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Alabama Man Arrested in Woman's 1980 Boston Killing, Rape, Police Say
Police investigating a 42-year-old cold case in Boston have announced the arrest of a man from Alabama on murder and rape charges in the death of 19-year-old Wendy Dansereau. Steven Fike, 62, was arrested Wednesday by detectives, Boston police said Thursday. The killing had been under investigation by the department’s Homicide Unsolved Murder Squad, and Fike was indicted in 2019….
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Small Alabama Town Disbands Police Department Over Racist Text
Residents were outraged when the text messages surfaced in social media posts.
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Girl Who Escaped Captivity By Gnawing Through Restraints Was Being Held With Remains of Mother and Brother
The 12-year-old girl was found wandering down a rural Alabama road earlier this week by a passing driver.
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Girl Escapes Captivity in Alabama, Leading to Discovery of 2 Bodies
A 12-year-old girl, who had been tied up and drugged, was found wandering down a road in Alabama after she managed to escape. Deputies were led to the home where she was held captive and found two decomposed bodies.
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Twelve-Year-Old Captive Girl Escapes, Leading Police to Find Two Bodies
Although she had been drugged and bound, the girl managed to escape and was discovered walking along a road in rural Alabama by a passing driver.
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Man Executed Despite Calls From Victim's Family to Spare Him
An Alabama inmate convicted of killing his former girlfriend decades ago was executed Thursday night despite pleas from the victim’s family to spare his life. Joe Nathan James Jr. received a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting...
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5-Year-Old in Chucky Costume Terrorizes Alabama Neighborhood: ‘I Almost Had a Heart Attack'
“Hi, I’m Chucky. Wanna play?”
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50 Years Ago, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Was Exposed. How a Reporter Broke the Story
For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human body. On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a then 29-year-old investigative reporter at The Associated Press shocked the world with a story of what is now known as the “Tuskegee Study.”
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Beloved Lioness Killed at Birmingham Zoo, Minutes After Meeting New Mate
A new male lion killed a lioness Monday afternoon at the zoo in Birmingham, Alabama, just minutes after being introduced in the same enclosure.
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Lioness Killed by Lion Minutes After Meeting at Alabama Zoo
Officials at a zoo in Alabama say a female lion was fatally injured while being introduced to a newly acquired male companion. The Birmingham Zoo says a female named Akili died on Monday within minutes of a meeting with a new male lion named Josh. The zoo says the slow process of introducing the two lions to each other had...
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Inmate Charged With Murder of Alabama Jail Official Who Helped Him Escape
A prisoner who prompted a nationwide manhunt when he disappeared from an Alabama jail has been charged with killing the jail official authorities said helped him escape.
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Roy Moore's Defamation Suit Against Baron Cohen Rejected
An appeals court has rejected a $95 million defamation lawsuit filed by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore against Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Moore claimed he was tricked into an humiliating television appearance that lampooned sexual misconduct accusations against him. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of Baron...
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Hero 10-Year-Old Twins Save Dad From Drowning Using CPR They Saw in Movies
When Alabama dad Brad Hassig lost consciousness in the family pool, his young sons and a neighbor saved his life.
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Britt Wins Tumultuous Alabama Senate Race Scrambled by Trump
Katie Britt has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama, defeating six-term Congressman Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump endorsed and then un-endorsed him. The loss ends a turbulent campaign for Brooks, a conservative firebrand who had fully embraced Trump’s election lies and had run under the banner “MAGA Mo.” But it wasn’t enough...
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‘Hero' at Alabama Church Potluck Subdued Shooter; Death Toll Rises
The 71-year-old suspect has been identified as a white man who had previously attended services at the church. He is in custody and facing capital murder charges.
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Police: 1 Dead, 2 Injured in Alabama Church Shooting
The shooting occurred in the Birmingham, Ala., area.
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Police: 1 Dead, 2 Hurt in Alabama Church Shooting
A shooting at a church in a suburb of one of Alabama’s major cities left one person dead and two others wounded Thursday evening, police said, adding a suspect was taken into custody.
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2 US Veterans From Alabama Reported Missing in Ukraine
Two U.S. veterans from Alabama who were in Ukraine assisting in the war against Russia haven’t been heard from in days and are missing. Members of the state’s congressional delegation say relatives of 27-year-old Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh of Trinity and 39-year-old Alexander Drueke of Tuscaloosa have been in contact with Capitol Hill offices seeking information about the men’s whereabouts....
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Tipster Gets $5,000 Reward in Capture of Escaped Alabama Inmate
Casey White and jailer Vicky White disappeared from Lauderdale County Detention Facility on April 29, sparking a manhunt that drew international attention.
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Primaries in Georgia, Texas, Elsewhere to Test Trump's Political Power Over GOP
Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who is seeking revenge for his 2020 election defeat in the state.