MUSCLE SHOALS — A 4-1 vote by city council members Monday means the city's 3-mile police jurisdiction will shrink by 2½ miles as Jan. 1, 2025.
FLORENCE — A man who escaped the Lauderdale County Detention Center twice and tried to shoot a Florence Police officer entered a plea Tuesday that calls for him to serve a life sentence in prison.
MUSCLE SHOALS — New, state-of-the-art special needs' playgrounds are under construction at Muscle Shoals Middle School and Florence High School.
TUSCUMBIA — A baby box funded by the Colbert County Children's Policy Council has been constructed and is expected to be installed at the new Muscle Shoals Fire Station No. 4 very soon, a fire department spokesman said.
FLORENCE — Gary Baker said keyboardist Chalmers Davis was one of the first musicians he met when he arrived in the Shoals in 1977. He will remember him as always happy, always positive, and someone who was just fun to…
MONTGOMERY — An Alabama senator is proposing one-time bonuses of $3,000 for public high school teachers who earn a new history and civics endorsement.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former Memphis police officer testified Tuesday that he punched a “helpless” Tyre Nichols at least five times while two colleagues held his arms and said “hit him,” then lied to his supervisor about their use of…
WASHINGTON — Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida law enforcement officials will launch their own criminal investigation into the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that will run parallel to the federal probe, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday.
Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people's lives.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday decried Republican Donald Trump for inflammatory rhetoric about migrants in Springfield, Ohio and on other topics, saying voters should make sure he “can’t have that microphone again."
A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if a federal safety agency had investigated his complaint.
WASHINGTON — American consumers and home buyers, business people and political leaders have been waiting for months for what the Federal Reserve is poised to announce this week: That it's cutting its key interest rate from a two-decade peak.
MARIETTA, Ga. — The election director in Cobb County, an Atlanta suburb where votes will be fiercely contested in this year's presidential race, recently organized a five-hour training session. The focus wasn't solely on the nuts-and-bolts of running this year's…
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy assured state election officials in a letter released Monday that he'll work with them to handle their warnings of problems with election mail delivery during the primary season, while insisting that the Postal Service will…
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, despite the headwinds that prompted him to pull the bill…
DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A flame that towered over a southeast Houston suburb subsided Tuesday but was still burning following a pipeline explosion that happened when a vehicle drove through a fence along a parking lot and struck an…
NEW YORK — Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is launching her own radio talk show next week on SiriusXM that's set to air once a week at least through the inauguration of a new president.
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs presided over a sordid empire of sexual crimes, coercing and abusing women for years while using blackmail and shocking acts of violence to keep his victims in line, according to an indictment unsealed…
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats — the vast majority that officials said came from overseas — after former President Donald Trump and his running mate,…