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Members of the Alabama Supreme Court temporarily paused litigation on Tuesday in a lawsuit involving alleged self-dealing among trustees overseeing a scholarship fund for needy children created by former Alabama Secretary of State Mabel Amos.

The Council of State Governments Southern Office elected House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) chair for 2024-2025 recently.

Autauga County residents will vote on an ad valorem tax increase designed to add an additional $7 million annually to the school district’s local funds. 

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general in demanding answers from the nation’s top asset managers to determine if they are neglecting their fiduciary duty to their clients. 

Members of the Alabama Supreme Court upheld previous rulings on litigation involving former Chief Justice Roy Moore on Friday.

Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, will be the keynote speaker at the Alabama Republican Party’s annual summer dinner. 

An Alabama pharmacist and pharmacy owner said they weren’t allowed to attend an “unofficial” legislative study group in Montgomery on Thursday created to develop pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) legislation for the 2025 legislative session.

A Democrat candidate for Clay County Commission pleaded not guilty to seven voter fraud charges on Wednesday.

Federal judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request on Wednesday for a rehearing in a lawsuit against a 2022 Alabama law banning doctors from performing transgender operations. 

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed has endorsed Shomari Figures as the Democrat candidate for Alabama’s second congressional district race.

Auburn University’s total undergraduate and graduate enrollment is 33,885 students for the fall semester.

A rape in Prattville in May, 2023 by an illegal alien from Honduras was the result of the Biden administration’s “dangerous immigration policies,” according to a report released by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith filed a revised indictment on Tuesday in the federal government’s case against former President Donald Trump.

Alabama’s state sales tax on groceries won’t be cut by another one cent on Sunday.

On Friday, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals removed the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission from some litigation regarding the awarding of cannabis business licenses.

A lawsuit backed by Alabama has temporarily blocked a new amnesty plan from the Biden administration.

Chief U.S. District Judge David Proctor found James “Jay” Justice III in contempt on Thursday for failing to respond to multiple court orders in an ongoing Clean Water Act lawsuit in Birmingham.

Former Senior Trooper Ryan Rhodes resigned from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency on Friday after his arrest by deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office for electronic solicitation of a child, traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and resisting arrest. 

The Supreme Court of Alabama declined on Friday to rehear a lawsuit involving alleged self-dealing among trustees overseeing a scholarship fund for needy children created by former Alabama Secretary of State Mabel Amos.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and 15 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas on Friday attempting to stop a new plan from the Biden administration that would give over 1 million illegal aliens citizenship.

The Alabama Supreme Court denied a request from Alabama churches to rehear a disaffiliation lawsuit against the United Methodist Church on Friday.

Former Houston County Assistant District Attorney Mark Johnson was found guilty on ethics charges after a Houston County jury returned six guilty verdicts Thursday afternoon. 

The Southeastern Conference, along with the City of Hoover and the Public Park and Recreation Board of the City of Hoover, announced Thursday an agreement to hold the SEC Baseball Tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium through at least 2028.

High levels of immigration into the United States lowers the wages of American workers, according to former U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions.

A mysterious poll started popping up in text messages of some Senate District 16 residents this week asking who their preferred candidate would be to replace State Sen. Jabo Waggoner (R-Vestavia Hills) if he decided not to run for re-election in 2026.

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) and other veterans in Congress are calling on Democrat vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to “come clean to the American people” about his military record.

The United Methodist Church’s (UMC) court will deliberate in October on the handling of church exits in Alabama and other states in recent years.