Alabama

Keelon Russell, a five-star recruit and Alabama QB commit, won the 2024-25 Gatorade National Football Player of the Year award. Dallas Cowboys cornerback and Alabama football alum Trevon Diggs surprised Russell with the honor.

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures before being put to death in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.

The university in Alabama canceled classes Wednesday and said it was devastated by the unexpected death of freshman Kaiden Francis.

The man killed in the shooting at Tuskegee University has been identified as 18-year-old male from Troy, Alabama, who was not a student, local authorities said Monday.

The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man in Alabama who was found hanging in an abandoned house.

An appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments in a long-running dispute between two federally recognized tribes over one’s construction of a casino on Alabama land that the other says is a sacred site.

An Alabama high school football player has died a day after he was critically injured during a game.

A security camera captured the moment a trampoline flew and struck an Athens, Alabama, home.

People running and objects flying created a chaotic moment in Hillsboro, Alabama.

A helicopter crash at Fort Novosel Army base in Alabama on Wednesday killed one person and injured another, military officials said.

Former Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs has been convicted on two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.

The Alabama law is part of a wave of proposals from Republican lawmakers across the country taking aim at diversity, equity and inclusion programs — also known as DEI — on college campuses.

Kristen Marie Battocletti, 35, entered her plea to one count of wire fraud involving the theft of money from St. Francis of Assisi University Parish in a federal courtroom in Tuscaloosa, al.com reported.

An Alabama sheriff has evacuated his county’s jail, citing a need to prevent “health and safety issues.” Autauga County Sheriff Mark Harrell says in a statement posted on Facebook that deputies began transporting inmates from the Autauga County Metro Jail to other facilities Thursday morning.

The Davis family welcomed their son Johnny Cash Davis just down the hall from the Clarks who welcomed daughter June Carter Clark on April 10.

At least one fertility clinic in Alabama has resumed in vitro fertilization treatments.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation into law Wednesday shielding in vitro fertilization providers from potential legal liability raised by a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children.

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Sarah Stewart, who concurred with the conservative court’s controversial ruling equating frozen embryos with children, won the Republican primary Tuesday for state Supreme Court chief justice, according to NBC News.

Alabama lawmakers are moving quickly with legislation to protect clinics that provide in vitro fertilization from lawsuits in response to a ruling last month from the state’s Supreme Court that frozen embryos have the rights of children under the state’s wrongful death law.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland are among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.