Pat Duggins

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Roy Moore's push to restore an $8.2 million defamation verdict over a 2017 Senate race ad funded by a Democratic-aligned super PAC.Justices declined to hear Moore’s appeal of a lower court decision that vacated the large verdict.

It's hard to know where to start talking about former Alabama U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance. She's a fixture on MS Now, and she's been on PBS's Overheard with Evan Smith. The midterm elections are also just a few weeks away, and Vance is out with a new book titled "Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy.” Bear with me; I'm just getting warmed up. 2026 is also the 30th anniversary of the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. Vance helped build the legal case against bomber Eric Rudolph after a similar attack in Birmingham. We'll start off by talking about her connection to a national award-winning investigation right here at Alabama Public Radio. All of that and more on APR Notebook.

Sportswriters were predicting a tight game as Alabama faced its first ranked opponent of the 2026 season. Keelon Russell answered by passing for 285 yards and three touchdowns to go with a rushing score, and No. 7 Alabama routed 16th-ranked Mississippi State 56-23 on Saturday in a matchup of previously unbeaten teams.

President Donald Trump told a crowd in Mobile that he’ll be at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa next weekend. That's when the Crimson Tide faces Georgia in what sportswriters call one of the games to watch during the 2026 season. The heightened security that accompanies a Presidential visit is familiar territory for residents of Tuscaloosa. If Trump comes to see the upcoming Alabama game, it’ll be the fourth time, with three of those trips being to the "Druid City."

When Alabama visits Mississippi State, it's usually a bad day for the Bulldogs. Quarterback Kamario Taylor's dynamism and recent effectiveness in the clutch has provided Mississippi State's cowbell-ringing fans hope that perhaps Saturday will be different from every other time these teams have met since 2007.

Long before Christa Pike was brought into Tennessee’s execution chamber, prison leaders reviewed and approved a backup plan detailing exactly what to do if the first attempt at lethal injection failed. Alabama reportedly has its own “plan B” procedures if a lethal injection fails. But, after a series of botched executions, the state switched to nitrogen gas suffocation, although the constitutionality and acceptance of the process reportedly remains an issue.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance both hit the campaign trail, but they headed to heavily Republican areas to shore up lagging enthusiasm in their party ahead of next month’s midterm elections. Trump travels to Mobile after stops in Texas and Oklahoma, to kick off what the president said will be a 32-day campaign blitz leading up to November 3rd.

Alabama and two other Republican states went to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to challenge abortion “shield laws” protecting providers in three Democratic states, escalating the legal conflict over pills that account for a majority of abortions

A former Auburn staffer has been arrested on charges of stealing trade secrets from the football program and sending them to competitors, according to court records. David Rudolph Jenrath, 24, turned himself in to authorities Monday and was charged with two felonies: theft of trade secrets and computer tampering. He is being held on $15,000 bond at the Lee County Jail, according to police.

A 77-year-old Florida man convicted of beating a woman to death with a hammer is scheduled Tuesday to become the 16th person executed this year in the nation's busiest death chamber. Authorities began searching for Curtis Wilkie Beasley after a witness reported seeing him driving what turned out to be the victim’s car. Investigators determined Beasley had traveled to Miami and later relocated to Alabama,