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September 12, 2023

US Supreme Court urged to intervene in AL redistricting case over the creation of a Black-majority district

Alabama has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the state to maintain its Republican-drawn congressional lines as Democrats call for the creation of a second Black-majority district.

September 11, 2023

Auburn University hunts for suspect who attacked woman headed to campus

Auburn University police are searching for a suspect accused of pushing a woman down just outside campus on Sunday morning and sexually assaulting her.

September 11, 2023

Alabama woman, who hung racially offensive dolls on Black neigbhors’ fence, gets a year behind bars

A woman has been sentenced for violating the civil rights of her Black neighbors. The woman tried to pressure them to move by hanging racially offensive dolls on their fence.

September 10, 2023

Some National Guard units haven't followed order to ditch Confederate items: report

Army National Guard units in some southern states have allowed the deadline to pass without turning in Confederate-themed guidon streamers as mandated by Congress.

September 8, 2023

Alabama school suspends 1st-grader for making finger gun while playing cops and robbers, says outraged parent

Jerrod Belcher, whose son J.B. attends Bagley Elementary School in Jefferson County, Ala., says his son was suspended for making a finger gun while playing "cops and robbers."

September 7, 2023

Alabama deputy kills sheriff's office employee he was dating in murder-suicide: Officials

An Alabama sheriff's deputy allegedly killed a woman he was dating who was also an employee at the law enforcement office in what's being considered a murder-suicide.

September 7, 2023

Alabama man gets life without parole for killing 5 family members when he was 14

Mason Sisk, 18, has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for the 2019 shooting deaths of his father, stepmother, and siblings, aged six months to six years.

September 7, 2023

Married teacher preyed on teen students at private Christian school: police

A former teacher at Alabama's Crenshaw Christian Academy is accused of seducing and sexually abusing two teenage boys who had been her students, according to police.

September 6, 2023

Alabama man convicted of sexually torturing, robbing victims he met online

An Alabama man was found guilty of a dozen criminal charges, including rape, robbery, sexual torture, and theft, in connection with allegations of sexually abusing and robbing women.

September 5, 2023

Carlee Russell's ex-boyfriend breaks silence after Alabama woman's disappearance hoax

Carlee Russell's ex-boyfriend opened up about the faked disappearance and said he still doesn't know why she decided to fake her own abduction.