Bill would allow probate judges to consider substance abuse in involuntary commitment

A bill pending in the Alabama Legislature would allow probate judges to consider someone’s substance abuse disorder along with mental illness when deciding involuntary commitments to state ... Read More

What passed in the Alabama Legislature: April 16-18, 2024

Here is a list of the legislation that passed the Alabama Legislature this week. House HB 384, sponsored by Rep. Ron Bolton, R-Northport, increases a fee for service documents by the Tuscaloosa County ... Read More

Cobb’s 1st female probate judge brings humanity to the bench

Cobb County Probate Court Chief Judge Kelli Wolk ... and the issuance of marriage licenses and weapons licenses, among other duties. Now in her 15th year on the job, she said she didn’t often ... Read More

Alabama becomes latest state to pass bill targeting diversity and inclusion programs

Alabama became the latest ... or continued lobbying, we won't stop fighting for the rights and freedoms of ALL Alabamians. We hope you stay in the fight with us for the long haul.” ... Read More

Marriage licenses: Sandusky County

The Sandusky County Probate Court recorded the following marriage license applications from Feb. 9 to March 11: Wilson Gary Aaron St., 59, janitor, and Rebecca Ann Sams, 50, customer service ... Read More

Marriage licenses

The following marriage license applications were filed recently in the Hancock County Clerk’s Office: Andrea Maynard, Indianapolis, to Blaine Bolding, Greenfield. Michael Raymond Spaulding ... Read More

78 dogs rescued: Dog fighting operation with treadmills, steroids uncovered in Alabama

Federal agents rescued 78 dogs and arrested an Alabama man this week after a grand ... The dogs' breeds were not immediately known. USA TODAY has reached out prosecutors as well as the federal ... Read More

US prosecutors spar with judge over order in Trump classified document case

United States prosecutors involved in the criminal indictment of Donald Trump in Florida have questioned a judge’s order that they indicate risks tipping the case in the former US president’s ... Read More

Alabama police shooting protester must ‘cease protesting,’ judge rules

“For one, she should cease protesting in the City of Decatur,” she told the judge. AL.com asked Wallace why ... and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in ... Read More

Democrat wins election in conservative Alabama after focus on abortion and IVF

Lands said that her win sent a clear message in the wake of Alabama’s near-total abortion ban, which came into effect after the US supreme court ... Lands told WHNT News 19 in the wake of ... Read More

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison — as judge rips him as power-obsessed scammer

The judge then blasted the fallen mogul as having an “apparent lack of any real remorse.” Bankman-Fried was also ordered to pay back ... s friendly face in the US before his platform’s ... Read More

Alabama hospital to stop IVF services at end of the year due to "litigation concerns"

"In order to assist families in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast who have initiated the process of IVF therapy in the hopes of starting a family, Mobile Infirmary has temporarily resumed IVF ... Read More