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Demonstrators gather at Alabama State House to demand IVF protections
Demonstrators gathered at the Alabama State House on Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to pass a pair of bills protecting in vitro fertilization providers and patients.
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Patients urge Alabama lawmakers to restore IVF services in the state
More than 200 in vitro fertilization patients have gathered at the Alabama Statehouse to urge lawmakers to find some way to restore IVF services in the state.
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Alabama lawmakers scramble to protect IVF after backlash over state Supreme Court ruling
“At the end of the day, the Republican Party has to be responsible for what they have done,” said Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, a Democrat
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Alabama judge critically injured after allegedly being shot by son
A Montgomery, Alabama, judge is in critical condition after he was allegedly shot Saturday by his own son, who was convicted in 2014 for shooting someone else, authorities said, according to NBC News.
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She needs a surrogate to have a baby. After Alabama's IVF ruling, her embryo transfer was canceled
Meghan Cole was looking forward to Friday this week because her surrogate was finally scheduled for an embryo transfer. Then she received “devastating” news.
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Alabama IVF ruling: What it means for fertility treatments
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that couples who were trying in vitro fertilization and lost frozen embryos in an accident at a south Alabama storage facility can sue under the state’s wrongful death law.
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University of Alabama at Birmingham pauses IVF services after court rules that embryos are children
The Alabama Supreme Court decision has left providers and patients unsure of whether in vitro fertilization carries legal penalties in the state.
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Federal court says Alabama can carry out first nitrogen gas execution; Supreme Court appeal expected
Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, refusing to block what would be the nation’s first execution by a new method since 1982.
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Prisoners' bodies returned to families with missing heart and other organs, lawsuit alleges
an attorney representing one of the families said Wednesday that the experience of multiple families shows this is “absolutely part of a pattern”
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Alabama students chant ‘Anyone but Dabo' after Nick Saban's retirement
It looks like some Crimson Tide students know who they don’t want replacing Nick Saban as the next Alabama head coach.
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Lawsuit challenges Alabama inmate labor system as ‘modern day slavery'
Current and former inmates of the Alabama prison system have filed a lawsuit challenging the prison labor program.
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Alabama Mayor fires 3 officers over fatal shooting of man during truck repossession
The shooting of Steve Perkins, 39, outside his home in Decatur in October remains under criminal investigation by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
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Cellphone video shows Alabama police using stun gun on handcuffed motorist
Cellphone video shows a police officer in Reform, Alabama, using a stun gun on a driver while he was handcuffed.
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Man featured in hit podcast ‘S-Town' shot and killed by police in the town, authorities say
A man who appeared in the hit podcast “S-Town” died after being shot by police during a weekend standoff.
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Alabama community rallies behind mayor who died by suicide following public outing
A small-town Alabama mayor and pastor killed himself after a conservative news site reported he had a social media persona where he dressed in women’s clothing while wearing a wig and makeup.
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Alabama mayor told friends he was facing some ‘dark days' before he died by suicide
A small-town Alabama mayor and preacher told a friend he was facing “dark days” after a conservative news site published stories that alleged he used an online alter ego to post photos of himself in women’s clothing and pictures of community members on an adult website.
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Alabama mayor dies of apparent suicide days after website publishes pictures of him allegedly in women's clothes
A small-town Alabama mayor died apparently by suicide just days after a conservative news site published pictures of him allegedly wearing women’s clothes and makeup, officials said Sunday.
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Alabama couple arrested after 19-year-old son's body found in freezer at their former home
An Alabama couple was arrested after the body of their 19-year-old son was found in a freezer in the backyard of their former home.
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Carlee Russell, Alabama woman who made up kidnapping, is found guilty and plans appeal
Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who made up a story of seeing a toddler by the side of the road and then being kidnapped, was found guilty of misdemeanor counts Wednesday and plans to appeal, a court official said.
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Black voting power gets boost in Alabama as new US House districts chosen by federal judges
Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion of the electorate.