Execution highlights divide between Christian conservatives on abortion and capital punishment

The state's abortion ban treats women as victims of evil doctors rather than informed, willing participants. By Emily Atkin.

A team of scholars and archaeologists have decoded Cherokee inscriptions written hundreds of years ago in a cave in Alabama. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are the first evidence of the tribe's syllabary, which uses symbols to create words. Experts say one inscription describes a game similar to lacrosse. They say it details an 1828 match and indicates players entered the cave before the games and during intermission for specific ceremonies.

A small-town Alabama police department this week alleged Beelzebub is responsible for a recent spike in homicides and it’s all thanks to nonbelievers in the rural community. The Opp Police Department shared the bold opinion on its Facebook page Tuesday. Written in all capital letters, it read, in part...

There was no “maybe.”

The appellate court agreed with the lower court that there was enough evidence that an Argo Alabama officer used excessive force in repeatedly tasing a man who went into diabetic shock while driving.

Four officers in the Jasper Police Department were suspended for making a hand gesture while posing for a photo. Some people claimed the circular gesture was racist, according to the city's mayor, David O'Mary.

A man is in custody after pulling out a gun at a protest in Big Spring Park according to Huntsville police. Lt. Michael Johnson confirms 34-year-old Shane Ryan Sealy was arrested Saturday. and charged with menacing and reckless endangerment. Bond has not been set. Police say no shots were fired and no one was hurt.

A 13-year-old boy who suffered severe brain trauma in an accident regained consciousness after his parents signed paperwork to donate his organs. Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Alabama, suffered the injury two months ago when a small utility trailer he was riding flipped over. "I hit the concrete, and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don't remember anything," he told WALA-TV.

Sherman Williams ran with a football for the University of Alabama and for the Dallas Cowboys. Later, he ran from the law. On Sunday, he walked to get his degree. Williams, who played for the Crimson Tide in the 1990s – and who spent 15 years in federal prison – graduated with a degree in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in community leadership.

The treatment of a 25-year-old black Mobile woman who was arrested early Sunday morning inside a Waffle House in Saraland by white Saraland Police officers is quickly driving outrage in Alabama and beyond. Chikesia Clemons, whose arrest was captured on graphic video that is currently going viral on social media, will be speaking to members of the Mobile County NAACP Branch Sunday afternoon. Several community members held a sit-in protest Sunday afternoon...

The 18-year-old denied a plea deal of 25 years, receiving a full 65-year punishment from an Alabama judge instead.

If you saw a white substance streaming away from your airplane's wing after takeoff, what would you do? Figure it's just a weird air thing and ignore it? Keep an eye on it? Or would you rely on your background as a NASA aerospace engineer, where safety is an everyday issue, and realize it was time to flag down the flight attendant? NASA aerospace engineer Rumaasha Maasha made choice No. 3 on a flight out of Huntsville, Ala., and that's why he's being praised for quick action in a bad situation.

Right now, dozens of train cars carrying 10 million pounds of poop are stranded in a rural Alabama rail yard. Technically it's biowaste, but to the 982 residents in the small town of Parrish, that's just semantics. They want it gone. The load has been there for almost two months, and it's making the whole place smell like a rotting animal carcass.

A teenager tried as an adult under Alabama's accomplice liability law was sentenced to 65 years in prison Thursday after rejecting an earlier plea deal that recommended 25 years. In a two-day trial in March, Lakeith Smith, now 18, of Montgomery was convicted of felony murder, burglary and theft for helping in the 2015 break-ins of two homes in Millbrook, about 10 miles north of Montgomery. He did not kill A'Donte Washington, 16, of Montgomery, who was part of a group of five accused in the thefts.

A sheriff in Alabama took home as personal profit more than $750,000 that was budgeted to feed jail inmates — and then purchased a $740,000 beach house, a reporter at The Birmingham News found. And it's perfectly legal in Alabama, according to state law and local officials. Alabama has a Depression-era law that allows sheriffs to "keep and retain" unspent money from jail food-provision accounts.

One student was killed and another teen was injured when a gun discharged at an Alabama high school Wednesday in what police described as an accidental shooting. The incident took place at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Alabama, between 3:15 and 3:30 p.m., and sparked a brief lockdown at the school, according to police and school officials. Birmingham Police Chief Orlando Wilson said the shooting left a 17-year-old girl dead and a 17-year-old boy wounded.

Legislation moving through the Alabama State House would make owners of dogs who severely injure or kill people subject to felony charges. The bill is named after Emily Colvin, who was attacked and killed by five dogs in front of her home in Section in Jackson County in December. Colvin was 24. Five members of Colvin's family were on hand today when House and Senate committees approved the bill, which is sponsored in the House by...

Relying on historical records and accounts from old timers, AL.com may have located the long-lost wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to bring human cargo to the United States.

The true freshman Tua Tagovailoa replaced Alabama’s starting quarterback, Jalen Hurts, at halftime, and led the Crimson Tide past Georgia in a thrilling comeback.