Sweet Home Alabama
- Opinion - Donald Trump has slipped over the edgewww.alreporter.com Opinion | Donald Trump has slipped over the edge. Stop supporting him
The former president has demonstrated repeatedly that he's hateful, vengeful and absolutely crazy.
- Court grants state's request to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxiawww.al.com Court grants state's request to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia
Smith, convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County in 1988, would be the first inmate to die by nitrogen hypoxia.
- Alabama in billion-dollar showdown with EPAwww.al.com Alabama in billion-dollar showdown with EPA
Can Alabama leave its 100 million tons of coal ash in unlined ponds along rivers, or will the state be forced to dig them out?
- Child critically injured with woman, infant in hit-and-run while trick-or-treating in Crestwoodwww.al.com Child critically injured with woman, infant in hit-and-run while trick-or-treating in Crestwood
Residents said the area was so packed with trick-or-treaters that the ambulances had a hard time getting through.
- New homeowners find dead Alabama teen in freezer in backyard, parents arrestedwww.al.com New homeowners find dead Alabama teen in freezer in backyard, parents arrested
He may have died as early as July or August. The new owners of the home saw a hand in the freezer and immediately called 911.
- Elmore County mother battles court, grandparents’ rights bill to protect kidswww.alreporter.com Elmore County mother battles court, grandparents’ rights bill to protect kids
An Elmore County judge is forcing a child into visitations with a family member under investigation for sexually assaulting her.
- Opinion | Alabama Republicans are trying to stop you from voting — againwww.alreporter.com Opinion | Alabama Republicans are trying to stop you from voting — again
Alabama Republicans have another bill to criminalize assisting someone with an absentee ballot, because they're scared of high voter turnout
- Execution date set for Alabama man convicted in 1993 shooting, robberywww.al.com Execution date set for Alabama man convicted in 1993 shooting, robbery
Casey A. McWhorter is set to die for the 1993 shooting death of Edward Lee Williams. He has been on Alabama Death Row since 1994, after a jury voted 10-2 for him to be executed.
- Mother ‘mad and heartbroken’ with video of Mobile cop slamming daughter to groundwww.al.com Mother ‘mad and heartbroken’ with video of Mobile cop slamming daughter to ground
The girl is a student at Accel Academy and was being sent home for going to the restroom without permission.
- NASA in Alabama honored for role deflecting an asteroidwww.al.com NASA in Alabama honored for role deflecting an asteroid
Two NASA scientists in Huntsville accepted a top agency award this week for leading a team that deflected a moving asteroid in what could be a preview of an Earth-saving space maneuver.
- An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail showerwww.theguardian.com An Alabama woman was imprisoned for ‘endangering’ her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower
Exclusive: Ashley Caswell, one of a growing number of jailed pregnant women in Etowah county, is suing officials after she was denied care
- Alabama lawmakers set to receive pay raisewww.alreporter.com Alabama lawmakers set to receive pay raise
Thanks to a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2012, lawmakers' salaries are tied to median income levels.
Interesting article about the incongruity between lawmaker pay raises and other public workers.
- Equal Justice Initiative park will memorialize emancipated slaveswww.al.com Equal Justice Initiative park will memorialize emancipated slaves
The EJI said the 17-acre park will include a 43-foot tall, 150-long National Monument to Freedom.
- Alabama lawmaker’s dumbest idea is now mainstream American politicswww.al.com Alabama lawmaker’s dumbest idea is now mainstream American politics
The future is Gerald Allen
> In 2004, Allen introduced legislation to pull books with LGBTQ characters, themes and authors from school libraries, and it was this bill that set the tone for his political career.
> When asked what should be done with the books, Allen said he didn’t think they should be burned, necessarily.
> “I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them,” he said at the time.
> Friends had to quietly explain that Allen’s bill would ban, along with works such as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “The Color Purple,” a little best-seller called “The Holy Bible.”
- Decatur councilman calls for firing of officer who killed Stephen Perkins, ouster of chiefwww.al.com Decatur councilman calls for firing of officer who killed Stephen Perkins, ouster of chief
Ten days after police shot and killed Stephen Perkins on his front yard, a Decatur councilman has called for the firing of the police chief and the officer involved in the shooting.
- Florence man wins 650-mile kayak race across Alabamawww.al.com Florence man wins 650-mile kayak race across Alabama
Trey Reaves is the first Alabama man to win The Great Alabama 650.
- Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’www.al.com Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’
Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the ...
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> Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.
- In police shooting, Decatur police, city officials have some explaining to dowww.alreporter.com In police shooting, Decatur police, city officials have some explaining to do
Videos of the shooting by Decatur police of Stephen Perkins have raised questions that need to be answered truthfully.
