A state judicial education fund was used for non-education expenses including alcohol, excursions and entertainment, according to an audit of the Administrative Office of the Courts, leading a Decatur lawmaker to call for better management of the court system.
MONTGOMERY — Members of a legislative oversight committee last week raised concerns about the Alabama prison system's $1 billion inmate health care contract, questioning a state official about the cost, selection process and lawsuits filed against an earlier version of the company.
MONTGOMERY — The day the state began releasing some prison inmates under a 2021 law, a state senator pre-filed a bill to delay the early, supervised releases by nearly seven years.
Eleven inmates convicted in Morgan County, including one for murder, are among the 369 scheduled for early release under a 2021 law requiring inmates to spend the final few months of their prison sentence on supervised release, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections and Morgan Co…
The Alabama Department of Corrections has a proposed a $1.06 billion inmate health care contract with a new provider.
Gov. Kay Ivey and lawmakers are expected early in the upcoming legislative session to approve a plan for spending more than $1 billion of federal American Rescue Plan Act money.
As a direct product of home-schooling in Alabama and father of four current home-school students, educational choice is at the forefront of newly elected Rep. Ernie Yarbrough’s agenda.
MONTGOMERY — Several hundred Alabama inmates are set to be freed from prison under a 2021 sentencing law that sends prisoners to supervised release several months before their sentences are set to end.
MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey last week ordered state agencies to follow new procedures for responding to public record requests, changes intended to provide structure in a state with one of the weakest open records laws in the country.
A bill banning the teaching of “divisive concepts” in K-12 schools will be back in the Legislature this year after getting close to final passage in 2022.
A voter fraud indictment in Perry County this month has some GOP members questioning the possible impact on a close Alabama House race that hinged on one precinct in the Black Belt county.
Bibb County sheriff’s deputy Chris Poole was a dispatcher in 2015 when he started doing ride-alongs with Deputy Brad Johnson.
Following her inauguration remarks about improving education in her second term, Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed four executive orders related to student learning.
Sen. Arthur Orr says for years, he’s been told principals are the backbone of schools and essential to the education children receive.
MONTGOMERY — Seventy-one year-old Leola Harris is confined to a wheelchair, must undergo dialysis three times a week and is in end-stage renal failure, her attorney said. After serving 19 years of a 35-year murder sentence, the frail woman is not a threat to anyone and should be released to …
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey began her second full term on Monday, calling the state a place where "common sense and opportunity abound" in uncertain national times.
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