A program that provides temporary financial assistance to some of Alabama's poorest families and another that has helped parents collect millions of dollars in unpaid child support could be eliminated if the Legislature...More >>
A federal judge has ruled that BP PLC and one of its minority partners in the blown-out Macondo well are liable for civil penalties under the Clean Water Act for their roles in the nation's worst offshore oil spill.More >>
One of the defense attorneys in Alabama's gambling corruption trial sought to discredit one of the key witnesses with the predominantly black jury.More >>
A pair of state Senate proposals aimed at getting Congress to pass balanced budget legislation has cleared a committee and may be headed for a full vote.More >>
The parents of an Alabama professor accused of shooting three of her colleagues to death in 2010 say she didn't deliberately kill her brother in Massachusetts in 1986. The testimony of Amy Bishop's parents came...More >>
Inmates who want to check on their Facebook friends or send a quick tweet may be out of luck if a proposed bill is approved by the Alabama Legislature.More >>
Country Crossing casino developer Ronnie Gilley says indicted state Sen. Harri Anne Smith was his best recruiter for votes for pro-gambling legislation and she frequently sought bribes for other legislators.More >>
Authorities say they've charged a grandmother and stepmother in the death of a 9-year-old Alabama girl who died after being forced to run as punishment.More >>
One ticket matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number to collect $1.5 million in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday.More >>
Country Crossing developer Ronnie Gilley is returning to the witness stand for a fifth day of testimony in the gambling corruption trial in Montgomery.More >>
Auburn is now 4-9 in SEC play after losing 63-47 on Tuesday night to No. 12 Florida. Adrian Forbes led Auburn with 11 points. Leading scorer Frankie Sullivan finished with six points on 2-of-10 shooting.More >>
The Alabama Senate has passed a bill that would stop convicted public officials and public employees from receiving taxpayer-funded pension benefits.More >>
Democratic leaders in the Alabama Legislature are sponsoring a bill to guarantee that full tuition be paid for all current participants in Alabama's Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program.More >>
Leaders of the nation's largest Protestant denomination have endorsed an optional alternative name for the Southern Baptist Convention: Great Commission Baptists.More >>
A witness in the murder trial of an Alabama man accused of murdering his bride says an Australian diving firm violated its own rules in preparing the woman to go on a fatal scuba trip during her honeymoon.More >>
A Louisiana woman who was a cook on the BP PLC-leased drilling rig that was rocked by a deadly explosion in 2010 has settled her personal-injury claims against the oil giant and other companies involved in the disaster.More >>
U.S. Air Force investigators say extreme fogging in the cockpit caused a fighter plane to leave the runway at a Wisconsin airport after it landed.More >>
Alabama state health officials are investigating several cases of hand, foot and mouth disease, a contagious viral illness which has struck the state more severely than normal this year.More >>
By BOB JOHNSON Associated Press A bill to ban drivers from sending or reading text messages while operating a motor vehicle is expected to come up for debate shortly after the House comes into session...More >>
Rocker Bret Michaels and Grammy-winning singer Cyndi Lauper were expected to usher in Mardi Gras with musical performances in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday during a glitzy ball following the Orpheus parade.More >>
The judge in the case of a man accused of poisoning the Toomer's Corner oak trees at Auburn University will not step down over concerns about his impartiality.More >>
A Huntsville man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to a Christmas Day 2007 shooting that left one man dead inside a convenience store.More >>
A Dothan man is hoping to raise $250,000 to build a permanent skate park in Westgate Park as a memorial to his son, Jennings, a skating enthusiast who was killed in a car wreck two years ago.More >>
Carnival in New Orleans is building toward the out-of-control crescendo of Fat Tuesday. But Barry Kern and his team of float-builders and artists are already planning for next year's party.More >>
The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $7 million after no one matched all six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Sunday.More >>
The woman who served 12 years as Huntsville's mayor says she's making plans for a comeback race against Mayor Tommy Battle, who ousted her in the last citywide election.More >>
A federal jury has returned a verdict awarding more than $1 million to three women who say they were racially and sexually harassed by a female administrator at Alabama State University.More >>
No tickets matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number, so the jackpot rolled over to an estimated $1.5 million in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Saturday.More >>
By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer It's not as glitzy as New Orleans, but it's not as frenzied either, and the throws are generous and more varied.More >>
