Alabama Public Radio

Congress Due To Grill Ousted IRS Chief

(Most recent update: 12:50 p.m. ET.)Saying that "foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection," the

A key House Republican says lawmakers have more work to do before settling on final changes to Alabama campaign finance laws. But Rep. Mike Ball...

Alabama's unemployment rate has dipped to 6.9 percent. Gov. Robert Bentley said the preliminary April rate is below the 7.2 percent recorded in...

The architect of Alabama's new private school tax credits intends to block the governor's proposal to delay the tax breaks for two years. Senate...

The Cruelty of Children Stories about kids being mean to each other.

Gov. Robert Bentley says his first impression of the state education and state general fund budgets is that they are basically fine. Bentley said...

Plum Baby

There isn't enough time in this world to grow your own tree. That tree is a plum baby still, never mind it's tall as the house those men are taking...
David Foster Wallace Tells Us About Freedom

This being Commencement Time, I'd like to share this gently dramatized version of David Foster Wallace's 2005 address to the graduates of Kenyon...
Dan Brown: 'Inferno' Is 'The Book That I Would Want To Read'

Robert Langdon is back. The Harvard art professor in custom tweeds — and an ever-present Mickey Mouse watch — wakes up in a hospital after getting...
Not Your Grandpa's RV: This Roving Lab Tracks Air Pollution

If you're driving down the road someday and you come across a camper with a 50-foot periscope sticking up into the sky, you just might have crossed...
Turning Up The Heat On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases

Six years ago, the FBI took on a challenge: To review what it called cold case killings from the civil rights era. The investigation into 112 cases...