Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans ...

The fate of Alabama’s congressional lines and the future of a new seat held by a Black Democrat returns to federal court this ...

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The former Fourth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Michael Jackson is still engaging with the community.This time, he’s not ...

Alabama judges will be required to have written ... she reported for jury duty with her breastfed child. The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday issued the unanimous administrative order stating ...

Several Alabama mothers claimed they were harassed and threatened by Jefferson County judges for bringing breastfeeding ...

The Alabama Supreme Court issued an administrative order that requires Alabama judges to have written procedures excusing breastfeeding mothers from jury duty. Previously, state code did not ...

I think it’s important that this bill is a law because an administrative order can be changed just as quickly as a stroke of ...

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.