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Disturbing video footage shot by Alabama prison inmates wasn’t enough to sway voters for the 2026 Academy Awards. “The Alabama Solution” lost to “Mister Nobody versus Putin” at last night’s Oscars. The winning entry for “Best Documentary Feature” similarly used video shot in secret. A school videographer in Russia used footage he took at schools to illustrate how Vladmir Putin is working to indoctrinate young students. -
Three of the six U.S. service members who died in the crash of a U.S. military refueling aircraft were stationed in Birmingham as part of 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. -
A pilot from Alabama had just been promoted to major in January and had been deployed less than a week when the refueling aircraft he was aboard crashed in Iraq this week, killing him and five others. -
AJ Storr scored 17 points, Ilias Kamardine added 16 and 15th-seeded Mississippi upset No. 15 and second-seeded Alabama 80-79 on Friday night in the Southeastern Conference Tournament quarterfinals. Mississippi won for the third time in three days in the tournament after losing 12 of the final 13 regular-season games. -
Recent employment reports may indicate a mixed labor market – but there are jobs aplenty in Alabama. The office of Governor Kay Ivey says 2025 was a record breaking year for economic development with more than nine thousand new jobs on the horizon. We’re not talking about just any jobs, but ones that require an educated workforce. Baldwin County is home to a career tech public high school that’s helping meet the demand. -
Opponents of capital punishment in the U.S. are talking “next steps” after what Governor Kay Ivey did this week. The Governor commuted the death sentence of Charles Burton. He’ll remain in prison without the chance of parole. Burton didn’t shoot the victim during a 1991 robbery. -
Governor Kay Ivey is commuting the sentence of Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton. He had spent the last thirty years awaiting execution for the 1991 killing of Doug Battle at a Talladega AutoZone store. Burton’s case attracted national attention since he did not pull the trigger. Prosecutors charged him under what’s known as felony murder. That law makes a convicted offender as guilty as the person who committed the killing. -
The Falcons are giving a former starting quarterback a test drive.ESPN reports the team plans to sign Tua Tagovailoa to a one-year deal when free agency officially begins on Wednesday.Michael Penix Jr. is recovering from a knee injury and could miss Week One. -
Minnesota Vikings center Ryan Kelly has retired after a concussion-marred final season in his 10-year NFL career. Kelly played in only eight games in his lone season with the Vikings. He helped the Crimson Tide win three national titles. -
Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped spur passage of the landmark legislation that dismantled barriers to voting for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. -
Charles Burton has spent 30 years on death row at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, the site of the state's execution chamber.Burton's death sentence is the result of a legal doctrine known as felony murder, which allows prosecutors to treat anyone involved in certain felonies equally responsible for a killing that occurs during the crime. -
Motorists in Alabama continue to face more pain at the gas pump as U.S. military action against Iran enters its first week. The website of Alabama Triple-A says the cost of a gallon of regular gasoline is $2.98. That’s about a thirty cent jump over the past week.
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Thousands of marchers from around the nation are gathered in Selma, Alabama for this weekend's 61st annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. This year's celebration will pay special tribute to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed away last month at the age of 84. -
Clocks will skip ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday for daylight saving time in most of the U.S. Alabama GOP Congressman Mike Rogers who introduces such a bill every term, said the airline industry, which doesn't want the scheduling complexity a change would bring, has been a factor in persuading lawmakers not to take it up. -
People move to rural Baldwin County for nature and a slower pace. But that same open land is attracting large-scale energy projects tied to data centers. One in particular is raising questions about growth and who makes land-use decisions in rural Alabama. -
The campus of the now-defunct Birmingham Southern College is being purchased by the U.S. Coast Guard. In a written statement, the Coast Guard said one of the reasons the historic campus was selected is its capacity to accommodate more than 12-hundred recruits. The repurposing of the college campus is also expected to create about one-thousand jobs. -
Published reports say Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is offering help to countries in the Middle East when it comes to defending against Iranian drones. An Alabama U.S. Army veteran, who volunteered to help the Ukrainian military, says they’re good at that type of warfare. -
A Texas judge is hearing evidence Wednesday on whether Camp Mystic, the all-girls youth camp where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year, should remain closed while a lawsuit filed by one of the girls’ families is pending. The flood also killed eight year old Sarah Marsh of Mountain Brook, Alabama. -
In this edition of APR Notebook— I became news director at Alabama Public Radio in September of 2009. One of my first stories involved James Beard award-winning chef Frank Stitt of Birmingham. It was prompted by this, arguably the worst oil spill in American history. -
The website of Alabama Triple-A says the price at the pump may already be showing signs of what’s to come. The cost of a gallon of regular gasoline in the state jumped by ten cents between Monday and yesterday. -
Kanon Catchings scored a career-high 32 points and Georgia ended No. 16 Alabama's eight-game winning streak with a 98-88 victory Tuesday night. Catchings ignited the Bulldogs with 20 points before halftime, leading their fourth win in five games. -
One of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates could soon receive a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the state’s appeal of a lower court's ruling that prosecutors violated his rights by intentionally rejecting potential Black jurors. -
Maxwell Air Force Base is tightening security in response to ongoing operations against Iran.It's one of several U.S. military installations that are expanding security protocols.Maxwell AFB and Gunter Annex in Montgomery will now require 100-percent identification checks at all entry points. -
A small group of pro-Iranian protesters in Birmingham staged a rally to condemn the U.S.-Israeli military attacks against Iran over the weekend.The event took place Saturday in the Five Points South entertainment district. On streets around the world, there were protests in outrage or bursts of celebration.
