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Alabama’s Prison Health Contract Change Exposes a Deeper System in Crisis
MONTGOMERY, Ala — Alabama’s decision to cancel its billion-dollar prison health care contract with YesCare and replace it with Birmingham-based NaphCare is more than a vendor swap. It is the latest sign of a corrections system that has been under sustained scrutiny for brutal conditions, inadequate medical care and a long record of failure that…
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Huntsville Scientist’s Death Fuels Online Conspiracy Talk, but Key Claims Don’t Hold Up
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Online speculation surrounding the death of Alabama researcher Amy Eskridge has revived a long-running conspiracy theory that links obscure scientists, classified research and anti-gravity claims, but the public record does not support the more sensational accusations, and some of the names now attached to the theory do not fit the narrative cleanly.…
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Opinion: How Fringe Rhetoric Became Republican Doctrine
If the latest moves by allies of Donald Trump and the Department of Justice against the Southern Poverty Law Center feel familiar, that’s because they are. This is not a new fight. It is the continuation of a decades-long campaign to discredit any institution willing to call extremism by its name. The SPLC, founded in…
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1 Dead, 1 Wounded in West Birmingham Shootout
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — One man was killed and another seriously wounded in a hail of gunfire that erupted in a west Birmingham alley Monday night, police said, as the city’s homicide rate continues to plummet from last year’s record high. Birmingham officers and fire crews rushed to the 1500 block of Warrior Road shortly before…
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2 Injured in Early-Morning Shooting at Birmingham’s Nana Funks Nightclub
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — One person suffered serious injuries and another was grazed by gunfire in a shooting early Sunday inside a nightclub in Birmingham’s Lakeview District, police said. The Birmingham Police Department responded to reports of shots fired around 3:12 a.m. at Nana Funks, where officers found two people with gunshot wounds, according to multiple…
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ICE Raid on Elderly French Widow in Alabama Sparks Outrage Over Estate Vendetta
ANNISTON, Ala. — In a stunning dawn raid that has ignited fury across two continents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swooped into the quiet Anniston home of 86-year-old French widow Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, yanking her from her bed in her nightgown amid a bitter family feud over her late American husband’s estate. The April 2026 incident…
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