Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley issued a proclamation late Wednesday that would keep state legislators in Montgomery to address pending legislations.

When Moore hopped off his horse at his voting place in Etowah County ... office for failing to comply with a federal court order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments that he placed in the Alabama Judiciary Building in Montgomery.

MONTGOMERY - An Alabama ... s attorneys, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, headquartered in Montgomery, sought unspecified damages, but are asking that the award exceed the minimum required. A press release from the law firm’s website ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley says he will sign the General ... (AP) Oakland Raiders linebacker Rolando McClain has been sentenced to 180 days in jail for assault and other charges stemming from a November fight in his ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Legislature has passed ... passed in recent years to try to slow down meth production. According to national crime statistics, Alabama police found 665 locations where meth was being made in 2010. "Alabama has an epidemic ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An international labor union and a Mexican labor lawyers group have filed a complaint challenging Alabama's immigration law under an international trade agreement. The Service Employees International Union and Mexican National ...

A year after the storms, sales of small residential shelters known as safe rooms are surging across much of the nation, especially in hard-hit communities such as Montgomery and Tuscaloosa in Alabama and in Joplin, Mo ... en route to jail and remained ...

DECATUR — Oakland Raiders linebacker Rolando McClain has been sentenced to 180 days in jail for assault and other charges ... Decatur Municipal Judge Bill Cook convicted the 22-year-old former Alabama star Thursday of third-degree assault ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has urged a Louisiana federal judge to set a trial date to hear claims of lost revenue by Alabama and Louisiana because of the massive BP oil spill. Strange said Friday that setting a trial date would put pressure on BP and other companies responsible for the spill. Strange has said that keeping pressure on BP would encourage the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama House has given final approval to a $1.4 billion General Fund budget that restores $184 million to Medicaid and takes it from Alabama's prison system.

Alabama Prison For HTJ : Looks like Harry Thomas Jr . got his wish: He's going to the fanciest federal prison in the system on June 20 . The camp in Montgomery, Ala. has nightly movies, pool tables, and arts and crafts.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTW) — A Senate budget committee chairman said the Legislature appears unlikely to go along with his plan for the state to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange says he is not opposed to the Alabama Legislature making some changes to the state's immigration law. He says he only wants lawmakers to hold off on changing sections dealing with provisions ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The state of Alabama is asking a federal judge to clear the way for a trial against petroleum giant BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A federal judge in New Orleans has said he is leaning in favor of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court paved the way for the city of Pritchard to move forward with a nearly 3-year-old filing for bankruptcy. The ruling released on Friday says cities don't need to have bond debt in order to declare bankruptcy. That means Pritchard's filing can move forward, but also paves the way for Jefferson County's largest-in-history municipal bankruptcy. When ...

When Moore hopped off his horse at his voting place in Etowah County ... him from office for failing to comply with a federal court order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments that he placed in the Alabama Judiciary Building in Montgomery.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) The Alabama Legislature has refused to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that resulted from a botched autopsy on her newborn son. The Senate had ...

DETROIT (USA TODAY) — In a highly unusual move, a lawyer is suing a Wayne County probate judge and two court-appointed lawyers ... hero by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus in 1955. She and her husband eventually moved ...

MONTGOMERY -- Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said he believes Alabama should hold off on changes to its immigration law until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Arizona's similar law this summer. "My recommendation would be to wait until ...

The court set bond at $50,000. NEW ORLEANS (AP) The Alabama man accused of committing sexual battery ... Contributor Network LSU Lands Sam Montgomery, Eric Reid on Lott … When the 2012 Lott IMPACT Trophy Watch List came out, there were two LSU players ...

The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the capital murder conviction and death sentence given to a Montgomery man for the Jan. 20, 2003 beating deaths of an elderly couple during an apparent

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has refused to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that resulted from a botched autopsy on her newborn son.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Madison County would gain a ... Limestone County to reach northwest Huntsville. "I think the law was totally ignored in drafting the districts and, as a lawyer, I don't have much patience for ignoring the law," said ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The state of Alabama is asking a federal judge to clear the way for a trial against petroleum giant BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A federal judge in New Orleans has said he is leaning in favor of approving a proposed class-action settlement to resolve billions of dollars in claims against BP. But the state of Alabama filed papers Tuesday arguing that a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Two Alabamians convicted of running ... Nashville man faces 100-plus child rape charges in Pa. Nashville man faces 100-plus child rape charges in Pa. The two men entered the Gulf station located in the 100 block of Nashville Highway ...

Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, told The Montgomery Beureau  According to the same article Alabama chief Justice Mike Malone defended the bill by saying the state could be forced to lay off as many as 500 court employees unless the bill becomes law. 

MONTGOMERY ... of art from Alabama artists. The exhibit will remain open every Friday and Saturday from noon until 4 p.m. throughout the year. The Freedom Rides Museum is located just south of the intersection of South Court Street and Adams ...

Jail records show that Shannon Gulledge Crowe ... 20 after a joint investigation conducted by the local office of the Alabama Department of Human Resources and the Autauga County Sheriff’s Office led to the charges against her.

The Alabama House voted 61-37 moments before the session ... The House gallery was full with court officials from across the state who had been in and out of Montgomery for more than a week saying the bill was needed to keep courtrooms open.

protesters demonstrated in the Capitol building in Montgomery. Seven people were arrested, including Mary Bauer, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is challenging the Alabama law in court.

Authorities say Jones was initially taken by ambulance to East Alabama Medical Center after a helicopter carrying him to Montgomery had mechanical trouble. He was later taken to UAB Hospital in Birmingham ... the state Supreme Court to block retrials ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Hanging in limbo as Alabama legislators ... up $45 and the court fee for a criminal case would go up $40. The cost of going to small claims court would go up $15.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famed “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Nearly 50 years after that, in April 2013, a collaboration between Red Mountain Theatre Company, the Birmingham Civil ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP ... in favor of approving a proposed class-action settlement to resolve billions of dollars in claims against BP. But the state of Alabama filed papers Tuesday arguing that a trial should be held this year to establish who is ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has refused to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that resulted from a botched autopsy on her newborn son. The Senate had included the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has refused to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that resulted from a botched autopsy on her newborn son. The Senate had included the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Senate budget committee chairman said the Legislature appears unlikely to go along with his plan for the state to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Two Montgomery sisters were sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison and more than half a million dollars restitution for their roles in a scheme that used stolen identities to obtain tax refunds. Loretta and Tracey Fergerson ...

PHENIX CITY — An Alabama city has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a ... promotion and was suspended in 2009 for disobeying orders and refusing to jail a man suspected of second-degree assault with a box cutter. Presley says she couldn't ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Hanging in limbo as Alabama legislators head into the last day of the 2012 session Wednesday is a bill aimed at keeping Alabama courts running in the midst of a brutal financial crisis. Court clerks from all over the state have been ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WTW) — A Senate budget committee chairman said the Legislature appears unlikely to go along with his plan for the state to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that ...