Bob R. Riley News

Since he quit his post as chairman of the state Democratic Party a month ago, Mark Kennedy has formed a new office, established a website and amassed a growing list of volunteers as he and several other defectors from the traditional party apparatus attempt to build a new organization in a red state where Democrats have lost control of all three ... (more)

For the past several years, she's directed the Alabama Holocaust Commission, a gubernatorial-appointed position that has offered its share of challenges as she works hard to increase public support.

Carlos Kennedy appears in Mobile County District Court for a bail hearing on Friday, Sept.

Bentley's press secretary, Jennifer Ardis, said Davis has accepted a job as executive director of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity.

It has been 27 years since he left the South Carolina Governor's office and 13 years since he was U.S. Secretary of Education.

Danny Hubbard of the Cheaha Trail Riders has received the 2013 National Trails Advocacy Award for the state of Alabama, according to a press release issued by CTR.

Tuesday will be spent on several legislative issues but the main one in the Alabama Senate will be SB 409 introduced by the Bob Riley boy Senator Bryan Taylor.

That's the pace of tax and constitution reform in Alabama, which has needed both for so long that nobody is still living who might remember when it didn't. The latest near-miss involves something Alabama has needed to do for decades: remove the state sales tax on food.

George Jones undoubtedly will be remembered for his legendary hits, like "He Stopped Loving Her Today," but late in life he ventured into Alabama business, gambling and politics.

MONTGOMERY: Former Alabama Governor Bob Riley's Senator, Bryan Taylor, has introduced a third bill concerning gambling in Alabama.

Alabama State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice speaks as hundreds of supporters of the Alabama College and Career Ready Standards gather on the state capitol steps in Montgomery, Ala.

The Alabama Democratic Party has long operated with a heavy debt, but that debt, which party officials say now totals close to $500,000, recently became a point of contention between outgoing Chairman Mark Kennedy and some other top party officials.

The former Alabama attorney general who lost his job after feuding with the governor over electronic bingo has started a business that's selling a new twist on the game.