On Friday, April 19, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed a decision by a Bessemer Division judge, who initially dismissed the cases over lack of jurisdiction. This case was started when the Attorney General’s Office filed search warrants in Jefferson County’s Birmingham ...
A north Alabama attorney pled guilty to harassing a person, accusing his client of domestic violence and making her scared to show up at the courthouse, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Friday. John Totten, 50, of Athens, told the ...
An Alabama Senate committee voted down a bill that would have required the public release of police body-worn camera video and dash camera footage. Senator Merika Coleman, the sponsor of the bill rejected 8-4 by the Senate Judiciary Committee, said ...
Workers at a Mercedes Benz factory in Vance, Alabama will vote between May 13 and May 17 on whether to join the United Auto Workers union and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on Thursday. The vote will come after ...
Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared a health crisis and said that the state of Alabama has the worst infant mortality rate in the country. The disparity is even more alarming for Black women, who face ...
One Alabama lawmaker is working to set a new standard for companies when forming unions. State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) is sponsoring a bill changing how employees unionize. On Thursday, the Alabama Senate advanced legislation to strengthen the state’s weak ...
An Amber Alert issued for Janayizha Gunn and Kaiden Perryman was canceled Tuesday night by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. No additional details have been released to the media at this time. Police are searching for a 5-year-old boy who ...
A new law will soon be in effect to crack down on human trafficking in Alabama. Gov. Kay Ivey signed House Bill 42 into law on April 17, named The Sound of Freedom Act. This is a bill imposing harsher ...
We are expected to know about a cacophony of cicada calls, which have not been known for the last 13 years, as trillions of insects emerge from their underground homes. This year’s emergence is more popular because, around the middle ...
A cost-of-living adjustment for certain retirees under the Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) has been approved by the House Ways and Means Geneal Fund Committee. Rep. Randall Shedd, R-Fairview, sponsored Hb440 which would provide a 3% cost-of-living increase for state employees ...