State News

By The Associated Press A stretch of a street in west Tuscaloosa now recognizes Investigator Dornell Cousette, a police officer killed in 2019 while trying to take a suspect into custody. Some Tuscaloosa Police officers […]

By The Associated Press Alabama’s capital city last month removed the Confederate president’s name from an avenue and renamed it after a lawyer known for his work during the civil rights movement. Now the state […]

By Mike Cason  The rate of paroles granted to state prison inmates by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles dropped to 15% during the last fiscal year, the third straight year of decline. The three-member […]

By Roy S. Johnson This is an opinion column. Let them speak. Hear them. Let the students speak. Hear their unease. Hear their fears. Hear their pain. Hear Black students striving to be educated in Cullman—the […]

By Mike Cason  The Alabama Department of Archives History today unveiled busts of two women who fought for voting rights in Alabama, monuments that will be on permanent display in the ADAH’s Statuary Hall. Pattie Ruffner […]

By Shauna Stuart Birmingham Mayor Randall L. Woodfin will attend the signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at the White House. The signing will take place Monday, Nov. 15. Late Nov. 5, the House approved a […]