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There is reportedly an option for Mobile Police Chief Paul Prine to keep a job with the city. The news comes after Mayor Sandy Stimpson requested the city council to adopt an ordinance on Tuesday, April 23 to remove Prine from his position after what Stimpson described as "irreconcilable differences" with Prine.
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The Mobile City Council will consider a resolution authorizing the removal of Paul Prine as Police Chief on Tuesday, April 23. This comes as the city asked former U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown to conduct a report on policies, procedures and training within the Mobile Police Department after concerns were raised from the community.
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A new federal rule seeks to clarify that a law against sex discrimination at schools includes gender identity, too. In Alabama, legislation is being considered that would define who is considered a man or a woman under state law, saying it must be based on reproductive systems and not gender identity.
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Birmingham restaurants are participating in an annual fundraising event that helps support services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Alabama. This is the Magic City’s 15th year celebrating Dining Out For Life, a national event also observed in part of Alabama, taking place Thursday, April 25.
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Auburn is gearing up for what’s billed as the city’s largest free outdoor festival of the year. The 23rd annual Auburn CityFest is back in town Saturday, April 27 at Keisel Park. The 2024 theme is Space Adventures.
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For Pride Month 2024, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ creatives who live in Montgomery and its surrounding communities. The MMFA is currently taking art submissions for the Museum Shop Popup: Show Your Pride event through Friday, April 26.
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Lou Groza Award winner Graham Nicholson plans to transfer to Alabama. The former Miami of Ohio All-American, who won the award as the nation’s top placekicker last season, announced his commitment on social media.
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Alabama joins the globe in celebrating the 54th annual Earth Day on April 22. The state has something for everybody, whether that’s the Appalachian Mountains, Cathedral Caverns or Gulf coast beaches. The state’s nine national parks offer a unique experience of variety and biological diversity.
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Athletes of all ages and abilities can register for the 41st Alabama State Games, happening June 7-9 across Birmingham and Jefferson County. The Alabama Sports Festival (ASF) Foundation is a non-profit that hosts the State Games.
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The application deadline is approaching for interested Alabama 6th and 7th grade students to apply to the Estuary Corps Middle School Program. Middle school students are invited to engage in activities that explore and improve the Mobile Bay Estuarine system during the three-day program.
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Upcoming Beef and Forage Field Days offer Alabama producers access to industry information, researchAlabama cattle and forage producers are being invited to "beef up" their herd and pasture management. 2024 Beef and Forage Field Days dates and locations included April 23 at the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center and May 3 at the E.V. Smith Research Center.
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The University of Alabama basketball team is losing players to the NBA Draft and the transfer portal. It may soon gain a point guard.
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An Atlas-V rocket, built at the United Launch Alliance factory in Decatur, is on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida’s Atlantic coast. Its job is to carry two astronauts aboard the new Boeing Starliner spacecraft to orbit. A successful mission will add astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore to an elite group of people to have flown on three types of space vehicles.
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The United Auto Workers' overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country. There may be a tougher fight leading up to a vote in Alabama.
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Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW's renewed effort to organize nonunion factories. All eyes now turn to Alabama’s North American Mercedes Benz plant, which is set for a union vote next month.
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The warden of an Alabama prison was arrested on drug charges, officials with the state prison system confirmed.
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NASA is preparing for a planned May launch of an Atlas-V rocket, built in Alabama. The booster is set to carry the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner space capsule to the International Space Station. Once the vehicle docks with the orbiting outpost, there will be a meeting of two “penguins."
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MONOPOLY has unveiled a new version of the classic board game that features Birmingham, making it the first time that an authorized version of the game has been based in Alabama.
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The Better Business Bureau of North Alabama is a non-profit who has been hosting the annual ‘Shred Day’s.’ The event will consist of four opportunities across the state each held on a Saturday throughout the months of April and May.
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The Alabama Senate advanced legislation aimed at strengthening the state's weak open records law by setting deadlines to respond to requests to view public documents.
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The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of a man convicted of killing a delivery driver who stopped at an ATM. Justices granted the Alabama attorney general's request to authorize an execution date for Keith Edmund Gavin. Governor Kay Ivey will set the day of the execution, which will be carried out by lethal injection.
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An Alabama Senate committee voted down a bill that would have required the public release of police body-worn camera video and dash camera footage.
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Alabama plans to buy the Foley Beach Express Bridge and eliminate tolls to drive across it. The Alabama Department of Transportation plans to purchase the bridge from the Baldwin County Bridge Company for $57 million. The thoroughfare is a private toll bridge that provides an alternate route to state beaches.
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Thousands of workers at Tuscaloosa’s Mercedes-Benz factory near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote next month on whether they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union.