Latest Kay Ivey News
Stewart wins election as Alabama chief justice
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Supreme Court Justice Sarah Stewart was elected as the state’s chief justice, becoming the first Republican woman to be elected to the position. Stewart easily defeated Circuit Judge Greg Griffin, a Democrat from Montgomery, in the low-key election...
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey treated for dehydration at campaign rally
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey was treated by paramedics Sunday after appearing to become unsteady at a campaign rally for congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson. Ivey's office said the governor had gotten dehydrated and recovered after being treated with fluids....
Ivey defends dismissal of veterans commissioners, has no plan to replace parole board chair
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday defended her decision to fire the state veterans commissioner as what she called a last resort after the state board refused her request to do so. Ivey spoke briefly with reporters after a speech to a Montgomery civic club....
Ivey dismisses head of Department of Veterans Affairs after agency board refuses
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Gov. Kay Ivey said Tuesday that she was using the “supreme executive power of this state” to fire the head of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs after the agency board rejected her request to do so. Ivey sent a letter to Alabama Department of...
Alabama puts man convicted of killing 3 to death in the country’s second nitrogen gas execution
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was...
Harassment case dismissed against Alabama transportation director
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday dismissed a harassment charge against state Transportation Director John Cooper after a neighbor, who accused Cooper of threatening him, said he no longer wanted to pursue the matter. Prosecutors in Marshall County wrote in a request to...
State veterans affairs commissioner to resign at the end of the year
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs is resigning at the end of the year following criticisms from Gov. Kay Ivey. Commissioner W. Kent Davis on Monday submitted his resignation which will be effective Dec. 31, Ivey’s office...
Gov. Ivey asks state veteran affairs commissioner to resign
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday called for the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs to resign over what she called the mishandling of federal American Rescue Plan Act grant funds. The one-page letter to Commissioner W. Kent Davis...
Alabama sets mid-October execution date for man who killed 5 in ax and gun attack
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has set a mid-October execution date for a man who admitted to killing five people with an axe and gun and later told a judge he was dropping his appeals so he could be put to death. Derrick Dearman, 35, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on...
Alabama anti-DEI law shuts Black Student Union office, queer resource center at flagship university
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — There was one major deciding factor in Cierra Gilliam’s decision about where to go to college. When she toured the University of Alabama's flagship campus in Tuscaloosa, her guide took her to the Black Student Union office on the first floor of the...
