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Clarence Thomas, the justice long known as the silent member of the Supreme Court, criticized his colleagues Friday for badgering attorneys rather than letting them speak during oral arguments.
Testimony at the corruption trial of Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford showed an investment banker saved himself years in prison and as much as $6 million by agreeing to plead guilty and testify for the prosecution.
Going to work may never be the same again.
HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy's fleet of cars has been sold at auction, collecting more than $800,000.
An Arkansas man suspected of faking his death on the Mississippi coast five years ago to avoid paying court-ordered restitution was arrested at a small Alabama airport where FAA records show he was the manager.
With the economy gasping for life last spring, about 1.3 million people gathered in 5,600 churches nationwide to behold the nation's leading prophet of personal finance.
The sheriff in Alabama's most populous county may call for the National Guard to help maintain order, a spokesman said Tuesday, as a judge cleared the way for cuts in the sheriff's budget and lawmakers reached a compromise they hope will end the budget crisis.
Bucket loaders and bulldozers are tearing apart a hill that researchers call the foundation of an ancient Native American site to provide fill dirt for a Sam's Club store, a move that appalls preservationists.
Two-lane roads lined with weeds and trees seem to stretch forever in Perry County, where thousands of residents are poor even by Alabama standards and they don't produce much for the outside world besides timber and catfish.
Camp Sumatanga has meant Bible stories and softball games for generations of Methodist families. Young and old alike come to the old church retreat for renewal in its quiet coves and chapels.
In a story June 26, The Associated Press reported that frustrated fishermen are firing guns at bottlenose dolphins that have become increasingly aggressive in taking fish off hooks, and some dolphins have been wounded or killed.
Michael Griffin has moved from the administrator's suite atop NASA headquarters in Washington to the small, bare office of a new engineering professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
The calls have all been similar pranks: A frantic man urges hotel desk workers or guests to set off a fire sprinkler, sound an alarm or bust windows. It's always the same: Do it now!
The nation's largest public utility plans to dispose of millions of tons of coal ash from a massive spill in Tennessee into a giant landfill in one of Alabama's poorest counties, state environmental officials said Friday.
The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama's oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses line the narrow streets.
Fired HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy kept up his attacks Thursday on five former finance chiefs who linked him to a huge fraud, putting the blame squarely on them for the accounting swindle.
A white fraternity that traces its roots to the Civil War and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is again facing complaints over its antebellum-themed events.
An Alabama Army major and his wife are accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes from a Georgia contractor who received about $21 million for delivering bottled water and building fences in Kuwait and Iraq.
Inmates and officers agree on this much about Alabama's toughest prison, where old plastic jugs catch drips from death row's leaky roof: It's barely fit to live in or work in.
The president of Jacksonville State University, whose use of a ghostwriter for newspaper columns caused a stir two years ago, now has been accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Alabama.
A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday.
The doctor whose bungled autopsy of a baby led to a murder charge that was dropped this week against an Alabama mother maintains the findings were correct, the medical examiner's lawyer said Friday.
It was a fish story that even veteran boat captains found fascinating: As many as 200 killer whales feeding on tuna in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The children of three slain Colombian union leaders filed a lawsuit Friday reviving claims that the men's U.S.-based employer was responsible for their killings outside a coal mine eight years ago.
The Army said Wednesday it opened an inquiry into whether federal laws were broken when nearly two dozen soldiers were sent to a south Alabama town after 11 people died in a shooting spree last week.
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