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Former Alabama football star Quinnen Williams and his brother Quincy may need to make room for their younger brother on the roster at the New York Jets. Giovanni Williams is taking part in the rookie camp with the Jets. If he makes it onto the team, it will be the first time in a century that an NFL team has had three brothers playing at the same time. -
Alabama plans to carry out another execution by nitrogen gas and has set a June execution date for a man convicted of the 1988 killing of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death June 10 for the 1988 beating death of Karen Lane. -
An Iranian student at the University of Alabama under federal arrest says he will leave the U.S. voluntarily. The attorney for Alireza Doroudi announced his client’s decision after the Government dropped a key charge in his arrest and the judge denied reconsideration of bail. -
An Alabama U.S. House seat APR spotlighted in a eight-month investigation apparently got support from a three-judge federal panel. Their ruling states the Alabama legislature pushed an alternative voting map that intentionally discriminated against black voters. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state to redraw its voting districts to better represent African Americans. -
Alabama’s Catholic community is celebrating the selection of Pope Leo the fourteenth. But, it was another Pope Leo who made a substantial impact on the state. The website Encyclopedia of Alabama says it was Pope Leo the twelfth who helped spread Catholicism in the state in 1825. -
Donald Trump hasn’t given up on taking possession of Greenland. The White House says it wants the world’s third largest island which is located just east of Canada in the north Atlantic Ocean. APR reports from Denmark on the Alabama connection to the story… -
Alabama will soon join the states that have banned or restricted the presence of cellphones in schools. The Alabama Senate voted 30-2 for the bill to prohibit students in K-12 public schools from using phones during the school day. -
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday gave final passage to legislation that will make Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the end of slavery after the Civil War, an official state holiday. The Alabama Senate voted 13-5 for the legislation that now goes to Governor Kay Ivey for her to sign or veto. -
Alabama lawmakers voted to cut the state sales tax on food and to exempt diapers, baby formula and feminine hygiene products from the state sales tax altogether. The Alabama Senate approved both bills by votes of 34-0. The bills now goes to Governor Kay Ivey for her signature. -
A new shark alert system, inspired by a teen who survived an attack last year, that warns beachgoers when a shark has bitten someone in the vicinity will be established in Alabama under legislation signed by Governor Kay Ivey. The system will issue a public notice to cellphones when there's been a shark attack nearby. -
Turkey hunters in central Alabama are being invited to take part in a unique photo competition. Alabama Black Belt Adventures are holding what’s called the Turkey Shoot photo contest. -
The co lead-counsel in a $3 billion dollar settlement plan with the NCAA over name, image, and likeness deals for college student athletes took direct aim at former Alabama football coach Nick Saban. Steve Berman says he thinks an updated agreement with the NCAA will solve the judge's concerns over roster limits that have delayed the settlement's approval
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Birmingham officials are fighting to keep control of the state's largest water board, alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that a new bill shifting power to Alabama's Republican leadership and majority-white suburbs "constitutes blatant racial discrimination." -
The deadline to get a REAL ID is fast approaching in Alabama and elsewhere after years of postponements and delays. Starting May 7, your license or identification card will need to be REAL ID-compliant to fly domestically in the U.S. It’s also known as the “STAR ID” in Alabama. -
University of Alabama graduates could have some unwelcome news coming today. The Trump administration is ordering the U.S. Department of Education to start collecting on student loans in default. The U.S. Treasury Department could claw back those dollars through the garnishment of wages. The website Education Data Initiative says Alabama has greater student loan debt on average than the rest of the nation. Over six hundred thousand Alabamians have outstanding college loans that need to be paid back. -
Alireza Doroudi has been detained in an immigration facility in Louisiana for nearly six weeks. Doroudi's detention has instilled fear in the small Iranian community in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he and his fiancee are doctoral students. Doroudi's visa was revoked in 2023, but he wasn't given a reason. His fiancee says he was told that he was legally allowed to stay in the U.S. as long as he remained a student. Now, one Iranian doctoral student says the fear in her community "feels like we're returning back to Iran again." -
Alabama Public Radio newsroom student intern Barry Carmichael recently reported on a bill before the state legislature that would widen the incentives to bring entertainment projects to Alabama. That list of films also feature “The Life of Chuck,” based on a novel by Stephen King, which was shot along the Alabama Gulf coast. That includes a tie-in to “Star Wars” and the observance of Sunday's “May the 4th Be With You” Day, which is followed by Monday's "Revenge of the 5th." Both are a play on words related to the Sci Fi film classic series. -
Alabama is known as “football country.” But, this Saturday, a Thomasville grocery story owner has his sights on something other than the CFP College Football Championship. Robbie Norman owns Coal Battle--an unproven racehorse he reportedly bought for $70,000 two years ago. Coal Battle has paid back that investment with a shot at the so called “run for the roses.” -
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged "bias" in the broadcasters' reporting. -
President Donald Trump has offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at The University of Alabama. But his speech Thursday night was interspersed with complaints about his critics, accusations that judges were “interfering” with his agenda and attacks on his predecessor, Joe Biden. Democrats held a counterprotest a mile away that featured former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke and former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama. -
From Tokyo to Taipei to Manila, people across Asia marked May Day with marches and protests that spotlighted growing unease over U.S. President Donald Trump's policies and fears of global economic instability. -
A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center. Regan Prater was arrested last week and charged with one count of arson. Rosa Parks and John Lewis trained there. -
Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Mobile, Alabama native Alexis Herman, the first Black U.S. Secretary of Labor and a fierce advocate for workplace equality. She died last week at the age of 77. -
The White House is opening a weeklong celebration of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. Officials kicked off the promotional campaign Monday with a focus on his immigration crackdown. Trump is holding a rally in Michigan on Tuesday and delivering a commencement address at the University of Alabama on Thursday.
