The legislation allows capital punishment for sexual crimes against children under 12, directly challenging a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision on non-murder offenses.
Lawmakers approved four contracts totalling $800,000 to hire legal representation for Department of Corrections employees in lawsuits alleging brutality.
The Alabama House significantly increased penalties for making terrorist threats, requiring principals to immediately suspend students charged with such crimes.
Congressman Robert Aderholt submitted nominations for six exceptional students across Alabama's 4th District to attend United States Service Academies.
The Alabama Senate passed legislation making child predators eligible for the death penalty and required age filters for inappropriate app store content.
The Surface Transportation Board rejected the initial merger application between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, insisting on a thorough, fact-based review.
Less than two weeks after two inmates died, ADOC Commissioner John Hamm failed to address deadly conditions during the Legislature's prison oversight meeting.
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Report MONTGOMERY—Four-term Republican Legislator Greg Wren from Montgomery has made another appearance before the Attorney General’s Special Grand Jury in Lee...
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Report On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Representative Bradley Byrne (R) from Montrose commented after attending President Obama’s State of...
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Report U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R) from Montgomery responded to President Barack H. Obama’s (D) State of the Union...
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Report On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Representative Bradley Byrne (R) from Montrose announced that he supported the passage of...
Staff Report HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Tuesday, January 28, 2014) — Matt Massey, an educator at Buckhorn High School in New Market, Alabama, announced today that...
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter This session, there are three bills before the Legislature that will cause irrefutable harm to the people of...
By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—A year ago last week, the Alabama Department of Corrections’ Commissioner Kim Thomas stood before a group of...
By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter With Governor Bentley having yesterday declared an effective state of emergency across the entirety of Alabama, one would...