In Alabama’s runoff election for the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, Luther Strange may have the crowning endorsement of President Donald Trump, but Roy Moore seemed to have support from beyond the grave.
Read moreOn Sept. 26, Republican voters in Alabama will head to voting booths to decide a runoff election between Roy Moore and Luther Strange that’s more than just picking another U.S. senator. The Alabama runoff has become a fight over the style – not substance – of the candidates and could signal how the GOP base thinks of Congress.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a law enforcement conference in south Alabama on Friday that “violent crime is back with a vengeance.”
Read moreThe former CEO of Alabama One Credit Union claims in a federal lawsuit that disgraced former Gov. Robert Bentley and his ex-legal advisor David Byrne coerced settlements from the credit union for the benefit of Byrne’s lawyer friend, causing it to go into conservatorship and costing the CEO his job.
Read moreA Florida ministry accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of defamation after the center’s hate-group designation caused Amazon to deny the church’s application to fundraise through the internet giant’s charitable website.
Read moreAlabama sued its largest city on Wednesday, claiming Birmingham violated a new state law by covering up a 112-year-old monument to Confederate soldiers in a downtown park in response to the deadly clash in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend.
Read moreAlabama’s former Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, twice suspended for defying the law, will face a runoff election in September against Luther Strange, who was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions when he became U.S. attorney general.
Read moreA federal judge has struck down Alabama’s one-of-a-kind law that enabled judges to put minors seeking abortions through a trial-like proceeding in which the fetus could get a lawyer and prosecutors could object to the pregnant girl’s wishes.
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An Alabama woman claims in court that local news outlets incorrectly identified her and her minor relative as being involved in a human trafficking and sexual assault case by publishing photos of them instead of the suspect.
Read moreThe parents of a former University of Alabama student sued the school and the Tuscaloosa, Alabama sheriff’s department over their handling of the reported rape by their daughter, who later committed suicide.
Read moreA former Alabama legislator pleaded guilty Thursday to accepting bribes from powerful Birmingham law firm to advocate against expansion of a massive EPA Superfund site in the city.
Read moreA divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that an Alabama death-row inmate was denied his constitutional right to an independent mental health expert to help the defense team in his murder trial.
Read moreAlabama death-row inmate Robert Melson is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, despite a flurry of legal challenges in recent days to the use of the drugs that will take his life.
Read moreAlabama executed a convicted murderer on Thursday after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas first stayed the execution before the full court lifted the stay, in an appeal challenging the state’s three-drug lethal-injection protocol.
Read moreMedistat RX, a compounding pharmacy in Alabama, distributed mislabeled drugs contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus that had to be recalled in September 2015, the United States says in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe sheriff and court system of Randolph County, Alabama, are the latest to face a federal class action accusing them of jailing poor people arrested on minor charges for long times merely because they cannot pay the bail.
Read moreA north Alabama water supplier sued 3M, DuPont and a number of other corporate defendants on Monday for allegedly contributing to chemical contamination in the Coosa River.
Read moreA federal judge has approved a $5 million partial settlement in a dispute over water contamination in northern Alabama.
Read moreThe Supreme Court’s liberal justices shredded an argument by Alabama’s solicitor general Monday that criminal defendants are not entitled to a mental health expert separate from the ones tapped by prosecutors.
Read moreThe Supreme Court said Monday they won’t take up a case challenging Alabama’s ban on the transfer of campaign contributions between political action committees.
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