Smith throws 2 TD passes to help North Alabama get first win, 25-16 over West Georgia

CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — TJ Smith threw two touchdown passes, Scott Payne kicked three field goals and North Alabama got its first win 25-16 over West Georgia on Saturday. Smith's second TD pass late in the third quarter put the Lions (1-5, 1-1 United Athletic Conference) on top...

Justice Department sues Alabama saying state is purging voter rolls too close to election

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its top election official, accusing the state of illegally purging people from voter rolls too close to the November election. Federal officials said the purge violates the “quiet...

Court revives lawsuit of Black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor's flowers

Montgomery, Ala. (AP) — The police officers who arrested a Black pastor while he watered his neighbor's plants can be sued, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, reversing a lower court judge's decision to dismiss the pastor's lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of...

Alabama police officer shot and killed a 68-year-old knife wielding man with dementia

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama police officer is being investigated for allegedly shooting and killing a 68-year-old man with dementia after his family called for help on Sunday, according to authorities and the family's lawyer. A Muscle Shoals police officer fatally shot...

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...

5 executions have happened over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S. The first execution was carried out on...

Alabama uses nitrogen gas to execute a man convicted of killing 3, the second time the method has been used in the US

Harris says the right to be safe is a civil right as Biden signs order on gun technology

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday she believes the right to be safe is a civil right — and that means a right to live free from gun violence — as President Joe Biden signed an executive order that seeks to restrict new technologies that make guns easier to fire and...

Federal government to roll back oversight on Alabama women's prison after nine years

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The federal government will roll back almost all oversight over an Alabama women's prison on Thursday, according to court filings, nine years after the Department of Justice found chronic sexual abuse at the facility and accused the state of violating the constitutional...

Glock pistols are popular among criminals because they're easily modified, report says

BALTIMORE (AP) — Glock pistols are a popular choice for people committing gun crimes, in part because they can be easily converted into fully automatic weapons using a small device, according to a new report based on data from nearly three dozen U.S. cities. Often called Glock...