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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, last week after she filed a whistleblower complaint.

During a meeting of the Alabama Legislature's Contract Review Committee last week, House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile) made waves with his criticism of the Ivey administration's West Alabama Corridor project, which, if completed, would make a long-envisioned four-lane route between Mobile and Tuscaloosa a reality.

Alabama should revisit “the conversation about the state’s authority over its capital” after a Saturday night shootout in downtown Montgomery left two dead and fourteen injured, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

Morgan Murphy, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 2026 in Alabama and a former Trump administration official, called on Sunday for the National Guard to be sent to Montgomery, similar to other blue cities across the nation.

Two are dead and 14 are injured after a mass shooting in downtown Montgomery while the City was hosting and funding an HBCU.

A young girl from South Alabama has been rescued and returned home after being kidnapped in September from Orange Beach by her mother and taken to Mexico.

According to reports from Dothan CBS affiliate WTVY's Ken Curtis and Rickey Stokes News, a driver of a car that allegedly struck a motorcycle on Thursday and killed the driver was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In a video message released to the media on Friday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) pulled no punches when discussing the Democrat-led government shutdown, laying the blame for it squarely at the feet of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and his fellow liberals.

Emily Pinon, a pharmacist practicing in Bibb County, sued the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy on Wednesday over new emergency rules they passed in August regulating the profession.

Lawmakers will likely consider Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA)-related legislation in the 2026 session, according to State Sen. Donnie Chesteen (R-Geneva).

A student brought a gun to Montgomery Public Schools’ JAG High School on Thursday.

Karen Lakey, former Motorsports Hall of Fame Commission accounts manager, allegedly stole $236,610 from the commission, according to a recent audit.

An illegal alien was arrested in Summerdale recently on child sex charges.

The next governor of Alabama is "going to shut down" the ongoing U.S. Highway 43-State Highway 69 West Alabama Corridor expansion project, according to House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).

Following the death of three people in a multi-boat crash during a Major League Fishing tournament on Smith Lake, a professional angler from Georgia has now been indicted by a Cullman County grand jury on three counts of manslaughter.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office owes the State of Alabama $4,966,427.69, according to an audit released on Friday.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirms that the agency has cut all ties to Montgomery based Southern Poverty Law Center. "The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine. Their so-called “hate map” has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence," Patel wrote in an X post.

A Huntsville man was arrested earlier this week by authorities with the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Huntsville Police Department's Anti-Crime team after punching an HPD K-9 while being apprehended.

Multibillionaire Elon Musk on Thursday reacted to an 1819 News report that the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center had targeted Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as "hateful" and having an "authoritarian vision for the country that threatens the foundation of our democracy" by accusing the group of inciting his assassination.

Members of the Legislative Council approved an amended rule cracking down on dog deer hunters who allow dogs to roam on private property outside of the Talladega National Forest on Thursday.

A group of Attorneys General from across the country has dispatched a letter to Pamela Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, with the hope of working to correct a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008, striking down state capital punishment laws for child rape.

A $60,000 media booking contract to secure more television, radio, and podcast appearances for Mayor Steven Reed is about “promoting the good things about our city,” according to Reed.

Chad O. Jackson's docuseries, "The MLK Project," premieres October 3 at historev.com.

"This part of Samford is affirming!" is what the poster found hanging on a window in William Self Propst Hall, says, printed with a rainbow background. The door also has a small rainbow flag heart sticker.

Madison Police arrested a man earlier this week after he allegedly struck and bit an officer.

The Rocket City PrideFest is returning for another year to Huntsville's Orion Amphitheater, with event organizers promising a weekend filled with "local drag show royalty and activism."

Is another data center coming to Alabama? It seems likely as a company with ties to Nebius Inc., part of Nebius Group N.V., who already operates several across the U.S. buying over 79 acres in Birmingham.