Challen Stephens

The first run of micro pistols in Huntsville came with the shape of the state etched into the stainless barrel and the words “Alabama Inaugural Product.”

An Alabamian is four times as likely as a Texan to end up on death row.

The changes in Alabama mirror the trend nationwide. A recent report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finds teen pregnancy at a record low.

Alabama is growing thanks to migration. Many states are not.

A national study on life expectancy measured against income finds that the men in the lowest income range in Walker and Autauga counties live on average less than 73 years. That’s the shortest life expectancy in the state

Jefferson County, by far the state’s most populous county, has barely changed since 2010. Officially, the Census estimate for Jefferson dropped by just one person from 2014 to 2015.

African American children account for a third of the 731,000 students in public schools across Alabama. Yet last week they accounted for 92 percent of the students in the state’s newly labeled “failing” schools.

The federal judge has finally unsealed the transcripts of a secret hearing last September, when a cadre of Madison police officers filed into the federal courthouse in Huntsville to testify against their senior officers.

One week into the first trial of Officer Eric Parker, suddenly the court’s inquiry became: Did the chief intimidate or threaten officers who supported Parker?

A federal judge on Wednesday cleared Madison Police Officer Eric Parker of federal criminal charges for the takedown of a 57-year-old Indian citizen, but Parker still faces a state charge for assault and a civil lawsuit.  Fellow officers in the...