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He belatedly said he came to regret the segregationist stances that helped him rise to power in the 1950s.

In Greene County, officials are debating whether Alabama's casino legislation would be a boon or a bust for a county that has come to rely upon revenue from five bingo halls to support services. In Lowndes County, officials are wondering why their small county -- which has two bingo facilities in White Hall -- have been completely left out.

Proposal in Alabama to up protection for Confederate statues KIM CHANDLER , Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama lawmaker who disputes that slavery was the cause of the Civil War has proposed fining cities $10,000 a day for taking down Confederate and other longstanding monuments, a bill that drew contentious debate on Wednesday. The House State Government Committee held a public hearing on the bill by Republican Rep. Mike Holmes of Wetumpka that would dramatically increase fines for violating the 2017 Memorial Preservation Act. Current law levies a flat...

Alabama Newscenter Few people can say they knew Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks when that internationally celebrated pair were average citizens. Fred D. Gray Sr. can. The 90-year-old legendary civil rights lawyer has known most of the most-respected figures in the modern movement toward equality for Blacks. He represented Parks and King, persuading judges to make rulings that helped shape both of their lives. Gray’s courtroom victories led to many of the most important gains in reducing the vast disparity in rights that was a reality in America when he opened his first law office ...

The live virtual event set for March 9 includes an enriching Q&A with journalist John Archibald about his debut memoir, available for pre-order now at Books-A-Million.