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A juvenile male was arrested Friday for his part in a shooting that killed two people and injured 12 others in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city this past weekend, police said. Montgomery police announced that the boy has been charged with capital murder and 12 counts of assault. His name wasn't immediately released. -
A federal judge refused to stop an upcoming nitrogen gas execution in Alabama saying the inmate was unlikely to prevail on claims that the method, which has been used multiple times, is unconstitutionally cruel. Chief U.S District Judge Emily Marks declined a request from Anthony Boyd to block his scheduled October 23rd execution. -
Heather Campbell lost her job working for a food bank over the summer because of federal funding cuts. Her husband serves as an officer in the Air Force in Alabama, but now he’s facing the prospect of missing his next paycheck because of the government shutdown. If lawmakers in Washington don't step in, Campbell’s husband won’t get paid on Wednesday. -
APR news told you last week about a plan to do away a red dye that used in food products. Student intern Samantha Triana introduced us to a Huntsville baker who’s already replaced chemical dyes for coloring made from vegetables. That’s not where the story ends. U.S. food producers also make things we eat using chemical additives. Some of them are not only unused in Europe, they’re against the law. -
A recent raid by ICE raid agents who rounded up South Korean workers in Georgia could have economic impact in Alabama, and also raise political issues in the Peach State. Namely, Georgia Brian Kemp be tough on immigration and still encourage foreign investment? The detentions sparked questions in South Korea about its relationship with the United States, especially when Hyundai and its partners, including in Alabama. -
Mike Repole isn't daunted or discouraged by the long odds facing pro spring football as a business model. The sports business entrepreneur is simply wired a bit differently, and wants to show it as the newest investor in the young United Football League. The other three existing markets are St. Louis, which has been the league's attendance darling; Washington, D.C.; and Birmingham, Alabama. -
Following a mass shooting that killed two people and wounded a dozen in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey said that the state will take a greater role in public safety efforts in the capital city. -
No one had been arrested as of Sunday afternoon following a mass shooting in downtown Montgomery. Police appealed to the public for information and sorted through a complicated crime scene that involved multiple people firing weapons in a crowd just after the Tuskegee University-Morehouse College rivalry football game ended blocks away. -
U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. Administration officials have advanced coal mine expansions and lease sales in Utah, North Dakota, Tennessee and Alabama, in addition to Montana and Wyoming. -
The latest college football rankings reveal a major shakeup. Penn State and Texas dropped out of the poll for the first time since 2022. That included a move by Alabama. -
Published reports say HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, junior fired the leader of the National Institutes of Health, Jeanne Marrazzo. The termination appeared related to her clashes over vaccine research in the early months of the Trump Administration. APR listeners may remember Marrazzo in her role as a professor and Director of the Infectious Disease Department at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. -
It’s tough to know where to start with singer/songwriter Jason Isbell. He has six Grammy awards. Variety Magazine once called him the “Poet Laureate of Rock.” Another critic compared Isbell’s writing style to William Faulkner and John Prine.During the COVID-19 pandemic, Isbell got a part in director Martin Scorsese’s Oscar nominated film Killers of the Flower Moon.And of course, Isbell founded the annual ShoalsFest musical festival, which is returning to Florence next week.We’ll touch on all that on APR notebook
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Number 10 ranked Alabama surely wants some measure of revenge against Vanderbilt, even if players and coaches won't acknowledge it. The Crimson Tide host the surprising and 16th-ranked Commodores on Saturday — and insist they won't get blindsided again. -
The ShoalsFest music festival returns to Florence next week. Six-time Grammy winner Jason Isbell is the driving force behind the event. His musical roots in the Shoals run deep. One of Isbell’s mentors was David Hood. He’s a bass guitarist with the group known as the Swampers. -
Alabama grocery shoppers have been hearing a lot about what goes into what they eat. The Trump administration is taking aim at artificial dyes that are used to make what goes on U.S. dinner plates more appealing. That’s expected to change in about two years when those chemical additives will be banned -
An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant work forces. -
Lieutenant Colonel George Hardy, the youngest fighter pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first Black military pilots, has died. He was 100. Hardy was the last surviving combat pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen who went overseas. -
A new study by the financial website Wallethub doesn’t have great news for Alabamians seeking healthcare. -
Ty Simpson passed for 276 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a score as No. 17 Alabama held on late to beat No. 5 Georgia 24-21 on Saturday night and hand the Bulldogs their first home loss in six years. Alabama has won three straight since opening the season with a 31-17 loss at Florida State. -
Alabama's first game away from home didn't go well. That puts much on the line for No. 17 Alabama when it visits No. 5 Georgia on Saturday night. The Crimson Tide's 31-17 season-opening loss at Florida State on August 30 left coach Kalen DeBoer's team with little margin for error. Alabama needs a win over Georgia (3-0, 1-0) to protect its College Football Playoff hopes. -
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said that she will not call a special session to draw new Alabama Senate districts after a federal judge ruled the current map violates the Voting Rights Act. -
Alabama is showing new signs that COVID-19 is still with us. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says test areas in Jefferson County are either high or very high. Levels are low nationally but certain states in the U.S. are part of a recent surge for the virus that causes the disease and Alabama is a part of those states. -
An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after apologizing to his victim's family and pleas from the woman's son to spare his life. -
Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery in what will be the nation's latest execution carried out with nitrogen gas. It is one of two executions scheduled Thursday in the United States. Texas plans to carry out a lethal injection on the same evening.
