The Latest Breaking News from Alabama

More changes could be coming to voting districts in some states

The chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway has arrived at a courthouse in Alabama to face charges that he tried to extort the missing teen's mother

In a surprising ruling on June 8, 2023, the conservative leaning U.S. Supreme Court threw out Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama that a lower court had ruled discriminated against Black voters and violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Perhaps they know they need to preserve whatever is left of their legitimacy

Ruling on Alabama congressional map gives Black voters more opportunities to elect candidates of their choice

A major Supreme Court decision in an Alabama redistricting case could provide a roadmap for other gerrymandering challenges. There are similar challenges to maps elsewhere in the South.

Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she vanished during a trip with classmates to Aruba in 2005

A wave of new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors relies on a number of doctors with ties to rightwing groups and little experience treating transgender patients

This week’s Supreme Court decision ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional maps was seen by many minority lawmakers and voting rights activists as a stunning victory with the potential to become a major stepping stone for undoing gerrymandered political maps that dilute the political strength of communities of color

On June 8, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Alabama’s congressional redistricting plan adopted in November 2021 and used in the state’s 2022 elections violated the Voting Rights Act and must be redrawn to include a second majority-Black district.

Convicted felon broke out of Lauderdale County Detention Center in April 2022 with help from guard Vicky White before going on the run for two weeks