An Alabama judge says it isn’t unusual for him to insist that defendants show respect for the people’s courtroom by sentencing those who wear saggy pants to jail time for…
In court on Tuesday to enter a plea in a receiving stolen property case, an Alabama man found that his saggy blue jeans prevented forward progress in the Autauga County…
Police raided the Brewton office of an Alabama criminal defense attorney on Thursday and arrested her on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and attempt to commit a…
Nelle Harper Lee, the famous and reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has rarely, if ever, given interviews since a few years after the book was published in 1960.
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An Alabama prosecutor is seeking the death penalty in a murder case against a 46-year-old grandmother accused of forcing a 9-year-old girl, with the cooperation of the child’s stepmother, to…
A former Alabama chief justice is staging a comeback after his ouster almost a decade ago for his refusal to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building.
A lawyer for an Alabama state senator accused in a vote-buying case defended his client with shouts and a sandwich during closing arguments on Tuesday.
Two more men have been charged in an alleged solicitation of and conspiracy to murder a partner in an Alabama law firm, bringing the total number of suspects in the…
An Alabama justice known for his conservative stands is using a woman’s wrongful death case over a stillborn fetus to question the viability standard in Roe v. Wade.
Hit with a nearly $6 million judgment after he lost a lawsuit over a land deal in which the defendant successfully counterclaimed, a former municipal councilman in Alabama sought to…
Defense counsel for an Alabama pharmacy owner facing criminal charges for allegedly violating Medicaid rules have taken the unusual tack of asking a federal judge in Mobile to order the…
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