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The parents of Natalee Holloway, the American teenager who disappeared in Aruba in 2005, say their ordeal hasn't ended with a judge declaring their daughter dead. They hope a young Dutchman seen leaving a bar with Holloway on the last day she was seen alive might ultimately be brought before a U.S. court.
Two longtime Alabama school board leaders are defending the panel's decision in 1993 to reinstate an elementary school teacher who was accused of molesting a student, even though the teacher is now charged with more abuse.
Alabama's governor said Friday he's working to clarify and simplify Alabama's tough immigration law, which critics say has damaged the state's international reputation and caused hardships for legal residents.
An Alabama teacher who accepts a Christmas ham or a $25 gift card from a student is breaking Alabama's ethics law. The possible penalty? Up to a year in jail and a $6,000 fine for the teacher who accepts the gift.
The mother of a postal employee accused of firing gunshots inside the main post office in Alabama's capital city says her son belongs in a psychiatric facility and not in the county jail.
Google Inc. went far from its California headquarters to make an Alabama city its model in a new campaign to help businesses build better websites for mobile devices. The alliteration, Mobilizing Mobile, was simply too good to pass up.
Alabama's attorney general is questioning the U.S. Justice Department's legal authority to get enrollment information about all students in many Alabama school districts as part of its federal lawsuit challenging the state's tough new immigration law.
The epicenter of the fight over the nation's patchwork of immigration laws is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdowns.
The judge who presided over Alabama's gambling corruption trial says two of the prosecution's key witnesses demonstrated "a deep-seated racial animus" and a desire to suppress black voter turnout when they helped the FBI investigate claims of Statehouse vote buying.
Alabama's strict new immigration law may be backfiring. Intended to force illegal workers out of jobs, it is also driving away many construction workers, roofers and field hands in the country legally who do backbreaking jobs that Americans generally won't.
As a Republican state senator who secretly recorded conversations for the FBI testified Thursday that he couldn't explain why he called black customers of a casino "aborigines," Alabama's Democrat leader called for his resignation and the Republican Party chairman defended his reputation.
A federal gambling corruption trial at the Alabama Statehouse could look like a country music concert or a political convention rather than a court case.
Casino developer Ronnie Gilley used to turn heads when he strolled through the Alabama Statehouse with country music stars like George Jones and Randy Owen at his side. Now, Gilley's Country Crossing casino is dark and he's headed to prison after he testifies against several influential figures in the state's short-lived casino boom.
Alabama's new governor thought his toughest job was going to be making double-digit spending cuts and deciding which state services to eliminate.
Damage from Alabama's deadly tornadoes could approach the state's record of $2 billion from Hurricane Ivan in 2004, Alabama's insurance commissioner said Wednesday.
In a March 14 story about states delaying their presidential primaries or switching to caucuses, The Associated Press erroneously reported the first name of the sponsor of a bill that would combine California's state and presidential primaries. He is Rep. Paul Fong, not Ben Fong.
Confederate descendants and re-enactors dressed in soldiers' uniforms and hoop skirts marched down the main avenue in Montgomery on Saturday to mark the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
An Alabama legislator said it's time to "empty the clip" when addressing illegal immigration, but he says he wasn't advocating violence.
Mark Twain wrote that "the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." A new edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" will try to find out if that holds true by replacing the N-word with "slave" in an effort not to offend readers.
The lobbyist for a shuttered Alabama casino has admitted his firm offered millions to legislators in exchange for support for pro-gambling legislation.
A former Alabama state trooper who recently pleaded guilty to the civil rights-era killing of a black man says he fears he could be attacked by other inmates after he begins his jail sentence on Wednesday.
A former state trooper took a plea deal Monday in the 1965 slaying of a black man that prompted the "Bloody Sunday" march at Selma and helped galvanize America's civil rights movement.
State employees who relied on a deferred compensation plan from Nationwide Retirement Solutions will receive $16 million in a settlement of lawsuits over millions in fees that were paid to a lobbying group for state workers.
After the governor began raiding the state's electronic bingo halls, casino owners sent lobbyists to the Capitol with orders to make their Vegas-style parlors legal. Part of the plan, federal authorities said Monday, was to offer lawmakers millions of dollars in bribes.
The state's growing list of aviation and aerospace companies added another name Wednesday, when Ohio-based GE Aviation announced plans to build a coatings plant for military jet engines within three months.
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