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Taras Kosmirak,35, a Ukrainian war refugee, pleaded guilty this week to attempting to transport a woman in Mobile to Brooklyn, New York, for the purposes of employing the woman as a prostitute.

Fireworks, food, fun and music will be at the USS Alabama Park on Friday, July 4. No ticket required. A charge for parking.

The annual Alabama Blueberry Fest is Saturday, June 21 in downtown Brewton.

The Federal Reserve is holding interest rates steady despite President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for a 2.5-point reduction.

Amy Dozier Minton announced on Thursday she’d pursue the Republican nomination for Senate District 10 in the 2026 election.

Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) chairman John Wahl will resign as chair if he decides to run for lieutenant governor in 2026.

A Collins-Rhodes Elementary teacher charged after a child was hospitalized for alcohol intake is asking the court to amend her bond to allow for a trip to the Bahamas.

David Reed was sworn in as Marshall County Commission chairman on June 11.

Former State Sen. Shadrack McGill was arrested Wednesday in Jackson County.

The resignation letter from Baldwin County Public Schools chief school financial officer offered a more detailed insight into why John Wilson left his post.

Attorney General Steve Marshall is taking a victory lap after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Tennessee law, nearly identical to Alabama’s own law banning so-called gender affirming care for minors

A new LGBTQ group is planning to hold a gay pride parade through downtown Huntsville, right past the public parks and a children’s museum, to “celebrate the Stonewall Riots” of New York in 1969.

A Franklin County man sued an online sweepstakes casino last week.

The man accused in the tragic double fatal crash that killed Hannah Parton and Arlene Velasquez in 2021, is going to trial after four years.

Singer Lightning Lou Christie was popular in Alabama at the Shower of Stars shows of the 1960s. He has died at age 82.

On Thursday, Lieutenant Gov. Will Ainsworth announced that he was supporting U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Auburn) bid to be Alabama’s next governor.

Former Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson passed away unexpectedly Wednesday of a heart condition.

He sings “Poontang on the Pontoon” and “Critter Up my Shitter” but now one of the funniest entertainers on Alabama’s Gulf Coast has his sights set on politics.

Baldwin County Public Schools chief school financial officer John Wilson resigned his position Wednesday morning.

Alabama Republican Party (ALGOP) chairman John Wahl wouldn’t have to resign from his current role with the party to run for lieutenant governor in 2026 if a new proposed rule change is approved by the party’s executive committee.

When Bayou La Batre celebrates it 70th anniversary June 21, it will also name its city park for former Governor George C. Wallace.

On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) questioned and applauded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a committee meeting on national security, budgetary issues and more.

The ABC Board will begin charging a roughly 2% credit card fee to wholesale customers on July 1. 

Questions of Joe Biden’s mental fitness plagued the latter years of his presidency, and U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) said it’s time the American people finally got answers.

City Councilman Hunter Williams took a few minutes at this week's city council meeting to apologize to Birmingham residents and express his concern about the disrespectful actions of a California-based nonprofit now working in and funded by the City of Birmingham.

The Tuscaloosa By-Pass, which spans the Black Warrior River, connecting Tuscaloosa and Northport, serves over 4 million vehicles per day. The mile-long bridge was built in 1998 and it is owned by American Roads, the same company that owned the former Baldwin County Bridge Company in South Alabama.

Dr. JuWan Robinson, a former DEI staffer reassigned after the passing of AL's law preventing state funds from going to DEI programs, lamented “Alabama’s status as a conservative state."