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News Articles: alabama

This satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Isaias off the eastern coast of Mexico on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026.

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  • Weather

Tropical storm threat churns planning for Georgia-Alabama game with Trump set to attend

Tropical Storm Isaias could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane this weekend, just before a major college football game between Georgia and Alabama. President Trump plans to attend the game on Saturday night.

October 07, 2026
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By:
  • Associated Press
Festival-goers sit outside Irondale, Alabama's city hall on I Love Irondale Day, July 18, 2026.

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  • Business

A town renamed its festival 'AI Love Irondale Day.' Then came the comments

The online outcry over the renaming of a summer festival illustrates the unease over the data center boom in the South.

July 23, 2026
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By:
  • Stephan Bisaha
The  Supreme Court

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  • Law

The Supreme Court prohibits Alabama from using nitrogen gas for execution

Because of the ruling, Jeffery Lee's execution will be delayed. He still faces the death penalty.

June 12, 2026
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By:
  • Grady Martin and
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court's Alabama redistricting decision could encourage more chaos, experts warn

The court's repudiation of a lower court decision was only the latest case in which it has played a role in changing the congressional maps for Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, and California.

June 03, 2026
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

The Supreme Court reinstates Republican-favored Alabama congressional districts

The ruling means that Alabama's 2026 midterm elections will feature six Republican-leaning districts and one Democratic-leaning one.

June 03, 2026
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By:
  • Grady Martin and
  • Nina Totenberg
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill on June 18, 2024. Britt has taken on a leading role helping negotiate changes to immigration enforcement.

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  • Politics

SNL mocked her as a 'scary mom.' In the Senate, Katie Britt is an emerging dealmaker

Sen. Katie Britt, Republican of Alabama, is a budding bipartisan dealmaker. Her latest assignment: helping negotiate changes to immigration enforcement tactics.

February 27, 2026
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
Shomari Figures, speaking here at the Democratic National Convention on August 22, 2024, would win Alabama's 2nd Congressional District to become the state's second Black elected U.S. House member. The federal courts redrew the state's congressional map after determining the Republican-controlled state legislature failed to create a new district in 2023 that would give Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.

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  • Law

Court rules Alabama redistricting intentionally discriminates against Black voters

A federal court says Alabama can't use a congressional map it found unconstitutional. The ruling comes in a voting rights case that resulted in the state getting a second Black member of Congress.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott
Alabama death row inmate Robin "Rocky" Myers was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP)

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  • National

Alabama governor commutes a death row inmate's sentence to life in prison

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his execution.

March 01, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Michigan resident Beverly Leaf stands in solidarity with the mother of Demetrius Frazier as she pleads for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to bring him to Michigan to serve out a life sentence.

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  • Law

Alabama puts man to death in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life sentence in her state, which doesn't have the death penalty.

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action leads a demonstration outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, against a scheduled execution in Alabama using nitrogen gas.

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  • National

Alabama carries out nation's 3rd nitrogen gas execution

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's third execution using nitrogen gas.

November 22, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
This undated photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Derrick Dearman, who was executed by lethal injection in Alabama on Oct. 17, 2024.

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  • National

Alabama executes man who killed 5 and asked to be put to death

Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death.

October 18, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Jeff and Donna Standridge (right and middle) and Keith Lowhorne (right) are all raising their grandchildren. More than 2.5 million children in the U.S. are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family members — when their parents are unable to care for them.

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  • Health

A new way to support grandparents raising kids affected by the addiction epidemic

A pilot program in Alabama will distribute $280,000 from opioid settlement funds to support ‘grandfamilies’ formed to raise kids affected by the opioid epidemic.

October 15, 2024
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By:
  • Drew Hawkins
Lillie Cunningham celebrated her 110th birthday in Florence, Ala., in late September.

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  • National

At 110 years old, an Alabama woman credits one thing for her long life: faith

Lillie Cunningham recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She has lived through two pandemics and two world wars and is looking forward to voting in November's presidential election.

October 04, 2024
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
Georgia linebacker CJ Allen (3) sets up for a play against Alabama during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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  • News

Alabama-Georgia averages 12 million on ABC, most-watched regular-season prime-time game since 2017

Alabama's 41-34 victory over Georgia on Saturday night averaged 12 million viewers on ABC and ESPN's streaming platforms, according to Nielsen. It was the most-watched regular season prime-time game since 2017, when Alabama-Florida State on the season's opening weekend averaged 12.3 million.

October 02, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Alabama, Aug. 5, 1999.

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  • National

Alabama puts man to death in the country's second nitrogen gas execution

Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country.

September 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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