Legislation aimed at helping people who make their living harvesting shrimp and oysters from coastal waters has been approved by a Senate committee.More >>
The commissioner of Alabama's Department of Mental Health failed to show up for a scheduled meeting about her proposal to shutter all but two of the state's mental health facilities.More >>
A state appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of Devin Darnell Thompson who had claimed he killed three Fayette police employees partly because of repeated play of the video game "Grand Theft Auto."More >>
An Alabama senator has introduced a bill he hopes will resolve the question of whether students can give gifts to their teachers under Alabama's ethics law.More >>
A minority partner in BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has agreed to pay $90 million in a settlement with the federal government and Gulf states to resolve allegations the company violated the Clean Water Act.More >>
A doctor says an Alabama woman had a heart condition that was diagnosed and fixed two years before she drowned during a honeymoon diving trip in Australia.More >>
Police say two men were shot in the leg during a New Orleans parade that's part of the run-up to Mardi Gras, and a 16-year-old boy was arrested.More >>
Millions of people worldwide are held in modern slavery and sex trafficking, and experts say that's more than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.More >>
Most people think of New Orleans when they hear the words "Mardi Gras." But the Southern tradition is celebrated in plenty of other places along the Gulf Coast.More >>
By The Associated Press Votes Thursday as the Alabama, on a 65-22 vote, approved a proposed constitutional amendment to allow business to use some employee withholdings for expansion or new construction....More >>
Motorists going over the speed limit on interstate highways would have to watch out for local police if a bill passed by the Alabama Senate on Thursday becomes law.More >>
It will be up to Alabama voters to decide in November whether to let certain businesses use income tax withholdings from employees for expansion or new construction.More >>
State officials and Alabama residents learned a lesson last spring - just because your state has been hit by a series of devastating tornadoes killing about 250 people doesn't mean everybody will feel sorry for you.More >>
An Alabama judge is scolding lawyers in the trial of a man charged with murder in the drowning death of his wife during their honeymoon in Australia.More >>
The jackpot in the Florida Lotto game has grown to $6 million after no one matched all six winning numbers in the latest drawing, lottery officials said Thursday.More >>
Proposed legislation to ban people from sending or receiving text messages while driving is in line to come up for debate on the Alabama House floor.More >>
Alabama's attorney general has announced that two former state Public Safety Department workers have been indicted on charges of felony theft and ethics violations.More >>
An Alabama Senate Committee has approved proposed legislation that increases the fine for cockfighting from $50 to a $6,000 and as much as a year in jail.More >>
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says her department has delayed the expansion of a program to identify illegal immigrants in local jails to part of Alabama because of an ongoing lawsuit challenging the...More >>
The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to flood.More >>
No tickets matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number, so the jackpot rolled over to an estimated $1.2 million in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday.More >>
The Sierra Club and other members of the 12 Miles South Coalition say Mississippi is rushing toward drilling in state waters without addressing concerns about tourism, the environment or economics.More >>
The owners of a cargo ship that struck and collapsed part of a western Kentucky bridge say they were not responsible for a nighttime collision that took out part of the span because some of the bridge's lights were not...More >>
Prosecutors in Alabama's gambling corruption trial say their next witnesses will be former state Sen. Steve French, state Ethics Commission Executive Director Jim Sumner and Country Crossing casino developer Ronnie...More >>
NASA in Huntsville is soliciting research proposals from contractors to help reduce the risks associated with its new heavy lift rocket boosters.More >>
The Alabama House has passed a bill that was a key component of a package of legislation supported by Republican legislative leaders and by Gov. Robert Bentley to lure new jobs to Alabama and to retain existing jobs.More >>
A federal magistrate has appointed a doctor to examine a BP PLC employee who claims medical problems prevent him from being questioned under oath about the deadly 2010 rig explosion that spawned the nation's worst...More >>
The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory has honored former longtime marine fisheries scientist Tom McIlwain with an endowed chair in the Department of Coastal Sciences.More >>
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has proposed a once-a-year sales tax holiday on weather radios, flashlights, generators and other supplies needed to help prepare for weather disasters.More >>
