State News

The state Department of Veterans Affairs has been given the go-ahead to build a new veterans home facility in Pell City.

Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes says the office's chaplain has confessed to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Dothan girl.

Gubernatorial candidate Artur Davis has picked up an endorsement from a major union.

Modern tools that alert people to an emergency — digital highway signs, e-mail and cell phone messages — aren't always effective across the rural expanse of the Black Belt, but an older technology may fill the gap: radio.

A state appeals court has ruled that one neighbor can't cut down a towering tree on the property line when the other neighbor wants to save the tree.

A member of an Alabama National Guard unit is recovering after being wounded in the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.

Montgomery police have suspended a landfill search for the body of a baby they believe was placed in the trash.

A former correctional officer will spend a year in jail and serve three years of probation for taking drugs into the prison where he worked.

State Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks has picked up endorsements from 28 sheriffs in his campaign to become Alabama's next governor.

An Alabama woman has been indicted on charges of kidnapping a Tennessee newborn.