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A few hours before the city of Prattville’s annual Christmas parade was to start, a federal judge ordered the city to allow an LGBTQ pride group’s float to be included. Prattville Pride called the order “a powerful affirmation of the importance of visibility, representation, and inclusion for all members of our community,” in a Facebook post. “The Christmas parade is a cherished holiday tradition, and we are excited to celebrate alongside our neighbors and friends in the spirit of love, joy, and unity.” “While we celebrate this important step forward, we must also acknowledge the challenges and hateful rhetoric that...

I'm not saying you should never call the FBI. I mean, I'd usually advise against it. But you can imagine that sometimes it's warranted. Sometimes. Probably not this time, though? The Ider Police Department is seeking information from the public regarding vandalism involving homophobic and racist remarks at a park in Ider. IPD told News 19 that the department is offering a cash reward to anyone who can provide information about the newly renovated park being vandalized.

A groundbreaking lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas accuses financial giants BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street of colluding to manipulate the U.S. coal market. The case, spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and supported by 10 other state attorneys general, alleges that these firms have used their substantial ownership stakes in major coal producers to suppress competition and artificially raise energy prices. The states listed as plaintiffs are” Texas Alabama Arkansas Indiana Iowa Kansas Missouri Montana Nebraska West Virginia Wyoming According to the 108-page complaint, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively...

The state is scheduled to execute Carey Dale Grayson, 50, who was convicted of killing a hitchhiker in 1994. Alabama's use of nitrogen continues to stir debate.An Alabama inmate convicted in a 1994 murder is poised to die Thursday in the state's third nitrogen hypoxia execution this year. The emerging execution method, which involves breathing solely nitrogen gas through a mask while being deprived of oxygen, continues to draw concerns over the possibility of prolonged suffering and whether there is an unconstitutional risk of added pain. But a federal appeals court this week rejected arguments made by the condemned man's...

Calvert, 26, was arrested in February after a coffee container-like vessel containing insulation material soaked in a lighter fluid, a mortar, firecrackers and nails was discovered outside the Alabama Attorney General's Office. ... Investigators connected Calvert to the crime after discovering stickers he placed on buildings near the scene. The stickers depicted far-left terrorist sympathies, such as "Support your local antifa."

President-elect Donald Trump is expected controversially to move Space Command headquarters out of Colorado to Alabama. Space Command, separate from the Trump-created Space Force, has been the center of a yearslong dispute about whether to put its headquarters in Colorado or Alabama. Trump has favored the deep-red Alabama, while Biden favored the deep-blue Colorado. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) told Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5 that Trump would settle the dispute as one of his first moves in office. "President Trump said in the campaign that he was going to reverse that decision if elected," he said, referring to Biden's decision...

As Alabama's leaders lament the ongoing influx of migrants entering the state, one organization that facilitates resettling refugees in Alabama claims to currently partner with the state legislature and has former House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, now the Madison County Commission chairman, and Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle on its board. Much has been made in recent months, both in Alabama and nationwide, of the proliferation of immigrants flooding into smaller towns and communities. After several reports of specifically Haitian migrants arriving in towns like Athens and Sylacauga, Gov. Kay Ivey and lawmakers began speaking out against the influx, blaming the Biden...

Alligators are one of the most dangerous animals in the US. The states that have the most attacks are Louisiana and Florida given the population of alligators located there. However, as alligators have begun to migrate to places in Tennessee and have even been located in Lake Eerie, that may change. Even the biggest alligator ever found was located in a surprising state, not Louisiana and Florida, showing that states that may never have dealt with an alligator population may have no choice but to do so in the future. Louisiana and Florida each have more than one million alligators...

Link at X.com. Shenanigans at Prattville Christian Academy.Response from the school:

Alabama has executed a man who dropped his appeal and asked to be put to death for murdering five people in their beds. Derrick Dearman, 36, admitted to killing five members of his estranged girlfriend's family with an axe and gun during a drug-fueled rampage August 20, 2016. He was pronounced dead at 6.14pm on Thursday at Holman Prison in southern Alabama, his last words a plea for forgiveness. 'Forgive me. This is not for me. This is for you... I've taken so much,' he said while strapped to the gurney in the execution chamber. He closed by telling his...

