State News

SOURCE: ALABAMA DEMOCRATIC PARTY Rep. Chris England MONTGOMERY – In a historic meeting, Representative Chris England was elected to the position of Chair of the Alabama Democratic Party by a majority of the State Democratic […]

In a Feb. 12, 2014 file photo, Rep. Steve Hurst, R-Munford, watches discussion on the house floor in the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. (KIM CHANDLIER, AP) – – Some Alabama sex offenders who abuse […]

SOURCE: Office of Sen. Richard Shelby Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) granted the City of Huntsville a total of […]

by Associated Press University of Alabama employees remove the name of Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. off the School of Law sign in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Friday, June 7, 2019. The University of Alabama board of trustees […]

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Dives into murky water, painstaking examinations of relics and technical data and rigorous peer review led historians and archaeologists to confirm last week that wreckage found […]

by Kirsten J. Barnes Mobile, Ala. – – Proven leadership, an ability to unite people, and the tenacity to rebuild Alabama’s Democratic Party are some of the reasons Senator Vivian Davis Figures announced her plans […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Justice Department issued a scathing report on Alabama’s prisons on Wednesday, saying the state is violating the Constitution by failing to protect inmates from violence and sexual abuse and by […]

SOURCE: Associated Press In this Feb. 28, 2019, photo a worker adjusts a banner celebrating Alabama’s bicentennial outside the Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Ala. Alabama is the latest state trying to balance […]

The African-American woman who took over an Alabama newspaper after its previous editor endorsed the Ku Klux Klan’s return has resigned after less than month. Elecia R. Dexter told The New York Times on Friday […]