> Watch the videos and listen to the audio. A couple of seconds after Perkins yells for the tow truck driver to put the truck down, there is a shout that comes from the area behind Perkins’ truck. It sounds an awful lot like, “Hey! Police!” And immediately, shots were fired at Perkins. Eighteen of them in all, by my count.
- Alabama Is Ordered to Use Congressional Map That Likely Flips Seat to Democratswww.nytimes.com Alabama Is Ordered to Use Map With Two Districts That Empower Black Voters
The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, and may lead to the election of two Black representatives for the first time in the state’s history.
- Opinion | Alabama’s kids face lots of problems. Libraries aren’t one.www.alreporter.com Opinion | Alabama’s kids face lots of problems. Libraries aren’t one.
Our elected leaders keep focusing on phony issues because they have no idea how to solve the real ones.
> There’s a five-alarm fire raging among the kids in this state and our elected officials, from the top on down, are out back peeing on a brush fire. And missing.
- Gov. Ivey requests changes to Alabama libraries; state money ‘contingent’ on new policieswww.al.com Gov. Ivey requests changes to Alabama libraries; state money ‘contingent’ on new policies
Gov. Kay Ivey, in a response to a letter from Alabama Public Library Service director Nancy Pack, suggests changes be made to library rules to "limit children's access to inappropriate content."
- How did Alabama House members vote on shutdown impasse?www.al.com How did Alabama House members vote on shutdown impasse?
Today's vote by Alabama’s seven-member congressional delegation also reflects the national bipartisan action.
> Four of Alabama’s members of the House of Representatives voted yes to the resolution while three others voted no. Voting yes were Reps. Jerry Carl, R-Mobile, Mike Rogers, R- Saks, Dale Strong, R-Huntsville, and Terri A. Sewell D-Birmingham.
> On the no side were Reps. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, Barry Moore, R-Enterprise, and Gary Palmer, R-Hoover.
- Supreme Court declines to hear Toforest Johnson casewww.alreporter.com Supreme Court declines to hear Toforest Johnson case
Johnson now must try to convince state and lower federal courts to overturn his questionable murder conviction.
> Johnson’s conviction for the killing of off-duty sheriff’s deputy William Hardy rested almost entirely on the “earwitness” testimony of a woman who claimed to be on a three-way call with Johnson and heard him confess to the killing. The woman had never met Johnson nor heard his voice, and Johnson’s attorneys, after the trial, learned that the woman had been paid $5,000 for her testimony. No physical evidence linking Johnson to the murder exists.
- Federal court to hear arguments over state’s proposed congressional voting mapswww.alreporter.com Federal court to hear arguments over state’s proposed congressional voting maps
The three-judge panel will hear objections from a variety of parties who are unhappy with the three proposed maps.
> A federal court in Birmingham on Tuesday will hear arguments on which of three proposed congressional voting maps should be implemented for the 2024 election cycle.
- Opinion | The bigots are winning because of the cowardswww.alreporter.com Opinion | The bigots are winning because of the cowards
Our elected leaders have an opportunity to turn back the bigotry driving attacks on libraries and schools. Instead, they're encouraging it.
>The only way bigotry can spread is by good and decent people refusing to push back against it.
- Why the pride in your struggle?
Why do Alabamians feel pride in struggling? The poor rally behind this idea that being poor and poorly educated is a badge of honor and it makes no sense. You guys don't really seem to ever question whether or not your values and beliefs are doing anything for the objectively awful lives you live.
Yes I know it isn't every one of you, but the people in charge are somehow able to keep hold of y'all.
Discuss.
- Fertility Casewww.al.com Case before Alabama Supreme Court could shut down fertility clinics, medical group warns
Justices on the Alabama Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a wrongful death case filed against a south Alabama fertility clinic over the destruction of in vitro embryos.
- Interstate Projectswww.al.com I-65 to be widened from Alabaster to Calera: Ivey announces $500 million Birmingham area interstate projects
Other projects include a new I-459 interchange in Hoover and the widening of I-59 near Trussville.
More years of I-65 construction.
- Kyle Whitemire Concernwww.al.com Whitmire: After lawmaker’s arrest, Alabama House Speaker is full of … concern
Lawmakers knew the facts of the case for months.
- 21 Companies in Charge of Alabama's Medical Marijuanaaldailynews.com Who are they? The 21 companies selected for medical marijuana
In a highly anticipated meeting this week, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission selected 21 companies for licenses to produce and distribute medical marijuana products.
