The court will determine if the current map, which led to the election of a second Black Democrat, will be permanent or ...

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state ...

Conservative state lawmakers want to bring God and country back to the classroom. Four bills now in front of the state house and senate deal with prayer, the Ten Commandments, the pledge of allegiance ...

Alabama lawmakers debated Wednesday whether to require schools to start their day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a ...

A piece of proposed legislation spurned on by the complaints of two Jefferson County mothers is one step closer to becoming ...

Alabama executed murderer and rapist Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas at 6 p.m. Thursday. He was convicted in the ...

Alabama lawmakers moved forward with a bill allowing the death penalty for child rapists, hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will reassess its 2008 decision that deemed such punishment unconstitutional.

A new bill would punt multiple lawsuits over licenses to the Alabama Supreme Court, expand the number of integrated licenses ...

The battle over Alabama's congressional map is set to continue as a key redistricting trial, Caster v. Allen, begins Monday.

Alabama politics. Not only did the state host a race on our board of competitive House contests after a 14-year absence, it also sent two African Americans to Congress for the first time ever.

A legal battle over Alabama’s congressional districts begins Monday at Hugo Black Federal Courthouse in Birmingham. If the ...