MADISON, Ala. — A North Alabama homeowners association is pressing ahead with a plan to remove hundreds of Canada geese from a neighborhood lake, even after residents sued to stop the cull and another nearby HOA reversed a similar decision amid public pressure. Heritage Plantation in Madison approved a plan to kill up to 500…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal appeals court has left most of a sweeping order requiring Alabama to improve mental health care in its prisons in place, preserving much of the oversight in the long-running Braggs prison-mental-health case. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in late June, affirming the district court’s liability…

BEAVER, Utah — An Alabama firefighter was among three members of a federal wildland firefighting crew killed over the weekend while battling the Knowles Fire in western Colorado, as intense heat, wind and drought continue to drive dangerous wildfire conditions across the West and parts of the Midwest. The U.S. Forest Service identified the Alabama…

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, a move that could strip work authorization and legal protection from hundreds of thousands of people nationwide and reverberate in Alabama communities where Haitian migrants have become visible in places such as Sylacauga. The ruling gives the…

DECATUR, Ala. — The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reversed the conviction and death sentence of Jason Michael Osborn in a 2018 Decatur fatality, finding a prosecutor’s closing remark during trial violated Osborn’s constitutional rights and warrants returning the case to Morgan County Circuit Court. The appeals court said the prosecutor’s comment during…