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By Roy S. Johnson, Columnist and Director of Content Development for the Alabama Media Group/AL.com, the largest news and information site in Alabama. (CORRECTION: The article previously incorrectly identified the winner of the 2022 Magic […]

By AL.com staff The shooting at a birthday party in Dadeville on Saturday night that left four dead and as many as 20 injured is the latest among nine dozen mass shootings in Alabama since 2013, according to […]

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes Vice President Kamala Harris made a last-minute trip Friday to Tennessee where she called for tougher firearm laws and criticized the Republican- controlled state House, which a day earlier expelled two Black […]

SOURCE: Sharon Boclair, Media Correspondent; PHOTO CREDIT: OJ Rice Photography Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Epsilon Gamma Omega Chapter hosted their 64th Debutante Presentation and Ball on Friday, February 17, 2023 at the Von Braun […]

By Ruth Serven Smith Medicaid coverage will end for millions of Americans in the coming months, and it will push many into unfamiliar territory: the health insurance marketplace. States will start cutting people from the government-funded […]

By Kyle Whitmire This is an opinion column. When Kay Ivey first ran for governor, she campaigned with folksy ads in which she said cutely cryptic things. “There’s no step too high for a high-stepper,” Ivey […]

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes The Alabama House Democratic caucus today announced its agenda for the 2023 session, a platform that includes proposals on taxes, education, healthcare, voting, and criminal justice. The caucus proposes exempting groceries from the state’s […]

By Savannah Tryens-Fernandes Marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma today to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 that white police beat Black civil rights marchers as they attempted […]

By Lee Roop Black History Month peaks in Huntsville over the next several days with free performances on the life and legacy of Dred Scott, the former Madison County slave whose fight for freedom after […]

By Michelle Matthews Just a few years ago, Vanessa Tucker had no idea what “autism” meant – or how it would shape her family’s future. Vanessa and her husband, Joaquin, knew their firstborn son, Julian, […]