CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — A new nonprofit aimed at recognizing young women for their volunteer spirit will hold its first-ever statewide pageant next week at Wallace State Community College.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Look up in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a ... beard?

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a 3-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in an unincorporated community in Alabama.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — More than half of Alabama elementary school teachers are now trained in the science of reading, and the state is seeing major increases in summer learning participation, according to a recent report by the Alabama Reading Initiative.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — An Alabama man was convicted Friday of killing three people in southwestern Illinois during a multistate crime spree.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former Clarke County Sheriff William Ray Norris, who resigned last year during an impeachment probe, was indicted on ethics and campaign finance charges, prosecutors said Friday.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A record number of children are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Alabama, health officials said Friday as the state's largest public school district prepared to switch to virtual classes because so many staffers are out.

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — The engineering dean at Auburn University is the lone remaining finalist to become president after two other candidates refused to visit campus unless they were guaranteed the job, the school said Friday.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A man's remains were found eight feet under an abandoned home in Alabama and likely were there more than two years, authorities said.

ATLANTA (AP) — Residents of several southern states are bracing for the possibility of snow and ice as a winter storm moves into the region.

LINCOLN, Ala. (AP) — Human remains found almost a decade ago at an abandoned house near Talladega Superspeedway during a race weekend have been identified as those of a Georgia woman, officials said Thursday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers, attempting to decide how to spend more than $500 million in pandemic relief funds, on Thursday generally agreed on funding broadband and water and sewer projects but disagreed about whether to steer some money to state parks.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Huntsville police officer charged with capital murder in the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend from Georgia no longer works for the department, where he spent more than two years, the chief said Thursday.

COFFEEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A boat sunk in a lock on the Tombigbee River in southwest Alabama, temporarily blocking the passage until crews can remove it.

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Two workers were injured when part of a building collapsed at the Alabama School for the Deaf, raining down bricks and other material, authorities said.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal inmate who pleaded guilty to assaulting a prison guard has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison, federal authorities said.

Dothan Eagle. January 11, 2022.

HUEYTOWN, Ala. (AP) — A 2-year-old Alabama boy who found a relative's handgun died after shooting himself, authorities said.

CLEVELAND, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama deputy was injured and a man was shot by officers as authorities attempted to arrest a suspect wanted for making threats, state police said.

Text of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's State of the State address. Remarks as prepared.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama police officer charged with capital murder in the shooting of his pregnant girlfriend has asked a judge to bar the public from seeing any written documents or attending hearings about the case.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States.

McKENZIE, Ala. (AP) — Two weak tornadoes caused the scattered damage that was left in south Alabama by storms that moved through Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A man awaiting a state trial in the 2018 death of an Alabama police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday on federal weapons charges.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A Huntsville police officer was charged with capital murder and jailed without bond in the off-duty killing of his pregnant girlfriend, who was shot to death in a car, court records showed Monday.

MANY, La. (AP) — A suspected tornado destroyed a mobile home and injured five members of a family in rural northwest Louisiana on Sunday, authorities said.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers say there may be a special session on how to spend the state's remaining pandemic relief funds.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama authorities say gunfire that left a 49-year-old man dead in Birmingham also killed a 16-year-old girl who was in a passing car.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A longtime employee of the nation's space agency has been named associate director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Ashley Monique knows brokenness takes many forms, and cuts deep into places others can’t always see. After all, she has lived it.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama officials say federal rules do not appear to block the state’s plan to use $400 million in pandemic relief funds to build prisons, although the U.S. Treasury Department document states that new prisons are generally not an eligible use of the money.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Its tourism workforce depleted since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Alabama will spend $1 million to prepare as many as 2,000 students to work in its hospitality industry.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Supreme Court rejected the appeal Friday of a one-time campus security officer convicted of reckless manslaugher in the death of his wife, an online adult model whose body was found outside their suburban home.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A deer killed in northwest Alabama was infected with chronic wasting disease in the first confirmed case of the illness in the state, game officials said Friday.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former Books-A-Million executive Lew Burdette, who now heads a nonprofit that provides shelters and group homes for abused women and children, announced Tuesday that he is running for governor of Alabama against fellow Republican Gov. Kay Ivey.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala (AP) — Frigid temperatures and minor icing were reported in north Alabama on Friday, but the region avoided widespread problems from a second round of wintry precipitation in a week.

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — A chemical manufacturing company faces more than $230,000 in fines after a federal investigation found exposure to toxic chemicals led to the deaths of two employees and sickened another last summer.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman and her 8-year-old son were victims early Thursday of a double murder-suicide, authorities said.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Schools shut down or switched to online classes Thursday and road crews got ready for a bitter blast as forecasters said north Alabama was in store for frigid temperatures and a second round of frozen precipitation this week.

PLAQUEMINE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana 17-year-old was shot to death as he slept on a couch at his parents’ home, and a 14-year-old is accused.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republicans in the Alabama House of Representatives said Wednesday that abolishing the permit requirement to carry a concealed handgun will be among their top priorities in the upcoming legislative session.

Dothan Eagle. January 4, 2021.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s state health officer on Tuesday said the highly infectious omicron variant of COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire in Alabama as the state sets record numbers for cases.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Businesswoman Jessica Taylor dropped out of Alabama's U.S. Senate race Tuesday and threw her support behind Mike Durant in the Republican primary.