State News

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Tuition is going up for Alabama’s community and technical colleges. The Decatur Daily reports the Alabama Community College System on Wednesday approved a $10-a-credit-hour increase set to go into effect […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A group is calling for the removal of a statue on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol honoring a 19th century doctor who experimented on slaves. State Sen. Hank Sanders and […]

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey is applauding the announcement that for the 12th year in a row, Alabama’s First Class Pre-K program is being hailed as one of the nation’s highest quality state-funded pre-kindergarten programs […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A second Auburn University employee has sued the school for racial discrimination in a month, the Montgomery Advertiser reported Wednesday. Cameron Boozer, who is black, has been a supervisor in the […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a young boy was shot while he was asleep inside his southwest Birmingham home early Monday. Birmingham police said shots were fired about 3 a.m. into the home at […]

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) – The search for a new president of Tuskegee University is down to two people. The historically black school in east Alabama says Lilly McNair and Jack Thomas are the remaining two […]

An Alabama woman was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed inside a Waffle House over plastic utensils. Chikesia Clemons, 25, and her friend Canita Adams placed an order at a Waffle House in Mobile, Alabama […]

HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — Charles Barkley has donated $250,000 toward educating Mississippi and Alabama high school students about African-American history. The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tennessee reported last month the basketball Hall of Famer and […]

I believe that everyone between the ages of four and sixty four should either be in a good school or a good job. That is why one of my long-time goals has been to see […]

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama inched closer to setting aside a day to honor civil rights icon Rosa Parks. An Alabama Senate committee on Tuesday approved legislation to name Dec. 1 as Rosa Parks […]