Alabama

A labor official is confirming a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama based on objections to the first vote.

An estimated 300 to 400 packages of various sizes were found in a ravine near the small town of Hayden on Wednesday, the Blount County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Montgomery last month changed the name of Jeff Davis Avenue to Fred D. Gray Avenue.

An Alabama boy who weighed less than a pound at birth after his mother went into labor at only 21 weeks and one day of gestation has been certified as the world’s most premature baby to survive.

Police and Fire and Rescue dive teams searched the river on Monday when they found some of his clothes, authorities said.

The child, 1, was reported to have been unconscious for about a half-hour.

Ninth-grader Fred Grooms of Alabama was introduced to a group of referees before a football game, soon realizing one of them was his father, who is in the U.S. Army.

Willie B. Smith III, whose execution was delayed in February, was put to death Thursday in Alabama for a 22-year-old woman’s murder three decades ago.

The Huntsville Police Department released surveillance video showing Christina Nance entering the back of a police van. Days later, an officer found her dead.

An Alabama teenager sitting in his room died Friday evening after shots were fired outside of his home, police said.

The deaths of four people were blamed on Alabama flooding, officials said. Flash flood warnings and watches were issued Thursday for much of the state.

A lawsuit filed by an Alabama woman attributes her baby’s death to a ransomware attack at Springhill Medical Center, which resulted in diminished care.

A man tailgating outside an Alabama high school football game Friday night was struck by gunfire.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, who said it was “time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks” for this summer’s COVID-19 surge, has vowed to resist President Joe Biden’s executive orders on vaccines.

A mother is pleading for justice after her 4-year-old son was shot and killed over Labor Day weekend in Woodlawn on the South Side.

The Alabama Hospital Association says the surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations has depleted ICU capacity beyond a critical point — there are now more patients than beds.