A decomposing body found wrapped and concealed under a mattress in Bessemer, Alabama on Wednesday has been identified as missing 30-year-old mother Tiffany Smitherman Osborne, authorities said.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey was speaking with reporters when she was interrupted by the sister of Nathanial Woods, who was executed on March 5 for capital murder.

The state of Alabama says it’s providing artifacts from the last slave ship to dock in the United States for a special exhibition.

As the 55th anniversary of the civil rights clash known as Bloody Sunday approaches, townspeople in Alabama want to remind the world that the road to Selma began in a place called Marion.

A man convicted as an accomplice in the 2004 shooting deaths of three police officers in which another man pulled the trigger has been executed in Alabama

The son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as family members of a condemned Alabama inmate, are asking the governor to to stop the execution of the man who’s convicted in the 2004 killing of three police officers but wasn’t the trigger man.

An Alabama man arrested for slashing a towering protest balloon depicting President Donald Trump as a baby was ordered to attend counseling and complete community service for a chance at getting the charges dismissed. If Hoyt Hutchinson, 32, finishes the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s diversion program without any other infractions, the case and charges against him could be removed from…

This month, the Negro Southern League Museum in Birmingham, Alabama, will celebrate the league’s centennial anniversary, NBC News reports.

Authorities in Walker County, Alabama, are investigating after a dog was found shot in the head with an arrow. The Walker County Humane Society says it’s a miracle the pup survived — the arrow struck the dog right between the eyes, narrowly missing the brain.

Paighton Houston, an Alabama woman who was reported to have texted her family saying she might be in trouble around the time she disappeared in December, died of an accidental drug overdose, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office said Thursday.

A man wanted on an abuse of a corpse charge in Alabama in connection with the death of Paighton Houston, whose body was found in a shallow grave more than three weeks ago, was apprehended Wednesday in a Cleveland, Ohio, suburb, authorities said.

Authorities and relatives say a woman and her five children are among the dead in a dock fire that killed eight people at a north Alabama marina.

The fire chief in Scottsboro, Alabama says at least eight people were killed in an explosive fire that consumed at least 35 vessels along the Tennessee River. Authorities say all eight people known to be missing are confirmed dead, and “that number could go up,” because they don’t know how many were on boats that sank. At least seven people...

At least eight people have died after a fire at Jackson County Park in Alabama. At least 35 boats were burned in the fire.   

Police in Jasper, Alabama, are searching for a man who robbed at least two churches while wearing a Batman-style mask....

King’s Way Church pastor Jason Hooper says the “Batman Bandit” used a rock to break the front window....

The man stole a keyboard and bass guitar, committing his crime in just one minute and 18 seconds....

“You’re frustrated because looking at the gentleman...

Human remains found buried in a shallow grave in a backyard have been identified as Paighton Houston, an Alabama woman who texted she feared she was “in trouble” before disappearing last month, police said Friday. The Trussville Police Department said in a statement that the discovered body was identified as Houston, 29. The police department said investigators recovered the body…

Human remains discovered in a wooded area have been confirmed as belonging to a missing college student who was the stepdaughter of a well-known UFC fighter, Alabama authorities announced Wednesday. The Auburn Police Department said the Department of Forensic Sciences confirmed the remains belong to Aniah Blanchard, 19. She was the stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, in a sharp break with tradition, testified against his colleague Sen. Jeff Sessions on Wednesday during Sessions’ confirmation hearings to be Attorney General.

Flu activity is picking up across the country, indicating an earlier start to this year’s flu season, particularly in the South and in the West, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The uptick doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be a bad season — flu is notoriously unpredictable — but some clues from earlier this year point...

Billionaire and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg filed official paperwork to run for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. It is a key procedural move and not a declaration that he is indeed running. A spokesman for Bloomberg explained that filing in the state of Alabama started a 15-day process to file with the FEC. “This is not an...