HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Police in north Alabama on Wednesday night used smoke and tear gas to sweep protesters out of a town square in Huntsville,.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system said Wednesday that a second inmate has died after testing positive for COVID-19 as the number of cases among inmates and staff continued to rise....

MOODY, Ala. (AP) — A police officer was fatally shot Tuesday night when responding to a call at a motel in Alabama, and two people were arrested, authorities said.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A mother who lost custody of her terminally ill son to the state is fighting an effort to withhold life support measures and let the child die naturally.

SPANISH FORT, Ala. (AP) — A lawyer for a city worker who accused an Alabama mayor of slapping her last year has been fired after refusing to perform temperature checks on people at City Hall, her...

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate was captured in Tennessee about five hours after he escaped from custody, prison officials said.

Michael Kimbrough, 38, was arrested Tuesday night in...

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — The city of Auburn is changing the name of a street named after a former Alabama House speaker convicted of felony ethics charges.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A popular recreation area that runs through three southern states is reopening more of its facilities after restricting access due to the coronavirus, federal officials...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama congresswoman said Monday it is time to end a state holiday celebrating the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has topped 18,000 cases of coronavirus with nearly a third of the cases being added in the last two weeks.

As of Monday, Alabama had more than 18,000 cases of...

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Twenty people were arrested at a weekend protest near Hoover City Hall while demonstrating against the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, police said Sunday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Shelters that open during dangerous hurricanes may look and operate differently this storm season, state emergency officials said, as the new coronavirus complicate...

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama jail is getting a new tool to fight efforts to bring contraband into the facility.

The sheriff's office is spending $125,250 for a full-body scanner for...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Montgomery might become the latest Alabama city to require the wearing of face masks in public as the city deals with rising COVID-19 cases.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama prison system reported that an inmate died after being assaulted by another inmate.

A spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Corrections said Jamaal...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The body of an Alabama teenager who went missing while fishing earlier this week was pulled Friday from the Elk River.

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — Two months after he disappeared from Alabama, the man's body has been found in South Carolina.

Phillip Rawling Jr., 42, was reported missing March 31 by his family in...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama-Huntsville’s hockey program has gotten a reprieve — for now.

Athletic director Cade Smith said Friday that “numerous individual donors” had combined to raise...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A lawsuit is seeking to ease Alabama’s restrictions on absentee ballots and in-person voting during the COVID-19 pandemic, including to allow early voting as a way of...

PHENIX, Ala. (AP) — A man in Alabama died when he got caught in a wood chipper that got jammed at his workplace, police said.

When officers arrived at Phenix Lumber Co. within the hour of...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Department of Corrections reported Thursday that two more inmates and several more employees have tested positive for COVID-19.

An Alabama teenager who was set to play college football at UAB has died in what authorities called an accidental drowning in a state park lake.

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama high school student who attended a graduation ceremony last week has tested positive for the new coronavirus, a school district announced Wednesday.

GRAND BAY, Ala. (AP) — Six veterans were hospitalized after being found in an unlicensed group home without access to food, drinks, their medications and a phone, an Alabama sheriff...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A woman has been arrested on charges of helping two prisoners who escaped from the Tuscaloosa County Jail last week, authorities said.

SEMMES, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman is in custody after she allegedly killed her boyfriend.

Amanda E. Moberly, 34, of Semmes, called 911 around 11 p.m. Tuesday after an argument with Steven...

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — The operators of a barbecue restaurant in Orange Beach say they will reopen after a fire swept through parts of the business.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) —

Jeff Sessions on Tuesday challenged Tommy Tuberville to a series of five debates ahead of their July runoff in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s requirement to have witnesses sign an absentee ballot is not a violation of the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in a brief...

DANVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Officers have arrested a man wanted in the killings of his estranged wife and two others, police said Tuesday.

Decatur police said Carson Ray Peters, 58, was in...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to consider the appeal of an Alabama death row inmate convicted in two slayings.

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — Searchers have found two bodies on the Alabama coast near where crews have been searching for two Louisiana men who went missing in the surf.

BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A Mississippi man found shot to death in Alabama was lured across the state line by someone offering a cheap used iPhone, his family said.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) _ Hibbett Sports Inc. (HIBB) on Tuesday reported a fiscal first-quarter loss of $15.3 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The owner of the contracting company of which two workers were killed in a trench collapse in Mississippi earlier this month was previously issued 27 federal citations for...

DANVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Police are searching for man charged with murder in the killing of three north Alabama residents.

Decatur police on Sunday identified Carson Ray Peters as the suspect,...

Multiple agencies continued to search Monday for two swimmers reported missing off an Alabama beach.

The Orange Beach Police Department said Ryan Guy, 28, and Darius Robinson, 22, were...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Three men who escaped from a west Alabama jail have been recaptured.

The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office tells The Tuscaloosa News that 38-year-old Richard...

Alabama’s death toll from the coronavirus climbed to at least 551 on Sunday, according to data from the state Department of Public Health.

There have been over 14,200 confirmed cases of the...

BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) — A man reported missing from Mississippi has been found dead in Alabama.

Bessemer Police said 45-year-old Michael Jones' truck was found Friday about 3:30 p.m. A further...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is banning outdoor burning in a dozen of its 67 counties to protect air quality.

The order, which includes the state's most populated counties, covers areas...