Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr., addressed the public Wednesday in a press conference where he discussed the reasons for his decision to place Police Chief Kenta Fulford on administrative leave for the second time in just over a year.
A divided legislative committee on Wednesday delayed a vote on legislation that would give state inmates the right to to speak by video conference at their parole hearings.
Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill to ban teachers from displaying LGBTQ+ pride flags on public school property and expand the state’s ban on teacher-led discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity.
It’s time to take the bills out of your mailbox and add a few boxes of food! Saturday, May 11 marks the annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive from the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with the decades of controversy around the issue.
The Alabama House of Representatives has advanced a compromise on gambling legislation to authorize a state lottery and allow slot machines at seven locations in the state, but the measure has stalled amid opposition in the Alabama Senate
A new DEA proposal that would reclassify marijuana as a schedule 3 drug has the Montgomery County sheriff reminding citizens that the drug is still illegal.
The Alabama House of Representatives passed an amended gaming legislation bill after coming to an agreement Tuesday at the committee’s first public meeting.
Maurice D’Antonio Chatman was arrested following a standoff and double homicide in Huntsville early Wednesday morning. He's accused of killing Daniel Jones and Ernest Bragg.
Republican states are filing a barrage of legal challenges against the Biden administration’s new expanded campus sexual assault rules, saying they overstep the president’s authority and undermine the Title IX anti-discrimination law.
An Alabama legislative committee has voted to set aside $10 million from the state’s 2025 Education Trust Fund budget to support administrative funding for Summer EBT, a food assistance program for children.