The 11th Circuit sided with news media organizations Monday, ruling Alabama cannot prevent the press from making the state’s lethal injection execution protocol public and thwarting the state’s zealous efforts to keep its execution methods secret.
Read moreA truck driving preacher charged with killing two Alabama teenagers found shot to death in a car trunk nearly 20 years ago was tied to the killings through a DNA match uncovered with genetic genealogy testing, authorities said Monday.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a former police chief’s racial discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit against Alexander City, Ala.; the city does not qualify for immunity as the allegations presented are a violation of federal law.
Read moreBacked by the NAACP and ACLU, the father of the young black man whom Alabama police shot to death in a shopping mall on Thanksgiving said concerns for officer safety are no reason to withhold video footage and the name of the officer who fired the deadly shots.
Read moreAn Alabama judge’s ruling has given legal standing to an aborted embryo.
Read moreCousins Cordarrly Jones and Demetria Jones have a hard time counting all the relatives they lost to a monster tornado that wiped out a rural community in Alabama.
Read moreA federal judge in Washington, D.C, ruled Monday he would not speed up a court fight over the fate of a former University of Alabama student who joined the Islamic State terrorist group and now wants to return to the United States.
Read moreA tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 23 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that caused catastrophic damage and unleashed other tornadoes around the Southeast.
Read moreBlack Warrior River-Keeper claims the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency arbitrarily and capriciously removed rivers in Alabama from its list of impaired waters.
Read moreA narrow Supreme Court majority ordered new proceedings Wednesday in the case of an Alabama man with dementia who no longer remembers committing the murder that landed him on death row.
Read moreAn Alabama man whose daughter joined the Islamic State terrorist group and now wants to return to America filed a federal lawsuit Thursday night challenging the Trump administration’s determination that she is not a U.S. citizen.
Read moreAn 11th Circuit panel heard arguments Wednesday over whether Alabama police officers who shot a man in his front yard after a car chase should be immune from his excessive-force lawsuit.
Read moreAn 11th Circuit panel appeared highly unsympathetic Tuesday to Alabama drivers who argue a city ordinance unlawfully imposes fines on motorists caught by automated red-light cameras without giving them the right to confront their accuser.
Read moreAttorneys for an Alabama man sentenced to 37 years in prison for a bank robbery asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to reduce his punishment in light of the criminal-justice reform law passed by Congress last month.
Read moreAn Alabama judge ruled Friday that high school basketball star Maori Davenport can take the court tonight pending final judgment in her case against the Alabama High School Athletic Association, which stripped her eligibility because of a mistake admittedly made by USA Basketball.
Read moreConceived by a group of New Jersey high school students, a bill President Donald Trump signed this week mandates the public disclosure of the FBI’s closed case files on murders of black people during the civil rights movement.
Read moreAttorneys for Alabama asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to overturn a federal judge’s refusal to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit claiming the state’s method of electing judges is unfair to black voters.
Read moreNuclear Development LLC claim in a $29 million federal complaint that the Tennessee Valley Authority refused to sell it the unfinished Bellefonte nuclear power plant in Hollywood, Ala., under terms of a contract.
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