Clarence Carter

The state of Alabama, which requires a photo ID to vote, announced this week that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties where 75 percent of registered voters are black.

God may also ban short skirts and skimpy dresses in the Alabama town of Dadeville.

With Alabama’s Republican controlled legislature refusing to consider any tax hikes, the state is preparing to take drastic measures to address its budget crisis, including shutting down all state parks and the vast majority of Departments of Motor Vehicles (DMVs). The proposal to close dozens of DMVs across the state, starting in rural areas, could hurt voters who need access to those offices in order to get the ID they need to cast a ballot.

First, there was a little rumble. A bit later came the roar. At the Cripple Creek Stoneyard in Crescent, Oklahoma, clocks fell off the walls, and the office bounced on its slab. At Hometown Foods, the shelves swayed from side to side, tossing cans onto the floor. "It shook stock off every aisle," Hometown co-owner Brian Johnston told VICE News. "It was getting bigger and shaking harder. I was like, 'Crap, this is it.' "

The Alabama cop who was attacked with his own service weapon last week hesitated to shoot the suspect because he feared losing his job. The unnamed officer apparently feared being labelled the next Darren Wilson (the Ferguson cop who shot dead Michael Brown), said Heath Boackle, a sergeant with the Birmingham Police Department and president of the city's Fraternal Order of Police.

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Jim Sterling didn't know what had hit his 156-year-old antebellum home when an earthquake struck Alabama's old plantation region early one morning last November. Startled, he grabbed a gun and ran outdoors. In the pre-dawn chill, Sterling said, he found an odd scene: horses were galloping, cows mooing and dogs barking.

Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, spent half his life on Alabama’s death row, sentenced to die for two 1985 murders that for decades he insisted he did not commit. Over 28 years, the outside world changed while Hinton spent his days largely in a 5ft by 8ft prison cell. Children grew up. His mother died. His hair turned gray. Inmates he knew were escorted off to the electric chair or the lethal-injection gurney.

An Alabama jury has convicted a woman of capital murder in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter. Joyce Hardin Garrard faces a penalty of death or life without parole for the February 2012 death of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin. Sentencing will be later. Garrard showed no reaction, but some relatives sitting behind her began to cry. Authorities claimed the 49-year-old woman forced the girl to run and carry wood for hours as punishment for a lie about candy.

By most accounts, 19-year-old Brittney Wood was with uncle Donnie Holland the night of May 30, 2012, the last time anyone saw her. Holland — who was under investigation for horrific sex crimes at the time — died from a bullet within days in what was ruled a suicide.