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Gambling and the lottery may be dead for the 2025 regular session, but it's likely an issue current and future lawmakers will have to contend with again. In the past two public events, GOP candidates for House District 11 Heath Allbright and Don Fallin strongly opposed expanding gambling and adding a state lottery.

No. 12 Alabama fell behind early, but a six-run sixth inning helped to propel the Crimson Tide to a 10-6 win over No. 23 Southern Mississippi.

Trailing 7-6 in at the start of the eighth inning after the Yellow Jackets put up a five-spot in the sixth inning to take control, No. 11 Auburn struck for three runs to regain its early lead and take down No. 18 Georgia Tech 9-8 on Tuesday night at Russ Chandler Stadium. 

At the end of the deadline, the state of Alabama received nearly 37,000 students applying for its school choice program, the Creating Hope and Opportunity for Our Students' Education (CHOOSE) Act.

The fiancée of Alireza Doroudi, a University of Alabama mechanical engineering doctoral student arrested by ICE in March, said on Monday that the incident “has pushed us past our limits.”

Tallapoosa Circuit Judge Steve Perryman ordered criminal term dates for the six suspects charged in the April 15, 2023, Sweet 16 party shooting in Dadeville.

Legendary former Alabama football coach won seven national championships, the most by any college football coach, and after just one year at ESPN, he is already getting Emmy nominations.

The man authorities say shot his wife, their two children and his niece and nephew last July has been indicted on five capital murder charges.

As with many Hoover City Council meetings held over the past year, the hour-and-a-half-long discussion included several heated exchanges, interruptions and accusations of failed leadership.

The shelves that many of us roamed as children no longer contain wholesome stories; instead, they often contain pornographic and sexual deviant material that many teachers, librarians, and public figures think children should have the right to see.

Whether by facilitating trade deals, fostering diplomatic relationships, or promoting American values abroad, international engagement is essential for keeping our state’s industries competitive on the global stage. 

The Alabama Republican Assembly is holding an open meeting on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Rotunda at the American Village in Montevallo to discuss and plan for Alabama’s upcoming 2025 and 2026 elections.

While President Donald Trump has deployed every means possible to diminish and shrink the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore has now taken the first step toward gaining the congressional support needed to totally and completely abolish the agency.

Former Alabama workforce official Lori Frazier Beaden has been appointed by President Trump to top workforce development post.

Right as the storm of change thunders on the horizon, and right as Alabama is actually ahead of the curve on a good idea, Ledbetter wants the government’s cut of workers’ wages back. 

Mobile water board approves plan to partially reopen Big Creek Lake. Sportsmen say "not enough."

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a man in connection to the rape of a child under 14.

The Blount County Sheriff’s Office arrested the parents of a four-year-old boy who was shot and injured in the arm and leg on April 4.

Newly filed legislation by State Rep. Ernie Yarbrough (R-Trinity) to punish abortion as murder in the state of Alabama comes amidst a wave of similar bills gaining momentum in multiple states nationwide.

Support for President Donald Trump came flooding in on Monday from Alabama's leaders after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president can use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport suspected members of a Venezuelan criminal gang.

According to Alabama Public Library Service Board chairman John Wahl, Department of Government Efficiency cuts to library federal grants haven’t affected Alabama libraries so far.

The Senate passed legislation legalizing historical horse racing gambling machines in Greene County on Thursday by a 14-1 margin.

Speculations of where Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe will be taken in this year’s draft have risen to an all-time high after some big news broke on X Sunday afternoon.

The almost-90-year-old Chuck Wagon Gang brings their Christian music to Andalusia for a free concert Thursday, April 10.

You can’t truly love what you don’t know. Ignorance of the American past means that patriotism, the love for one’s country, will disappear, which in turn transforms that country into a hollow shell of its former self.

The Trump administration canceled a $1.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) last week.

Following the publication of an 1819 news story that detailed Kay Ivey appointee Will Ferniany's comparison of President Trump's administration to Nazi Germany, the release naming him was edited to remove and replace his name.