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Alabama man sentenced in theme park fraud
A man who promised to build a $3.5 billion theme park in northwest Alabama is going to prison for fraud.
A judge in Florence sentenced...
Alabama lawmakers approve execution by nitrogen gas
Alabama lawmakers voted Tuesday to allow the use of nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates, a method that has so far not been used to...
Sessions to address black law enforcement group in Alabama
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be in his home state of Alabama this week to address a black law enforcement group that is...
Alabama governor offering reward for info in 2016 homicide
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is offering $5,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in a 2016 slaying in Dallas County.
WSFA-TV reports on...
Storms strike Alabama college, leave trail of damage across South
With violent weather plowing through the Southeast, the kitchen windows exploded at Richard Brasher's home in eastern Alabama.
Using couch cushions for protection, Brasher hid...
Alabama House committee to debate raising age for rifle purchases
Alabama lawmakers will discuss whether to raise the minimum age to buy an AR-15, or similar rifle, from 18 to 21.
The House Public Safety...
AUDIO: Birmingham radio’s Matt Murphy confronts Alabama GOP AG hopeful Alice Martin over Robert Bentley ‘interview’ contradictions
Tuesday on Talk 99.5's "Matt and Aunie Show," show co-host Matt Murphy and Republican Alabama Attorney General hopeful Alice Martin had a heated back-and-forth...
Alabama votes 98-0 to close loophole in drunk driving law
Stricter regulations will be imposed on drunk drivers after a bill to close a loophole in the law and reduce road deaths passed a...
Middle class workers are bailing on California and making for these red states
Middle-class families are leaving California in droves and heading for red states as rental prices and gas taxes continue sky rocketing in the Golden...
Longtime journalist, Tuscaloosa native and Pulitzer Prize winner Les Payne dies
Longtime New York journalist and Tuscaloosa native Les Payne has died at age 76.
Payne's family confirmed his death to Newsday, where he worked for nearly...
Auburn takes part in urban tree canopy study
Auburn will take part in an urban tree canopy study.
The Opelika-Auburn News reports the city of Auburn and the Green Infrastructure Center entered an...
Alabama Sheriff’s Association director: Jail food allowance reform ‘should have been done 50 years ago’
Reforming what county sheriffs do with unspent jail food allowances should have been accomplished a long time ago, Robert Timmons, Executive Director of the...
Alabama civil asset forfeiture reform calls for transparency
When Opelika police officer Benjamin Carswell pulled over Daryl Gray for following too closely in August 2014, Carswell found $32,660 in the vehicle. Gray...
Severe storms spawn tornadoes, damage homes in Southeast US
Severe storms that spawned tornadoes damaged homes and downed trees as they moved across the Southeast on Monday night.
Forecasters warned that the storms could threaten...
Ivey signs health care contract for prisons
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a contract to provide health care in state prisons.
Ivey's office confirmed Monday that she signed the $360 million contract with...
Storms strike college, leave trail of damage across South
Daybreak Tuesday revealed widespread damage after a night of violent weather in the Deep South, with a college campus shattered by an apparent tornado and thousands...
Sen. Shelby’s ascent to Appropriations chair has Georgians worried over decades-long water war with Alabama, Florida
With Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) departure from the U.S. Senate on April 1, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) is set to become the next chairman...
10 million southerners remain under storm threat
The Latest on storms and damage across the Southeast (all times local):
8 a.m.
Forecasters say a storm system that battered Alabama and Georgia will threaten...
Karrie Webb gets US Women’s Open spot at Alabama
Two-time champion Karrie Webb has received a special exemption to the U.S. Women's Open at Shoal Creek in Alabama.
Webb won consecutive U.S. Women's Open...
Prosecutors: Alabama man made plan to kidnap woman, daughter
Prosecutors say an Alabama man who planned to hire someone to kidnap a woman and her 14-year-old daughter has pleaded guilty to child sex-trafficking...
Alabama governor: Significant damage in areas
The governor of Alabama says there has been significant damage in parts of Alabama.
Gov. Kay Ivey said state resources were being sent to the...
VIDEO: Attacked from right in Alabama, Rep. Martha Roby called conservative in D.C.
At home, Rep. Martha Roby (R-Montgomery) is preparing for a primary in which she faces allegations that she is insufficiently conservative. In Washington last...
Severe storms spawn tornadoes, damage homes in Southeast US
Severe storms that spawned tornadoes damaged homes and downed trees as they moved across the Southeast on Monday night.
Forecasters warned that the storms could threaten more...
Students: 1 million expected at anti-gun-violence marches
Students from the Florida high school where 17 people were fatally shot last month expect more than 1 million participants in upcoming marches in...