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If You Can't Afford to Pay the Fine, Alabama Judge Will Take Your Blood
Andy Cush · 10/20/15 12:10PMAlabama, Which Requires ID to Vote, Stops Issuing New Licenses in Majority-Black Counties
Jay Hathaway · 10/02/15 11:25AMFacing a state budget reduction, Alabama’s Law Enforcement Agency opted to cut driver-licensing services at 31 satellite offices, serving 28 counties. Twelve to fifteen of the affected counties are in Alabama’s “black belt,” and every Alabama county where black people make up 75% or more of registered voters. That’s troubling because, since last year, Alabama has required government ID to vote.
Cops: Gunman Shoots Girlfriend, Infant, Pastor in Alabama Church
Hudson Hongo · 09/20/15 08:45PMAlabama Politician Claims God Told Him to Outlaw Saggy Pants
Hudson Hongo · 09/14/15 06:30PMRising inequality. Irreversible climate change. A possible third Grown Ups movie. These are just a few of the challenges facing America in the 21st Century. Luckily, our country is protected by our almighty creator who (when he isn’t smiting eponymous fast food chains) is apparently telling our legislators to address pressing issues like publicly exposed boxer shorts.
Hamilton Nolan · 09/10/15 12:20PM
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Won't Say Whether He Fucked a Staffer
Jordan Sargent · 09/03/15 08:55AMLast week, Dianne Bentley filed for divorce from her husband of 50 years, Robert Bentley, who has served as the Republican governor of Alabama since 2011. While Dianne Bentley’s initial petition refers to “an irretrievable breakdown” of her marriage, several Alabama media outlets—along with many local political insiders—have put forth a much more specific explanation: Dianne Bentley came to believe that her husband had an ongoing affair with a female staffer many decades his junior. No one involved—not the wife, the husband, or the alleged paramour—have attempted to refute the allegations.
Brendan O'Connor · 08/16/15 03:00PM
Alabama Cop Kept His Job After Musing About Murdering Black Man
Andy Cush · 08/04/15 10:56AMLawsuit: Alabama Cops Tasered, Bound and Gagged Teen Girl Having Seizure
Hudson Hongo · 07/14/15 07:30PMConfederate Flags Removed From Alabama Capitol on Governor's Orders
Taylor Berman · 06/24/15 11:01AMOfficers Accused of Hate Group Ties Suspended in Alabama
Hudson Hongo · 06/18/15 11:00PMShockingly, Man Can't Get Assault Charges Dropped by Whipping Out Dick
Jay Hathaway · 06/05/15 01:37PMAn Alabama man, accused of third-degree assault, attempted to wiggle out of his legal trouble by wiggling out of his pants. He reportedly showed the alleged assault victim his dumb penis and asked her to drop the charges. To everyone’s absolute and total shock, he was unable to make his problems disappear merely by waving his dick like a magic wand.
Today Is a Work Holiday in Alabama to Honor Jefferson Davis
Adam Weinstein · 06/01/15 08:58AMIf you needed to run yonder to Bessemer for that easement to cross Scuzz McWhorter’s field so’s you can dig up all the lead shot what gramma’s blasted out there from the kitchen porch over all these years, let it wait till Tuesday, son: Alabama done went down to the beach in honor of the Confederacy!
Cops: College Student Murdered Mother After Argument Over Grades
Hudson Hongo · 05/31/15 05:35PMAlabama Woman to Be Sentenced in Granddaughter's Running Death
Brendan O'Connor · 05/10/15 12:05PMAlabama Man Freed After 28 Years on Death Row
Brendan O'Connor · 04/04/15 09:05AMThe Road to Montgomery: Residents Recall the Historic Selma Marches
Ernest Wilkins · 03/21/15 11:10AMThe story of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been documented countless times. What hasn't been explored with the same scope is the effect these momentous events had on townspeople living in Selma during that period. Growing up, my mom shipped me to Selma every summer to stay with my grandmother, Bernice McMillian, choosing the familiar streets of where she grew up instead of letting me run wild in Chicago. It's as big a part of who I am as anything else. In the interest of posterity, I reached out to people who were around during the events of that month.
Walmart Shoplifting Suspect Escapes By Kicking Through the Ceiling
Aleksander Chan · 03/20/15 08:12AMA suspected—and determined—shoplifter at a Walmart in Mobile, Ala. managed to escape store security Wednesday by climbing up into the store's ventilation system. From there, he crawled his way to the store's entrance, kicked through the ceiling, jumped down, and fled.
Obama: "We Know the March Is Not Over Yet"
Brendan O'Connor · 03/07/15 04:45PMPresident Barack Obama delivered a speech on Saturday from the Edmund Pettus Bridge—named for a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and site of what came to be known as "Bloody Sunday"—addressing race in America. "What happened in Ferguson may not be unique," he said, "but it's no longer endemic. It's no longer sanctioned by law or custom, and before the civil rights movement, it most surely was."