Auburn Rises to No. 9 in latest Basketball Rankings.
Bryce Young adds AP All-American to his resume’.
DeVonta Smith of Alabama is The Associated Press college football player of the year. He is the first wide receiver to win the award since it was established in 1998. Smith received 26 first-place votes and 114 points to finish ahead of his teammate and quarterback, Mac Jones. Jones received nine first-place votes and 67 points. They are the first…
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON—All the bill needed to become law was President Donald Trump’s signature. It would create a national archive of documents from civil rights cold cases. Students had been working on the project for years, families waiting on it for decades. But time was running out. Legislation dies in the transition from one session of…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Political news and a major economic development announcement were among the state’s top stories of 2018. U.S. Sen. Doug Jones took office after becoming the first Alabama Democrat elected to the Senate in a quarter-century. However, Democrats’ hopes for additional gains were crushed by a GOP sweep in state elections. Toyota and Mazda selected Huntsville as…
A major AP story praises Alabama for preserving Civil Rights sites, while calling on other states to follow suite. Not all states and cities are letting time bury memories of their civil rights sites. In Alabama, for example, tourism officials invite visitors to experience such places as the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium, where Gov. George Wallace stood at…
Ku Klux Klan members parade in Washington, D.C., during the 1920s, a decade in which Klan membership grew into the millions and the group exerted significant political influence. Library of Congress. By JAY REEVES Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – The Ku Klux Klan is trying to make a comeback and reshape itself for a new era. The white supremacist…
Hillary Clinton has commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, and will be first woman to top the ticket of a major U.S. political party. An Associated Press count of pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses and a survey of party insiders known as super delegates shows Clinton with the…
