Alabama News

The mayor of a south Alabama city and most council members have been re-elected to their posts in a vote that was delayed by almost a year.

The leaders of two Alabama private school organizations don't expect many new students to apply in the wake of a law providing tax credits for students transferring from failing public schools.

The roadblocks went up on a Friday at several points in two Alabama towns, about 40 miles on either side of Birmingham.

LATAM Airlines Group, the holding company for LAN and TAM Airlines, took delivery of its 200th Airbus A320 aircraft at Le Bourget Paris Air Show.

The "failing" schools list under the newly-passed Alabama Accountability Act has been released.

The comedian Bob Saget, obviously buzzed, busting into the press trailer ; Gov't Mule singer/guitarist Warren Haynes singing a snippet from his song "Soulshine" when a fan expressed sadness to him that the band hadn't performed the tune during their Sunday set; and throwback-country singer Dwight Yoakam wearing the tightest jeans I've ever seen on ... (more)

A Mississippi woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing an Alabama woman by giving silicone injections as a buttocks enhancement.

Last Wednesday morning, Ben Kitoko had no idea what 'biodiversity' meant. He didn't have any special interest in science, and liked the environment but didn't know exactly why.

For 50 years, Peggy Wallace Kennedy has lived in the shadow cast by her father, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, when he stood in a doorway and tried to stop two black students from integrating the University of Alabama.

We extend our best wishes for success to Miss Alabama, Chandler Champion, as she prepares to represent our state this September in the Miss America pageant.

Alabama authorities are looking for a missing infant and a teen-aged girl who may be linked to his alleged abduction.

State Superintendent Tommy Bice discusses the Alabama schools listed as failing according to the Alabama Accountability Act and the options students at those schools have Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at the Gordon Persons Building in Montgomery, Ala.

The man convicted in the brutal 1974 killing of a Huntsville college freshman will remain in prison for at least another five years.

Republican leaders from 10 Southern states are meeting in Alabama to plan strategies for making new GOP inroads across the region.

An investigation is underway into an accident that has left three people from Southwest Alabama dead.

Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange's first trip to the Paris Air Show could have gotten off to a better start.

If Alabama's past was a shaded, country road, it would be littered with the detritus of its use of inmate labor.

Strong winds from an afternoon thunderstorm ripped a 40 foot section off of the roof of Springville Middle School and toppled trees onto a home across the street.

Alabama State Troopers say 25-year-old Patrick Hunt Drury of Meridian, Miss., and 25-year-old Christopher McArthur of Toomsuba, Miss., were killed early Sunday near York in Sumter County.

In the latest round of an immigration debate pitting state vs. federal powers, the court in a 7-2 decision declared that Arizona’s law went too far.