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The House of Representatives adjourned for the week on Thursday, stopping just short of holding a vote on legislation by State Rep. Mack Butler (R-Rainbow City) banning instruction and discussion related to gender identity or sexual orientation in public K-12 classrooms.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated, "President Trump is the Commander in Chief. Get on board with the mission, or get out."

A Gadsden woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday.

Artemio Garcia Perez, 20, was arrested by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Thursday while attempting to flee the country. 

An Athens Police car was likely totaled after a truck went airborne and crashed into it on Thursday.

Hoover City Council president pro-tempore Curt Posey will not seek reelection for a third term.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) joined other House Democrats to introduce the Stopping a Rogue President on Trade Act on Thursday, a bill that would reverse tariffs placed on foreign countries by President Donald Trump.

An approximately $10 billion Education Trust Fund (ETF) budget for fiscal year 2026 passed the Senate unanimously on Thursday.

New details have been released following the arrest of a Dothan man accused of sending envelopes containing child pornography to lawmakers at the Alabama State House in Montgomery on Wednesday.

The Alabama House of Representatives advanced legislation on Thursday, allowing the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) board to regulate consumable hemp products by licensing distributors and wholesalers.

Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon is hopeful for change after conversations with Alabama Law Enforcement Agency secretary Hal Taylor over the alleged actions of Marine Patrol Division troopers along the Gulf Coast.

State Department of Education Superintendent Eric Mackey went on FNC's "Fox & Friends" on Thursday to discuss the program that allows high school students specializing in a trade to swap some math or science courses for Career Technical Education courses.

The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) voted on Thursday to approve a contract extension and $80,000 salary increase for State Superintendent Eric Mackey, down $55,000 from the board’s initial proposal.

In a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business Network's "Kudlow," U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) went to bat for President Donald Trump in his tariff war on China.

A nine-year-old Guatemalan boy was rescued from a home in Baldwin County as FBI Mobile agents were searching for another child.

The FBI Mobile announced that nine of 10 subjects suspected in the Operation Jamaican Knights fraudulent lottery investigation have been taken into custody.

The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, Border Patrol agents and others gathered Thursday in Mobile to discuss details on the administrative arrests of six members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua gang and two of their associates.

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth said on Thursday that legislation allowing public school students to participate in off-campus religious and character instruction during school hours has his “full,100%, committed support."

The Alabama House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday after nearly three hours of debate, allowing the Alabama Farmers Federation (ALFA) to begin offering health plans to its members.

At last week's Alabama Republican Party event featuring Donald Trump Jr., chairman John Wahl honored lawmakers who sponsored several of the most conservative bills passed during the 2024 legislative session.

A bill to re-open Mobile's Big Creek Lake advanced in a House committee and heads for the full House. A companion bill is moving in the Senate.

After weeks of debate and negotiation, the House Education Policy Committee advanced legislation mandating the placement of the Ten Commandments in Alabama’s schools.

After weeks of unease in Baldwin County, Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft accused the county school system of conducting a "deliberate misinformation campaign" regarding bills to change the origin or distribution of a portion of a one-cent sales tax.

The House Education Policy Committee advanced amended legislation on Wednesday banning instruction or discussion related to gender identity or sexual orientation from being provided to public school students in pre-K through the 12th grade.  

In late September 2020, just months after the violent Black Lives Matter protest in Birmingham, Samford University announced “New Courses Will Address African American Experience, Race in Popular Media.”

The Alabama Senate delayed a vote on bills by State Sen. Clyde Chambliss (R-Prattville) on Wednesday that would’ve added an explicit content filter and age verification requirements on smartphones for minors.