Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states. With a total of 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of inland waterways, Alabama has among the most of any state.
Though at the center of Alabama's deteriorating prison system, incarcerated individuals are rarely heard. These are their stories.
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Steven Reed made history Tuesday when he was sworn in as the first African-American mayor to lead Montgomery, Alabama, the first capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Jericka Duncan spoke.. CBS News - Published
A video shared on social media by an attendee shows crowds cheering and a "Four more years!" chant can be heard as President Donald Trump attends a University of Alabama versus Louisiana State football..
Bloomberg said in March that he had decided against running for president in 2020. The New York Times, which first reported the expected Alabama filing, reports Bloomberg has been privately weighing a..
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will run for his old Senate seat in Alabama. According to Politico, there are several Republicans running against Democratic Sen. Doug Jones. Jones came into..
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce on Thursday he is running next year. Reuters reports Sessions is seeking to regain his old U.S. Senate seat from Alabama. In 2016, Sessions was the..
Montgomery, the capital of the southern U.S. state of Alabama, known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement for its 1950s bus boycotts over segregated seating, has elected the first black mayor..
Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire on Thursday gave the House Intelligence Committee his assurance that once security clearances are given to the whistleblower's counsel that the..
It was literally freezing in Florida and Alabama and parts of Maine, Michigan and New York were digging out a foot of snow. Blame an Arctic air mass.
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The reward is growing in the case of a missing 3-year-old Alabama girl. It's up to $33,000 in the search for Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney. CBS News - Published
There is a critical new clue in the disappearance of a 3-year-old girl from Alabama. Police hope a newly released surveillance video helps lead them to her. Michelle Miller reports. CBS News - Published
A wintry weather pattern was rolling across a wide swath of the nation, threatening to break hundreds of records and a freeze as far south as Alabama.
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LSU has taken the No. 1 spot in the Amway Coaches Poll after beating then-No. 1 Alabama. Minnesota moved in the top 10 after beating Penn State.
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LSU coach Ed Orgeron made an emphatic statement after the Tigers beat No. 1 Alabama on the road, saying "This is our house from now on."
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No. 2 LSU beat No. 1 Alabama in a matchup of the top-ranked teams in college football behind the play of quarterback Joe Burrow.
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the "Republicans have never been so united" and that the "witch hunt continues" as he left the White House with First Lady Melania Trump to travel to.. USATODAY.com - Published
Alabama and LSU meet in a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown that will have College Football Playoff and Heisman implications. USA TODAY staff picks the games.
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Advisers to the former New York City mayor say he will submit paperwork on Friday afternoon to enter the 2020 presidential primary in Alabama, the first state with a filing deadline. NYTimes.com - Published
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday he wants to reclaim his old Senate seat from Alabama, where he's been a conservative icon and dominant vote-getter since the 1990s. (Nov. 8)
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Sean Sullivan, CBSN political contributor and National politics reporter for the Washington Post, joins "Red and Blue" to discuss the news of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg joining the.. CBS News - Published
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking steps to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Bloomberg, 77, has dispatched aides to Alabama to file paperwork in the state to run as.. CBS News - Published
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is poised to run for his longtime Senate seat in Alabama, challenging Senator Doug Jones, who is considered the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate. CBS News - Published
Alabama coach Nick Saban has spent time with several U.S. presidents over the years, and he shared some memories ahead of Donald Trump's visit.
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Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and joins Margaret Brennan to discuss how to end the government shutdown. CBS News - Published
Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, joins Margaret Brennan to discuss his new book, "Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights." CBS News - Published
The College Football Playoff race and the bowl projections for the postseason will become clearer after Alabama and LSU meet on Saturday in Tuscaloosa
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Police in Alabama believe there's evidence that a missing college student is a victim of foul play. Aniah Haley Blanchard is the stepdaughter of a UFC fighter. Omar Villafranca has the latest. CBS News - Published
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joins moderator Margaret Brennan to talk about the anti-abortion law passed in Alabama and the Trump administration's immigration policies. CBS News - Published
By day, Austin Perine is a mild-mannered four-year-old from Birmingham, Alabama. But once a week, he turns into this alter ego: a superhero set on feeding as many homeless people as possible. Steve.. CBS News - Published
Born into slavery around 1853 in rural Alabama, Bill Traylor worked as a sharecropper for nearly five decades after the Civil War and Emancipation. But in his 80s, without work and homeless in.. CBS News - Published
For years the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," and a best friend of "In Cold Blood" author Truman Capote, had researched and written a true-crime novel based on a series of deaths in Alabama, for.. CBS News - Published
Eleanor Baker, a widow, was sitting alone at Brad's Barbeque in Oxford, Alabama, when she was approached by three young men, in a meeting she told Steve Hartman had to have been arranged by the.. CBS News - Published
Oprah Winfrey reports on the Alabama memorial dedicated to thousands of African-American men, women and children lynched over a 70-year period following the Civil War. CBS News - Published
Democrats running for president in 2020 are coming out against Alabama's restrictive abortion bill. The measure would virtually outlaw the procedure, without exceptions for rape and incest. CBSN.. CBS News - Published
Jim Farmer, who played six seasons in the NBA and was a University of Alabama standout, was arrested on human trafficking charge in Tennessee.
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A federal judge blocked Alabama on Tuesday from enforcing the strictest abortion laws in the country, which were due to come into effect next month and would ban all abortions unless a mother's health.. Reuters - Published
LSU is now No. 2 in the Amway Coaches Poll behind Alabama, while Oklahoma and Notre Dame both tumbled after losses on the road.
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As Ohio State rolls and Oklahoma falls, the SEC dreams of getting two teams into College Football Playoff. Out West, Oregon and Utah climb back in.
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An Alabama couple have been charged with capital murder in the suffocation death of 3-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney who was found in a dumpster
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The discovery of the toddler, known as Cupcake, came 10 days after she went missing from a birthday party, the police said. A man and a woman in custody face kidnapping and capital murder charges. NYTimes.com - Published
Birmingham, Alabama investigators searching through garbage found the body of a 3-year-old girl who was missing more than a week, and authorities are charging two people with murder, police said.. USATODAY.com - Published
At a small university near Birmingham, Alabama, Steve Hartman found a big guy: 6'8", 310-pound senior offensive lineman George Grimwade, a dominating force on the Samford Bulldog football team, who.. CBS News - Published
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