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By Associated PressTuscaloosa AL – The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office will be able to hire five more deputies five less than requested and all county…

Montgomery – Two-year Chancellor Bradley Byrne says he's worried the two-year college system's budget will be unfairly and drastically cut as payback for…

Montgomery – Lieutenant Governor Jim Folsom Junior says the Legislature needs to rewrite Alabama's tax on oil and natural gas production. He said that was…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s unemployment rate has dropped to a record 2.8%.A statement released Friday by the state labor agency says the…

The Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious admissions are unconstitutional in a pair of cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read the full opinion.

Female laborers are starting to speak up about the hidden price some pay to keep their jobs in the fields: enduring sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape. It can be emotionally difficult for any rape victim to press criminal charges, but female farm workers have to overcome additional cultural hurdles. (This story originally aired on Nov. 6, 2013 on All Things Considered.)

The Beauty Shop ladies weigh in on President Obama's national security nominations. They also talk about whether reality television has sunk to a new low this season with shows about rural partying and baby mamas.

The British comedian says she started doing impressions when she was 6 years old. Her new sketch comedy show airs on HBO.

An estimated 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica raised alerts for the Pacific coasts of Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru.

Friday's news from the Labor Department offers a snapshot of an economy that's treading water. Employers added 175,000 jobs in May, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent. The numbers show "the ongoing slog in the labor market," one economist said.