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In a recent interview with Chicago's WGN Radio, U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile) expressed strong disagreement with the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard to cities across America. The move, according to federal officials, has been made to fight high crime rates plaguing many municipalities.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Friday the indictment of Charles Nathan Nickelson, former Huntsville Area Crime Stoppers coordinator and Huntsville police officer.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrests of more than a dozen people in Baldwin and Mobile Counties on Thursday.

A five-year-old child was killed in an overnight house fire.

Following an examination of several books at the Huntsville Madison County Public Library, 1819 News can confirm that multiple works in the children's section were focused on the promotion of transgenderism amongst primary school-aged children.

The Alabama Department of Corrections executed Geoffrey Todd West for the 1997 capital murder of Margaret Parrish Berry on Thursday.

Lawmakers and members of the public criticized the Alabama Board of Pharmacy at a Sunset committee meeting on Thursday for a recent settlement with a former executive secretary.

The Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) announced it intends to release a request for proposal to allow outside concessionaires to run limited boating and fishing operations on Mobile’s Big Creek Lake.

Riley McArdle, chairman of the College Republican Federation of Alabama, penned a letter to University of Alabama President Dr. Peter Mohler on Thursday, calling on the school to terminate any employee who is found to have made mocking public comments regarding the political assassination of conservative political activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

A recent lawsuit filed by Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox would put Alabama’s entire online sales tax program in jeopardy, according to Houston County Commission chairman Brandon Shoupe.

Mobile County Probate Judge C. Mark Erwin is looking into what happened Tuesday at the polls for the municipal runoff election.

A man accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife and her six kids has pleaded guilty to federal charges.

A horse in Coffee County died after contracting rabies.

A Courtland man with a lengthy felony record is facing life in prison after being convicted by a Morgan County jury of trafficking more than 500 grams of methamphetamines.

The Alabama Board of Pharmacy is “universally disliked” by its licensees, according to House Pro-Tem Chris Pringle (R-Mobile). 

The Baldwin County Public Schools Board of Education will consider approval of further discussions regarding the expansion of AltaPointe day school services by establishing a new program at the current Loxley Elementary School.

State Sen. Larry Stutts (R-Tuscumbia), an OB-GYN, is skeptical of recent claims by the Trump administration that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with an increased risk of autism in children. 

State Rep. Donna Givens (R-Loxley) wants to update legislation to strengthen penalties for harassment, stalking and threats against public officials.

Following a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas, Alabama's two U.S. Senators, Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), are offering their prayers for those affected and calling on liberals to cease their attacks on members of law enforcement, particularly immigration authorities.

According to national rankings and review site, Niche, North Alabama's Madison County is currently the seventh best county in the country to live in. The rankings also showed that the county holds the number one spot in Alabama in the same category.

Just weeks after Birmingham podcaster Iva Williams filed an ethics complaint against State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) for paying her brother for campaign services in her race for Birmingham mayor against incumbent Randall Woodfin, the Alabama Ethics Commission informed Givan that the case was “closed.” But that closure isn't the end.

Pike County Sheriff’s Deputies raided a Marathon gas station in Brundidge on Friday following an investigation into illegal gambling activities allegedly happening at the business. 

Oral arguments were held in federal court in the case of Mobile Baykeeper v. Alabama Power Company over coal ash.

The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man in connection to sex abuse and child pornography.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and Antifa have “disturbing ties,” according to Tyler O’Neil, senior editor of The Daily Signal.

Spiro Cheriogotis is projected to win the 2025 mayoral election in Mobile. He spoke Tuesday night after the election results were revealed.

Dozens of people showed up to the polls in Mobile Tuesday in hopes of electing a new mayor. However, a technical issue with electronic poll books, combined with inaccurate voter rolls put a damper on those hopes.