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Former Alabama assistant coach Lane Kiffin has reportedly backed off his plan to add two former college players with ties to the NFL onto his 2026 football roster. However, a court ruling this week may mean the controversy is far from over. -
The widow of an Alabama airman killed on a combat mission in the Middle East said it took a viral social media post to get resolution from the Pentagon on issues related to her husband's benefits and basic pay months after his death. -
LSU coach Lane Kiffin’s chances of fielding former NFL players improved Thursday night when a Louisiana judge issued a preliminary injunction against the NCAA in a high-profile eligibility case. The "paint or get off the ladder" point is expected today when Kiffin submits his football team roster to the SEC. -
The U.S. House is considering a bill that could impact the Foster Care system in Alabama and around the nation. It has to do with recruiting families to take in children who need a place to call home. APR Student intern Sarah Murph has more on what this legislation could mean here in Alabama. -
The forecast in Alabama calls for highs in the mid to upper nineties for the coming days. And, A new study shows how families in the state are paying the cost when it comes to keeping their homes cool. Power Choice Texas ranks Alabama as the seventh worst state in the country for air conditioning expense. -
Here on APR Notebook, I've invited you to listen into my chats with actors and authors. Those talks are pretty light. Then there was my conversation with Alex Drueke, who spent 105 days as a POW in the hands of Russian forces after he volunteered to fight for Ukraine. That one was tough to listen to, and fair warning, here's another one. But hear me out. Genocide has been going on in part of the African nation of Sudan for years. The region I'm talking about is roughly the size of Spain. It's called Darfur. An estimated 2 million people have been killed there, but for some of the survivors, there has been justice, and an attorney who hails from Mobile made it possible. Kathryn Lee Boyd argued the case against the French bank BNP Paribas. It was accused of funding the mass killings in Darfur. Boyd won, and she's my guest next on APR Notebook. -
Published reports indicate LSU head coach Lane Kiffin is actively pursuing former college players with NFL ties to join the Tigers’ roster, just days ahead of the start of the 2026 season. CBS Sports and Yahoo News are among the outlets reporting that the former assistant coach at Alabama, under Nick Saban, is seeking three players with varying ties with NFL teams to play for LSU. -
Thousands of protesters are expected on the National Mall on Friday for a rally in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elections, following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that civil rights groups have condemned as detrimental to Black Americans. Alabama’s upcoming election in District two appears at the epicenter of today’s demonstration. -
Alabama Shakes has returned with the band's first album in 11 years and it turns out that craft beer played a big part in the reunion. Not drinking it, exactly. Singer and guitarist Brittany Howard was chilling following her second solo album, 2024's “What Now,” when she was contacted by Bo Hicks, the co-founder of the Druid City Brewing Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. -
Movie fans, producers, and directors have descended on Birmingham this week. The annual Sidewalk Film Festival is underway, with prize money as high as one thousand dollars up for grabs. Audience members will get to weigh in on the over two hundred movies being screened during the event. -
Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died. She was 80. Children in all sixty seven counties of Alabama were able to get books for free through Parton’s “Imagination Library.” -
Canada struck back at the United States on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American goods, including steel, dairy products, appliances and farm equipment, as the trade war between the once-friendly neighbors escalated sharply. Paper exports from the U.S. are included, and that might be where Alabama could be hurt.
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Alabama’s attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI following an alleged hacking incident involving the servers of a competitor back in July. AG Steve Marshall wants to know if OpenAI, and its owner Sam Altman, are in violation of Alabama consumer protection laws, posing a possible threat to state citizens. -
Sources are telling multiple news outlets that Alabama sophomore Keelon Russell will be the starting quarterback when the Crimson Tide takes on the East Carolina Pirates at Bryant Denny Stadium on September fifth. Senior (redshirt junior) Austin Mack was the other possible choice as Alabama gears up for the season. Overall, the Tide’s path toward a possible CFP Championship could hinge on what happens on October tenth on Nick Saban Field. -
Blame Alabama and Georgia. Point fingers at Auburn, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, too. The Southeastern Conference, once the most dominant league in the land, lost its stranglehold on college football over the last three years. -
Former University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears won his defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. Multiple published reports, including the Times, says a jury awarded the walk on athlete of over $9 million dollars following a trial in the aftermath of the murder of a Birmingham woman. -
Alabama isn’t considered a good place to be if you’re a dog or cat. A 2024 report by the Animal Legal Defense Fund ranks our state 48th nationally for laws to protect pets.The group notes that social workers in Alabama don’t have to report signs of animal abuse despite evidence linking mistreatment of pets and domestic violence. One other trend was found regarding dogs and cats around the University of Alabama campus. -
The Crimson Tide look to make back-to-back appearances in the College Football Playoff under third-year coach Kalen DeBoer and potentially end the Southeastern Conference’s three-year national championship drought. The powerhouse league hasn’t even made the title game since Georgia won consecutive championships in 2022-23. -
UAB athletic director Mark Ingram is leaving after 11 years, with his departure announced Tuesday by the university as an agreement to “part ways.” Andy Kennedy, the men's basketball coach, will be UAB's interim athletic director during the search for Ingram's replacement. -
Explosions rocked an Ohio industrial recycling business, sparking a large fire that drew a swarm of emergency responders. Two workers were unaccounted for and a few others had minor injuries, officials said. The owner of the facility is based in Brent, Alabama -
Civil rights advocates on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, teeing up a potential new test of state-sponsored religious expression in classrooms. This could have an impact in Alabama, where the state passed a similar measure back in April, which was signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey. -
Ohio State and Oregon are 1-2 in the AP Top 25, giving the Big Ten Conference the top two teams in the preseason rankings for just the second time ever. Georgia, Notre Dame and Texas round out the top 5. The bitter pill for Alabama is its slot at number thirteen. The last time the Crimson Tide failed to make the top ten in the AP preseason was 2008, one year after legendary coach Nick Saban moved to Tuscaloosa. -
Multiple published reports say The Las Vegas Raiders are hiring an Alabama assistant wide receivers coach as a quality control coach. The move comes within three weeks of the Crimson Tide’s season opener against East Carolina on Saban Field at Bryant Denny Stadium. That ted departure isn’t the only jolt to Alabama’s running backs unit. -
The U.S. Army temporarily halted all Apache helicopter training missions Friday after a fatal crash in Texas earlier this week killed two soldiers. No cause of the Wednesday crash has been released because the investigation has just begun. A safety investigation team from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama, is trying to determine what happened, the Army said.
