New Anti-Immigrant Law Sinks Alabama Into Deeper Morass
How long does it take to flip flop and buckle under pressure from Tea Partiers? About a day, if you're Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley.
How long does it take to flip flop and buckle under pressure from Tea Partiers? About a day, if you're Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley.
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 05.22.2012
Corrections officers at the only women's prison in Alabama regularly sexually harass, abuse and even rape female inmates with few consequences, accord...
Posted 05.21.2012
This week's "The Colbert Report" took on immigration as one of the five hot button issues. Colbert blamed Alabama's controversial immigration bill, wh...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.18.2012
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landma...
Posted 05.17.2012
Federal authorities have indicted a Florida man for posing as Justin Bieber online, promising young girls backstage passes and free tickets in exchang...
The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 05.14.2012
A Buddhist monk has been charged with beating to death the head monk of his temple. According to NBC-affiliate WTVA, Vern Phdsamay, 32, was arrest...
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 05.11.2012
RAGLAND, Ala. — When 9-year-old Katelynn Arnold didn't appear right away after one of her frequent bicycle rides along her rural Alabama road, h...
Pamela H. Long | Posted 05.10.2012
Am I aiding and abetting, harboring and transporting? Lord, I hope so. I'm taking Matthew 25: 34-40 seriously. When meeting the physical and social needs of the "least of these" becomes an act of civil disobedience, I must disobey.
AP | Posted 05.06.2012
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Bo Jackson's 300-mile bike ride across Alabama ended Saturday in Tuscaloosa, with the Heisman Trophy winner having raised more tha...
The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 05.05.2012
Back in 2010, conservative politician Bill Johnson (R-Ala.) was focused on running for the governor. Two years later, his wife claims he is moving to ...
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.02.2012
ATLANTA -- Environmental groups urged an appeals court on Wednesday to block Shell from drilling 10 new deep-water wells off Alabama's coast, arguing ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.30.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Service Employees International Union continued its fight against Alabama immigration law HB 56 on Monday by filing a complaint with...
AP | Posted 04.29.2012
MOBILE, Ala. -- The University of South Alabama on Sunday night lifted a campus lockdown that it had imposed following an armed robbery at a college d...
Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.27.2012
Living in the southern edge of "Tornado Alley," I take these "weather phenomena" seriously and anytime a tornado watch is declared for our area, we keep a close eye on the Weather Channel -- and on those dark, threatening clouds.
Pamela H. Long | Posted 04.25.2012
I've had hundreds of conversations with people all over the political spectrum about the immigration "problem." What I see is that people make their decisions to support HB56 or to fight against it on several factors, but not on facts.
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 04.24.2012
HENAGAR, Ala. -- Pedaling past tornado-tossed homes and broken trees, Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson and about 100 bicyclists started a five-day, 30...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.22.2012
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the federal government's challenge to the Grand Canyon state's contro...
AP | Posted 04.19.2012
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is playing host to the national champion University of Alabama Crimson Tide football t...
Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 04.18.2012
The Liberty Counsel has established that the "pro-life" position is "pro-punishment," not just for doctors who perform abortions, but also for pregnant women who have no intention of ending their pregnancies and go to term.
Posted 04.12.2012
Somebody left behind a surprise in the bathroom at Walmart. A custodial employee working on Saturday found a "shake-and-bake" meth lab in the women...
Posted 04.11.2012
Despite being hit particularly hard by the recession, immigrants are experiencing faster job growth than native-born Americans in Alabama, Georgia and...
Daniel Klein | Posted 04.10.2012
In the event of a nuclear disaster, zombies taking over the planet, or industrial food collapse -- the subject of our latest film is who you'd want to be friends with.
Judith Browne Dianis | Posted 04.03.2012
It is clear that the Alabama law is accomplishing its goal of, as one of its sponsors stated, making life "unbearable" for immigrants.
Fred Redmond | Posted 04.04.2012
Daimler can say loudly to the lawmakers of Alabama that it will not stand for a repetition of history and it will not tolerate discrimination in the workplace. In doing so, the company will show that when it says it supports global, human and workers' rights, it means it.
Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 04.03.2012
While people in Mississippi were considering Proposition 26 and deciding whether fertilized eggs and embryos would be treated as entirely separate legal persons, a prosecutor and courts were addressing the same question behind the scenes, where voters have no role or voice.
Jon Blazer | Posted 05.24.2012