Alabama News

State health and school officials are gearing up to distribute thousands of doses of nasal mist H1N1 vaccines to students across the state, a pair of state officers announced during a Nov.

ANNISTON - Before he could say "mama" or "daddy," both of his were gone. His father went to prison for murder.

A man who hit three bicyclists with his BMW in Fairhope in August has pleaded guilty to drunken driving and three counts of third-degree assault.

State troopers say a three-car wreck left four people injured at an intersection near a new school site near Athens where education officials have been trying to get a traffic light approved.

The Alabama Supreme Court says a woman who thought she had hit a jackpot worth almost $42 million at the Victoryland electronic bingo center will end up empty handed.

Times Business Writer marian.accardi@htimes.com Metro area reports lowest figure in state last month Madison County's jobless rate for October was 7.5 percent, unchanged from September, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations.

The Alabama Supreme Court says a woman who thought she had hit a jackpot worth almost $42 million at the Victoryland electronic bingo center will end up empty handed.

Jesse Jackson is no longer being critical of Rep. Artur Davis of Birmingham for voting against a health care overhaul bill in the House.

Clyde No. 60, won't get the chop-chop, Gov. Bob Riley says. Gov. Bob Riley pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey on Friday as part of an annual tradition in Alabama that dates back to 1949.

The University of South Alabama's top student leader is being accused of failure to perform his duties.

U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith, D-Alabama, condemned on Wednesday the panel recommending that women delay a first mammogram until age 50 and get checkup every two years rather than annually.

An undercover officer posing as a prostitute in Alabama tried more than once to run off a 13-year-old boy who asked her for sex, but police say the teen insisted and had to be arrested.

Former federal prosecutor Michel Nicrosi says she plans to run for Alabama attorney general as a Democrat.

The six circuit judges in Montgomery County have disqualified themselves from hearing a lawsuit filed by a legislative oversight committee seeking to stop a $13 million no-bid computer contract.

MONTGOMERY a ' Permission forms will go out this week for parents of children in kindergarten through age 9 to sign if they want their children vaccinated against H1N1 influenza at a school vaccination clinic.

A leading slot machine vendor and management company took aim at Alabama's fledging charity bingo operators during the casino industry's largest trade show and a meeting of hundreds of casino professionals in Las Vegas this week.

The family of the Barrington man serving as captain of the Maersk Alabama was relieved to learn Wednesday that Paul M. Rochford is safe after an attack on the ship earlier in the day by Somali pirates .

The U.S.-flagged cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama arrives in Mombasa, Kenya, in this Saturday April 11 2009, file photo, after the ship was attacked by Somali pirates firing automatic weapons Wednesday but its unarmed crew locked themselves in a secure room.

Alabama corrections officials say a work release inmate who escaped from the Decatur center has been found in Tennessee but is refusing to sign an extradition waiver.

Attorney General Troy King is seeking input from district attorneys as he weighs an Alabama Supreme Court ruling on electronic bingo machines in the state.