Alabama high court dismissed petitions by groups who want the state's ban on gay marriage enforced. But the chief justice still expressed strong disagreement with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalizes same-sex marriage.
A 3-year-old boy fatally shot his sister to death using an unlocked gun he found at his great grandparent’s house. Police say the shooting is still under investigation.
Christopher E. Brooks was executed Thursday night for being convicted of rape and murder. The Supreme Court upheld Alamaba jury's decision to put Brooks to death by lethal injection.
US Supreme Court declined to hear former Alabama governor Don Siegelman's appeal of his conviction on 2016 bribery. Siegelman said a judge miscalculated his 6 1/2 year sentence.
Alamabama Supreme Court's ruling which was issued last March remains in effect regarding the same-sex marriage ban. Chief Justice Roy Moore issued the order about it.
The son of Alabama's chief justice pleaded not guilty to felony possession of the prescription medication alprazolam and misdemeanor marijuana possession.
An Alabama death row inmate who won a new trial and then reached a plea deal with prosecutors walked out of jail a free man on Thursday, the second condemned man to do so this month.
The Alabama Supreme Court ordered probate judges on Tuesday to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in apparent defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court, underscoring the depth of opposition to gay matrimony in the socially conservative state.
A federal judge in Alabama will hear arguments on Thursday on whether to force a local judge to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, a case with implications for dozens of counties in the state that have not granted the licenses in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court's move on Monday to allow gay marriage to proceed in Alabama is the strongest signal yet that the justices are likely to rule in June that no state can restrict marriage to only heterosexual couples.
Same-sex couples in Alabama will have to put their wedding plans on hold after a federal judge issued a two-week stay on her ruling that struck down the state's laws banning gay marriages, including those performed legally in other states.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, who made headlines in October when he publicly acknowledged being gay, is lending his name to legislation to bar discrimination against state employees on the basis of their sexual orientation in his native Alabama.
The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, visited one of America’s sacred sanctuaries on Saturday, touring the church where four African-American girls were killed in a 1963 bombing that galvanized the civil rights movement.
An Alabama woman accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death as punishment for eating forbidden chocolates and lying about it was set to go on trial on Monday.
An Alabama couple has been charged with raping a 17-year-old relative multiple times in an unsuccessful attempt to impregnate her so they could keep the baby, prosecutors said Monday.
Paul Hard of Montgomery, Alabama said in his lawsuit against the current ban on the recognition of same-sex unions that it was unconstitutional and degraded gays and lesbians in the state to second-class citizens due to the lack of right, said a report by The Associated Press published on Republican American.
The state of Alabama executed convicted murderer Andrew Reid Lackey who prisoner rights groups said was mentally ill, Reuters reported. The 29-year-old Lackey was put to death by lethal injection at Holman Prison in the Atmore, marking the state's first execution since 2011.
After seven days in a bunker, Alabama authorities have killed a gunman and abductor who was holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural Alabama on Monday.
A 65-year-old captor, who allegedly fatally shot a school bus driver on Tuesday, has kept a 5 year old boy captive in an underground bunker, on his property, as the dangerous hostage standoff entered its 4th day.
