
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that administration officials are discussing whether to reach out to a Florida pastor to urge him not to go forward with plans to burn the Koran this weekend. Rev. Terry Jones, whom...

Death row inmate Holly Wood is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at Holman Prison in Atmore. The execution of the 50-year-old Wood is to be at 6 p.m. Thursday for the Sept. 1, 1993 shotgun slaying of his...

Construction along Madison Avenue in Montgomery seems to be driving some business owners mad. The city has been working to fix broken sidewalks, uneven driveways and preparing green spaces to plant trees for the past three months. The problem is,...

“I go to work. I deserved to get paid,” shouted one employee of JAT Bureau of Protective Services from the streets of Downtown Montgomery Wednesday night after saying he and dozens of his co-workers had not been paid for weeks, if not months, of...

There are new questions about whether Victoryland will be raided. A Macon County judge has lifted his order banning a raid of electronic bingo machines. Electronic bingo machines remain off limits to customers after Victoryland voluntarily shut down the machines over...

Attorney General Troy King and members of his staff have met with lawyers for BP to discuss the lawsuit King filed against the company for tax revenue lost by the state because of the massive oil spill in the Gulf...

The lead BP investigator is saying that eight separate failures had to occur for the company’s deepwater well to unleash the largest offshore oil spill in history. At a briefing in Washington Wednesday on BP’s internal investigation, Mark Bly, the...

A Macon County judge has removed his temporary restraining order that kept the Governor’s Task Force on Illegal Gambling from raiding VictoryLand’s closed electronic bingo casino in Shorter. Circuit Judge Tom Young removed the order Tuesday because the Alabama Supreme...

Investigators are looking into a firebomb explosion and the death of an 81-year-old man in a Decatur apartment. Huntsville TV station WAFF reports that Decatur police say the blast in a third-floor room at the Summer Manor Apartments apparently killed...