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Following weeks of calls for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to release video of the officer-involved shooting death of Jabari Peoples, the state's lead investigator said in court documents that it could happen soon.

As more Democrats join in calling for the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) is questioning their motives.

The amount of foreign-owned land in each county differs dramatically across Alabama.

As officials in Bibb County continue to investigate and make arrests in a horrific child sex trafficking case in Bibb County, a U.S. Senate candidate with extensive credentials fighting anti-human trafficking operations is responding.

The City of Irondale announced that the sixth Costco in Alabama will be built in the city. The plan, which a letter from former mayor Charles Moore shows, was set into motion in April of 2018, and has come together just weeks before municipal elections. Demonstrating Cueller's tenacious efforts to move the city forward and address its budget and tax problems.

Hundreds of students, players and friends are saying goodbye to Coach Skip Griffies and wife Jane who died July 24-25.

Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl recently took former President Barack Obama to task for calling on Israel to stop its military operations in Gaza amid its ongoing war with Hamas.

A bipartisan group in Congress is working on legislation to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) at the federal level rather than sending funding through block grants to the states, according to U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile).

State Rep. Patrick Sellers (D-Pleasant Grove) joined the growing number of state leaders calling for accountability in reaction to the death of the three-year-old Bessemer boy who died in Alabama Department of Human Resources custody after allegedly being left in a hot car for nearly five hours.

The body of an unknown man will undergo an official autopsy to determine when and how he died after investigators found him dead in a Foley apartment.

“We will shut Homewood down for justice,” Black Lives Matter (BLM) Birmingham’s Wayne Taft Harris, Jr. said during a city council meeting.

A Fairhope city councilman running for re-election is without a campaign website after his page was taken over by Drag Story Hour.

Mobile City Councilman William Carroll paid respects to a local high school student who drowned over the weekend at Smith Lake.

Folks who grew up in Montgomery from 1950 to 1980 will recognize references in the new song, "Back to Montgomery."

Through The Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal, 1819 News will daily publish culture and life articles that seek to ground our readers in the truths and traditions of the West’s Christian heritage while illuminating better paths forward for individuals, families, leaders, and our state.

On Monday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) discussed paying down national debt, which is approaching $37 trillion.

In response to horrific child sex abuse cases recently discovered in Bibb County, State Rep. Matt Simpson (R-Daphne) and State Sen. April Weaver (R-Brierfield) will unveil legislation to extend the death penalty to child rapists at a press conference on Thursday.

The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Honduran national in connection with the attempted murder of a Hispanic man who was stabbed at a soccer game.

The St. Louis Street project, which has been eight years in the making, was approved Tuesday by the Mobile City Council.

Congress should “consider taking action preempting abortion shield laws” in blue states, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

Marion County Circuit Judge Talmage Lee Carter recently placed a stay on the scheduled nitrogen hypoxia execution of David Lee Roberts, 59, until the state can determine if Roberts is mentally capable of being executed.

The Gulf Shores City Council approved a one-year extension of the contract with Hangout Music Fest, LLC.

A former Miss America, who ran two unsuccessful campaigns in Alabama as a progressive Democrat, took to TikTok to bash President Donald Trump supporters and to tell them to shut their mouths about any child sexual abuse case.

Mayors from across the state of Alabama continued pushing for changes to Alabama’s online sales tax law after a meeting in Tuscaloosa on Monday.

State Rep. Ernie Yarbrough (R-Trinity) is trying to take on businesses and institutions that might target individuals based on their vaccination status with a pre-filed bill ahead of the 2026 legislative session.

Jiandong Cao and Xuejun Zheng were both arrested by the Pelham Police Department recently for allegedly possessing 15 counterfeit devices after being suspected of switching out gift cards at local CVS stores.

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) is trying to “set the record straight” on Republicans’ plan for Medicaid and assuage fears of massive cuts stoked by Democrat “fearmongering and dishonesty."