A former Loudoun County deputy is being sued after a patrol car camera appears to show him sprinting to knock out an unsuspecting arrestee with a blow to the back of the head.More >>
A Houston County sheriff's deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave as authorities continue to investigate the death of a 43-year-old Georgia man who was handcuffed following a bar fight in Dothan.More >>
A federal report details plans for a possible new interstate highway that would move traffic from Augusta through central Georgia and Alabama to Natchez, Miss.More >>
A casino lobbyist who admitted offering bribes for votes is scheduled to testify for a third day in Alabama's gambling corruption trial in Montgomery.More >>
President Barack Obama's spending plan for 2013 seeks $150 million for research and development of a southern Ohio plant that would provide enriched uranium for generating electricity at nuclear power plants.More >>
Alabama has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling that supported metro Atlanta's right to take water from a disputed reservoir that serves as the main water source for roughly 3 million people.More >>
A judge has dismissed all of the federal court claims against a BP PLC contractor sued over the deadly rig explosion and massive oil spill it spawned in the Gulf of Mexico.More >>
Mignon Comer Smith, heiress to the Avondale Mills' estate and founder of the largest private foundation for college scholarships in Alabama, has died of an apparent heart attack in Washington D.C.More >>
Federal and state officials have opened a disaster assistance center in Perry County to assist residents and business owners who were affected by storms and tornadoes that hit Alabama Jan. 22-23.More >>
The Tennessee Valley Authority says an electrical malfunction at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant damaged some equipment, but did not affect operations.More >>
An Alabama man is going on trial in Birmingham on a capital murder charge in the death of his bride, who drowned during their honeymoon trip to Australia.More >>
Lawyers for the owners of the drilling rig that exploded at the start of the 2010 oil spill are asking a federal judge to make a key witness talk to them before their trial.More >>
Alabama officials are hoping to get emergency approval to move a giant sand pile in Gulf Shores to repair erosion in front of beachfront homes before tourism season.More >>
A dream honeymoon to scuba dive on Australia's Great Barrier Reef turned into a terrible nightmare, and the horror is about to play out years later in a courtroom in Alabama.More >>
An environmental group says oil wells leaking off Alabama's Gulf coast since Hurricane Ivan damaged them nearly eight years ago have discharged far more oil than official government estimates.More >>
Auto parts manufacturer ZF is launching a $14.6 million expansion of its plant in Tuscaloosa, which should see dozens of additional jobs as a result.More >>
A man will spend 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges he bilked members of a Hazel Green church out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.More >>
The federal government's lead lawyer in an upcoming trial over fault in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is urging judges to make sensitive business documents and testimony public.More >>
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says he's cooperating with an Office of Government Ethics investigation into his stock trades and expects to be exonerated.More >>
Mississippi casino operators say they trust state leaders that exploration and drilling would be low-key for natural gas and out of sight of most of the mainland.More >>
The city council in Opelika has awarded a contract to Arizona-based American Traffic Solutions to install and maintain the city's red-light camera project.More >>
A Massachusetts judge has decided to make public part of the inquest transcript into the 1986 shooting death of the brother of an Alabama university professor accused of killing three colleagues.More >>
Authorities say all westbound lanes on a stretch of Interstate 20 were shut down early Friday morning in eastern Alabama, causing traffic tie-ups for motorists.More >>
A defense lawyer says an Uzbekistan national charged with supporting terrorism in a plot to kill President Barack Obama will plead guilty in federal court in Alabama.More >>
An Arizona state senator leading the charge to overturn that state's much debated immigration law and an Alabama activist fighting his state's new anti-immigration law are scheduled to speak at a forum in Santa Fe.More >>
The sponsor of a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" says all the people outraged about the proposal have missed its satirical intent.More >>
Mobile police Chief Micheal Williams says a robbery suspect who killed an officer killed while being escorted to jail last week had concealed a 3-inch knife and a handcuff key despite being search by police.More >>
A group of Republican lawmakers ended the first week of the Alabama legislature by announcing they have introduced bills to lower legislative pay.More >>
No tickets matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number, so the jackpot rolled over to an estimated $550,000 in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday.More >>
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