Alabama News

A 14-year-old Alabama girl might have helped arrange the gang rape of her ninth-grade classmate and could face charges as an accomplice based on her comments in a televised interview, a district attorney said.

MOBILE - A University of Alabama alumnus who has been working for the U.S. House ethics committee is the new U.S. attorney for southwest Alabama.

The University of Alabama in Huntsville will require all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus beginning next fall, and that big move away from UAH's traditional commuter-college identity is roiling the campus.

Alabama recently became the last of the 50 states to enact a law allowing pet owners to vaccinate their dogs and cats for rabies every three years rather than an annual shot.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy know the Michael Oher story better than anyone, at least better than anyone other than Michael Oher himself.

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.