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Alabama band director who wouldn't stop performing at football game is tased, arrested by police
The altercation happened Thursday after the Minor and Jackson-Olin High School football game in Birmingham.
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‘It is dangerous to forget' our racial history: Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered remarks in Birmingham, Alabama, at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young black girls were killed.
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During 1963 church bombing remembrance, Jackson says we must own hardest chapters of US history
Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward.
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‘Texas is back': Fans react to Alabama's double-digit loss
No. 11 Texas pulled off a 34-24 upset vs. No. 3 Alabama on the road on Saturday. College football fans had plenty to say about the result.
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Carlee Russell's ex Thomar Latrell Simmons tells all on Alabama abduction hoax
Carlee Russell’s former boyfriend Thomar Latrell Simmons denied knowing about her kidnapping hoax and shut down rumors he was the reason she disappeared over his alleged involvement with a stripper.
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Alabama wants to try executing prisoner by making them breathe pure nitrogen
Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.
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Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice
Bystanders who trained their smartphone cameras on an Alabama riverfront dock, as several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity.
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Day on Alabama river ends in brawl, multiple arrest warrants
A day at the Riverfront in Montgomery, Alabama, ended with a brawl and multiple arrest warrants.
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Wild brawl on Alabama riverfront goes viral
Multiple video clips of a brawl on the riverfront in Montgomery, Alabama, went viral on social media Sunday night, and the city’s mayor reacted with a vow that justice would prevail.
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Carlee Russell charged in fake kidnapping plot
Carlee Russell was arrested Friday for two misdemeanor charges related to her disappearance earlier this month, where she staged a kidnapping after falsely reporting a toddler on the side of an Alabama highway.
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Carlee Russell charged in connection with Alabama kidnapping hoax
Russell, 25, disappeared after calling 911 on July 13 to report a toddler wandering beside a stretch of interstate. She returned home on July 15 and told police she had been abducted.
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‘There was no kidnapping': Carlee Russell apologizes after admitting hoax
Carlee Russell admitted she did not see a toddler wandering on the side of the highway and lied about being kidnapped in a hoax that set off a nationwide effort to find her, an attorney for the Alabama woman said Monday.
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Carlee Russell's boyfriend pleads with people to stop bullying her amid disappearance investigation
Amid the ongoing investigation of Carlee Russell’s mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend Thomar Latrell Simmons has spoken out to ask “everyone to stop bullying her” online.
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Alabama lawmakers refuse to create 2nd majority-Black congressional district
Alabama lawmakers have refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district.
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Alabama executes man for the beating death of a woman, resuming lethal injections after review
Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections following a pause to review procedures.
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Investigation into Carlee Russell disappearance reveals suspicious internet searches, inconsistencies: Alabama officials
Chief Nick Derzis of the Hoover police department provided updates Wednesday on the alleged kidnapping of Carlee Russell, including internet searches on the movie “Taken” and bus schedules out of Birmingham the day of her disappearance. “We’ve been unable to verify most of Carlee’s initial statement made to investigators, and we have no reason to believe there’s a threat to...
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Parents of reappeared Alabama woman believe abductor is ‘absolutely' still out there
The parents of an Alabama woman who vanished for 48 hours said in an exclusive interview with NBC News that their daughter was abducted and her abductor is “absolutely” still at large.
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Alabama Republicans reject call for 2nd majority Black district, despite Supreme Court ruling
Alabama Republicans have rejected proposals to create a second majority Black voting district, despite an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional district boundaries.
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Woman who vanished after reporting child on an Alabama interstate found alive, taken to hospital
According to Hoover Police Department, Hoover 911 center received a call at 10:45 p.m. on Saturday that Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell had returned home to her residence.
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Chief suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance pleads not guilty to extortion charges
The chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to extort the missing teen’s mother. Joran van der Sloot was arraigned in federal court in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday. He was flown to the U.S. on Thursday from Peru, where he’s serving a 28-year sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian...