For the first time since it passed two years ago, lawmakers are looking at changing the Alabama Accountability Act. The law gives parents a tax credit for transferring their kids from failing to non-failing public and private schools.
When Alabama State University was awarded the Montgomery Interpretive Center over the City of St. Jude, officials with the historic site decided to build their own memorial center.
It's a service many people count on when there's an emergency, but Bullock County could lose its only ambulance service.
Seven Marines and four soldiers aboard an Army helicopter that crashed over waters off Florida during a routine night training mission were presumed dead Wednesday, and crews found human remains despite heavy fog hampering search efforts, military officials said. …
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State prosecutors say indicted House Speaker Mike Hubbard shouldn't complain about emails and other evidence being made public in his ongoing ethics case.
About 80 thousand people poured into Selma over the weekend to commemorate 'Bloody Sunday.'
The Alabama Senate has approved a charter school bill that Republicans named a top priority for the session.
The city of Wetumpka is hoping the third time is the charm. There's a bill going through the state house to bring Sunday sales and draft beer to the town, but it's failed twice before.
Two members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity at the University of Oklahoma are now expelled after video of them leading a racist chant went viral.
Marchers reenacting the historic Selma to Montgomery march are sleeping at a church in Montgomery tonight after walking 12 miles today.
A nonprofit campaign called "Women on 20's", is trying to put the face of a woman on the $20 bill by 2020.
We are less than a week away from Montgomery's first ever full marathon. But there's still a lot of work to be done to get ready.
The march follows a weekend when organizers say about 80,000 people filled the streets of Selma. While the events went fairly smoothly. There were still some obstacles in the way.
Some big name faces were in the crowd Saturday as President Barrack Obama gave his speech for the 50th anniversary events.
Everyone in Selma wanted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge yesterday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
An estimated 70,000-80,000 people were in Selma for the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, cramming onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
This is the full speech that Rev. Al Sharpton delivered at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma on Bloody Sunday.
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From the West Alabama Newsroom-- A big day of events kicked off early Sunday morning with the annual Unity breakfast -- then it was off to church.
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- The annual Jubilee Parade and Festival provided a little fun for all the people who made the journey to Selma to take part in the 50th celebration.
Martin Luther King III honored activists who were central to the voting rights movement, but said he can't call the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday a celebration.
One hundred and one Members of Congress started out the 15th annual Civil Rights Pilgrimage and came to Montgomery Sunday, which played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement.