Traffic was shut down on Interstate 65 in Autauga County[Alabama] Friday afternoon after a chase involving a woman wanted in a shooting in Texas, officials said. The chase and standoff started after the woman taken into custody in Autauga County allegedly shot someone when she pursued her ex-boyfriend to the Bellaire, Texas police station, officials said. According to Bellaire police , dispatchers received a 911 call at 2:30 a.m. Friday on a report of a woman in a Mercedes SUV following a group of individuals in a Ford truck. The occupants of the Ford reported that the female was the...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Sedrick Alexander ran for two touchdowns, Randon Fontenette scored on a Pick-6 and Diego Pavia outplayed Heisman Trophy candidate Jalen Milroe as Vanderbilt stunned Alabama 40-35 Saturday for the Commodores' first win over the nation's top-ranked team. Vanderbilt (3-2, 1-1) was 0-60 all-time vs. AP Top-5 teams before Saturday, the longest such streak in the Poll Era (since 1936). The Commodores hadn't beaten Alabama on the field in 40 years, but they snapped a 23-game skid by making big play after big play to give coach Clark Lea his alma mater's biggest win ever.

Michael Jennings, a pastor arrested while tending his out-of-town neighbors’ yard, can sue the city of Childersburg, Alabama, and three police officers involved in the case. On Friday (Sept. 27), a three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower-court ruling that had dismissed Jennings’ lawsuit. The officers aren’t protected by qualified immunity, the panel said, because they had no probable cause to arrest Jennings. Jennings, who is Black, was confronted by police in May 2022, after a white woman called 911 to report a “suspicious individual” in a neighboring yard. The pastor, who identified...

Most of the media and other Democrats say we don’t need people to prove their citizenship to vote and we don’t need to have photo IDs because it is already illegal for non-citizens to register to vote, and there is no evidence that there is a risk. Yet when Alabama finds 3,251 non-citizens registered to vote after they were given noncitizen identification numbers by DHS, and its Secretary of State wants to remove them from the voting rolls, the Justice Department, under the orders of Biden-Harris, sues them. They say it is too close to the election to remove them....

A video going viral on X details how a Venezuelan doctor who came to America as a refugee under the Trump administration has been receiving voter registration emails from the Harris-Walz campaign. The TikTok video in question features a physician explaining how her friend, a gastroenterologist from Venezuela, has been receiving voter registration emails from the Harris campaign despite the fact she cannot legally vote. “I have a friend from Venezuela…she’s a gastroenterologist in Venezuela…we were talking about the 2020 election today and she showed me today, and she told me, ‘oh, I know they cheated in the 2020 because...

The Justice Department announced a lawsuit Friday against Alabama, arguing the state’s effort to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls came too close to the November election. The department asked a federal judge to order Alabama to put the names — which the state says are ineligible voters — back on the active voter lists. The department said some actual citizens were sent notices that they had been moved to the inactive voter file. Alabama announced the move on Aug. 13. That was 84 days before the election, violating the federal National Voter Registration Act, better known as motor-voter, which...

Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method ... has been used in the country. ... Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. local time at a south Alabama prison. Miller was convicted of killing three men — Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis — in 1999 and the state had previously attempted to execute him by lethal injection in 2022. ...

Four people were killed and at least 21 others injured when “multiple shots” erupted in a popular entertainment district of Birmingham, Alabama Saturday night as police assured they will “hunt down” those responsible. Birmingham Police said it was responding to the scene where “multiple people were shot with possibly multiple casualties just after 11 p.m. near 20th Street and Magnolia Ave. in Five Points South, a popular nightlife section of the city. The Five Points South area has numerous entertainment venues, restaurants and bars and often attracts large crowds on Saturday nights.

A Jefferson County man with a lengthy criminal history has been convicted of soliciting the murder of federal prosecutor in Birmingham. The federal jury on Thursday found Michael Roman Black, 32, guilty of threatening to murder and soliciting the murder of a federal prosecutor, and for making false statements to a federal agent, according to a Friday announced by Acting Middle District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Kevin P. Davidson. 0:12 / 0:30 Middle District prosecutors tried the case since the threat was against a prosecutor in Birmingham. Black, who has had addresses in Bessemer and Hueytown, was previously convicted in...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is plowing ahead with his plan to avert a government shutdown despite GOP opposition that is large enough to tank the effort, setting the stage for a potentially embarrassing vote on the House floor that will foil the Speaker’s funding strategy. At least six Republicans, including hard-line conservatives and defense hawks, have said they will vote against Johnson’s government funding gambit, which pairs a six-month continuing resolution (CR) with a Trump-backed bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Republicans can only afford to lose four of their members if all Democrats vote “no” and there is...