The Latest Breaking News from Alabama

Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta is a lush, vibrant and surprisingly intact more than 400-square-mile (1,036-square-kilometer) expanse of cypress swamps, oxbow lakes, marshland, hardwood stands and rivers

The families of six people who died in Alabama prisons have sued the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, the University of Alabama System, and others, claiming their family members' bodies were returned to them after state-mandated autopsies with missing organs. The autopsies were performed at the University of…

Alan Miller, 59, is scheduled to be put to death in September

Alabama AG settles lawsuit with death row inmate Alan Miller over nitrogen gas execution, paving way for scheduled execution.

Alabama’s attorney general says another nitrogen gas execution will go forward in September

Controversy surrounds the first nitrogen gas execution in the US, raising questions about its effectiveness and process.

Last couple in lawsuit have not yet dismissed claims that led to court ruling that embryos are ‘extrauterine children’

A former FBI agent has been sentenced to life behind bars for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl

Couples drop lawsuit after Alabama Supreme Court ruling on embryos as children; clinics close. Legal and ethical issues in reproductive medicine highlighted.