday by a committee in the state House. The bill by state Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Birmingham Democrat, would require officers to record the race of a person pulled over in a traffic stop. Police would submit data […]

The Alabama Crimson Tide football team is travelling – yet again – to the White House to celebrate another national championship victory. President Donald Trump will host Coach Nick Saban and the team at the White House on April 10, according to a source familiar with the plans. The president attended the national championship game […]

A man who once claimed he helped bury the remains of a missing Alabama girl in Aruba has died after police say he was stabbed during a foiled kidnapping in Florida. The Tampa Bay Times reports 32-year-old John Christopher Ludwick tried to kidnap a woman Wednesday as she exited her driveway in North Port.

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A bill that would help the expansion of rural broadband in Alabama passed a House committee Wednesday, but a big change in the legislation could affect the pocketbooks of state taxpayers. The Alabama Rural Broadband Act, sponsored by Sen. Clay Scofield (R-Guntersville), passed by unanimous voice vote in the House Education Committee after breezing through […]

An Alabama sheriff legally used more than $750,000 of funds meant to feed inmates to purchase a beach house. Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin told The Birmingham News he follows a state law passed before World War II that allows sheriffs to keep “excess” inmate-feeding funds for themselves. Entrekin reported on state ethics forms that […]

The estate of “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee has filed suit over an upcoming Broadway adaptation of the novel, arguing that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s script wrongly alters Atticus Finch and other characters from the book. The suit, which includes a copy of a contract signed by Lee and dated about eight months before […]

Last weekend, Hillary Clinton spoke in India. There, she continued to struggle publicly with the most humiliating experience of her life, not her husband’s continual sexual misconduct or her State Department’s mishandling of Benghazi but her loss of the presidency to a reality television show host. Hillary’s not over it. And she never will be. […]

Marion County Public Fishing Lake will reopen on March 17, 2018, under the operation of new lake manager Barbara Goggans. The lake had been temporarily closed during the transition of operations to the new lake manager. The lake is located 6 miles north of Guin, Ala., off US Highway 43. In addition to a valid fishing […]

Autopsy results on a bus driver who died while taking a high school band from Florida to Texas may help show why the vehicle careened wildly across a highway before plunging down a steep embankment, police said Wednesday. The driver, 65-year-old Harry Caligone, was the only person killed in the crash, and a medical examiner’s report […]

1. The most absurd attempt to “do something” on guns is this bill proposed in the Alabama State Senate — Senate Bill 376 passed out of the judiciary committee, it allows a person to add themselves to a “do not sell” list. — No one is going to actually do this, this bill does absolutely nothing […]

A man convicted of killing his employer is set to be executed by the state of Alabama after dropping his appeals and asking to be put to death. Fifty-year-old Michael Wayne Eggers is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at a southwest Alabama prison.

Guns — and school safety — took center stage in Montgomery Wednesday on a day when a shooting coincidentally took place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital Highlands. A legislative committee also voted in favor of a bill aimed at chipping away at racial profiling by police. Here is a summary of the […]

One man is dead and another is in critical condition after a gunman opened fire at an Alabama hospital before fatally shooting himself, police said. Birmingham police Lt. Peter Williston said Wednesday police were called to UAB Highlands Hospital 6:55 p.m. Officers found two victims along with the gunman who had died of a self-inflicted gunshot, Williston said.

In a recorded statement posted on Mobile Fox affiliate WALA’s Bob Grip’s Twitter account on Wednesday, Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) urged students participating in the school walkout earlier in the day to stay in the classroom. According to Byrne, when students participate in walkouts, it allows those that engage in these violent acts to win. […]

A proposal to allow trained teachers to carry guns in Alabama schools drew both support and criticism in a legislative hearing. The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee held a Wednesday hearing on the legislation, one of a number of gun-related bills introduced in the wake of the fatal shooting of 17 people at a Florida […]

In three years as chairwoman of the Alabama Republican Party, Terry Lathan has presided over a party that dominates state politics. Under her supervision in 2016, the party delivered a landslide victory for President Donald Trump in the Heart of Dixie.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says she’s talked with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott about the crash of a Texas-bound charter bus carrying a high school band. Ivey says she told Abbott her office will do whatever it can to assist, particularly those from Channelview High School near Houston.

In a recent interview on London’s “This Morning,” Actress Letitia Wright, best known for her breakout role in the latest Marvel film “Black Panther,” detailed how she left her acting career to pursue God, later returning to the acting scene after she became a Christian. “It gave me so much love and light within myself,” […]

Students across the nation walked out of class for 17 minutes today – one minute for each victim in the recent school shooting in Florida – demanding that Congress pass gun control legislation. The protest was organized by the youth branch of the Women’s March, which claimed that students were calling for universal background checks, […]

Charges will not be filed in the shooting death of an 11-month-old boy in Alabama. Mobile police spokeswoman Charlette Solis tells AL.com the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office determined there were no elements of probable cause to prompt criminal charges after the boy was shot Monday by his 2-year-old brother.

We all remember the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series, the children’s books where you get to decide the path your character takes and experience the consequences of your decision. Republicans across the country have decided to continue making bad decision after bad decision, ignoring the evidence in front of them, and turn their pages to […]