Posts by Erica Thomas

Baldwin County Board of Education (BOE) District 1 member Ken Bradley raised concerns Tuesday about books he discovered in middle and high schools.

Claude Strother is an avid outdoorsman. He hunts and fishes and has always kept a journal of his experiences.

The Gulf Shores Police Department is asking for information to find the owners of an urn that washed ashore on April 17.

Libraries across the state rushed to remove sexually explicit material from their children and teen sections following new guidelines by the Alabama Public Library System in May 2024. The APLS threatened to withhold funding from any library that did not comply with new regulations.

Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said recent violent acts are not acceptable and his staff, along with law enforcement, is taking action.

The Fairhope Public Library board voted not to move a controversial book from the teen section to the adult section after the state paused funding due to explicit material, meaning it will no longer receive state funding.

The Flora-Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar saw over 10,200 people for Easter Sunday church service.

A judge dismissed motions to dismiss filed by several defendants in the case of former Mobile police chief Paul Prine, who is suing several city officials and others in connection with his 2024 termination.

Central Alabama Crimestoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to a rapist.

Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi, of the Archdiocese of Mobile, released a statement early Monday following the death of Pope Francis.

Austal USA in Mobile began building a U.S. Navy towing, salvage and rescue ship. It will be the Navy’s seventh ship of its kind and it is named after an American hero.

This Easter weekend, a White Plains man spent much of his time giving back to the Lord by exhibiting his faith.

The Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF) won the bid for the lease with an option to buy the 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center in Spanish Fort.

As temperatures warm up across Alabama, both venomous and non-venomous snakes are on the move. A professional snake remover in South Alabama learned a hard lesson himself and now he wants to warn others.

The federal government arrested eight people with immigration crimes as part of Operation Take Back America.

One of the three people killed Wednesday in a fatal boat crash on Lewis Smith Lake was a Snead council member and another was a fire district commissioner in Mississippi.

Protesters showed up on Thursday at the Foley Civic Center as U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) spoke at a Chamber of Commerce event.

Shark attack survivor Lulu Gribbin, of Mountain Brook, traveled to Montgomery on Thursday to plead to state representatives to pass a bill that would create a shark attack alert system and she had a very powerful political figure by her side.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency identified three boaters killed early Wednesday during a Major League Fishing tournament on Lewis Smith Lake.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is urging corporations to stop discriminatory DEI practices.

A Major League Fishing angler was among several involved in a crash early Wednesday on Lewis Smith Lake.

A luncheon featuring U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) could be interrupted Thursday due to dueling demonstrations planned outside the event in Foley.

A new cruise line will be stopping by for excursion trips to Mobile next year.

The Alabama Policy Institute's new Alabama Department of Government Efficiency report found that Innovate Alabama awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to companies statewide. Some of those awards caused concern.

Xiaoqin Yan, the Chinese woman convicted of arson and possessing a firearm by an illegal alien and sentenced to eight and a half months in prison, could now face up to five years after she escaped prison.

State Rep. David Faulkner (R-Mountain Brook) explained on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show" why he is sponsoring a bill to create a shark alert system on Alabama's Gulf Coast.

Nine states have joined Alabama’s voter integrity database (AVID), started by Secretary of State Wes Allen to replace the controversial Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).