Alabama

Policy

Alabama House Passes Ban on Abortion After 6 Weeks

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.5.2014 3:17 PM

Culture

"Suspicious Package" That Shut Down Parts of Alabama Air Force Base Contained Food

Got a false positive in screening

Reason Staff | 1.31.2014 3:55 PM

Politics

DOJ Accuses Alabama Officials of Fostering Culture of Sexual Abuse at Prison

Officers allegedly forced inmates to perform sex acts to receive sanitary supplies

Reason Staff | 1.22.2014 6:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Ala. Grants Posthumous Pardons to 'Scottsboro Boys'

Race-fueled rape case from the 1930s

Reason Staff | 11.21.2013 2:40 PM

Policy

Ala. Man Loses Fight to Bury Wife in Front Yard

City forces her body to be exhumed

Reason Staff | 11.15.2013 2:00 PM

Politics

GOP Establishment Worried About Outcome of Special Alabama Congressional Primary

Dean Young is known for making controversial comments

Reason Staff | 11.4.2013 10:30 AM

Sentencing

Alabama Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Castrate Sex Offenders

And make them pay for it

Reason Staff | 10.17.2013 5:00 PM

Politics

Teen Committed Suicide After Potentially Facing Sex Crime Charges For Prank

Zenon Evans | 10.11.2013 4:57 PM

Policy

Teen Who Risked Being Put on Sex Offender Registry After Streaking Prank Kills Himself

Christian Adamek, 15

Reason Staff | 10.11.2013 10:20 AM

Policy

South Carolina, Alabama End Practice of Segregating HIV-Positive Inmates

Last states to do so

Reason Staff | 10.4.2013 3:00 PM

Culture

More Than 350 Dogs Rescued from Dog-Fighting Ring

12 arrested, $500,000 seized in Alabama

Reason Staff | 8.27.2013 12:37 PM

Politics

Alabama GOP Votes Against Punishing Head of College Republicans for Defending Gay Marriage

Stephanie Petelos criticized some party members' reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling on DOMA

Reason Staff | 8.24.2013 5:03 PM

Policy

Alabama Judge Allows Lesbian Mother Visitation Rights

Overnight restrictions will not be in place

Reason Staff | 7.31.2013 1:08 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Alabama Immigration Law Case

Federal block to stop enforcement of "harboring" provision remains in place

Reason Staff | 4.29.2013 3:10 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Will Not Review Alabama Immigration Law

White House has said federal immigration laws trump state laws

Reason Staff | 4.29.2013 10:04 AM

Alabama

Explosions Rock Fuel Barge in Alabama

On fire all night

Reason Staff | 4.25.2013 8:04 AM

Policy

Alabama Legislators Need to Fix New Eminent Domain Law

John Ross | 4.6.2013 10:00 AM

Alabama

Alabama Moving Closer to Legalizing Homebrewing

True brew

Reason Staff | 4.3.2013 12:36 PM

Politics

Alabama Senate Passes Abortion Bill

Would require that an Alabama-licensed doctor be present at every abortion

Reason Staff | 4.3.2013 7:16 AM

Policy

Alabama Brings Back Eminent Domain for Private Gain

John Ross | 3.31.2013 11:00 AM

Politics

Alabama Judge Blocks Governor from Signing School Choice Legislation

Can judges do that?

Reason Staff | 3.7.2013 7:30 PM

Policy

Alabama Education Association Wants Kids in Failing Schools

Union sues to block school choice tax credit program

John Walters | 3.5.2013 12:45 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Hearing Alabama Voting Law Case

Alabama county officials no longer want to have to seek approval before changing election law

Reason Staff | 2.27.2013 2:44 PM

Politics

Alabama House Passes Abortion Bill

More regulations for abortion clinics

Reason Staff | 2.20.2013 7:24 AM

Culture

The Carnival Triumph Arrives in Mobile, AL

Disabled cruise ship did not have working toilets or electricity

Reason Staff | 2.15.2013 7:24 AM

Alabama

Being Freed From Hostage Situation "Greatest Birthday Gift" for Alabama Five-Year-Old

Turns 6 tomorrow

Reason Staff | 2.5.2013 9:24 AM

Policy

Sources: Alabama Boy Freed; Kidnapper Dead

End of weeklong hostage situation

Reason Staff | 2.4.2013 5:06 PM

Policy

Alabama Hostage Crisis Enters Seventh Day

Jimmy Lee Dykes is holding a 5-year-old hostage in a rural bunker

Reason Staff | 2.4.2013 9:56 AM

Civil Liberties

Alabama Hostage Crisis Enters Fifth Day

No sign of letting 5-year-old boy go

Reason Staff | 2.2.2013 12:03 PM

Alabama

Stand Off With Alabama Man Holding Six-Year-Old Hostage Continues

Began when he shot a school bus driver and demanded a child, any child

Reason Staff | 1.31.2013 9:40 AM

Civil Liberties

Ala. Sex Ed Law Still Tells Kids Homosexuality Is a Crime

State refuses to strike down laws that contradict Supreme Court ruling from 2003

Reason Staff | 1.15.2013 10:52 PM

Civil Liberties

Man Accuses Police of Staging Son's Suicide

Says cops are trying to cover up a brutal beating

Reason Staff | 12.19.2012 1:16 PM

Policy

Two Alabama Men Arrested on Terrorism Charges

Allegedly wanted to engage in violence overseas

Reason Staff | 12.11.2012 7:00 PM

Politics

Alabama Secession Petition Started By Man Who Had Bad Experience With Government

Regulations meant he had to close his topless car wash

Reason Staff | 11.16.2012 9:32 AM

Politics

Alabama Enshrines Secret Ballots

Amendment 7 makes the right to a secret ballot a "fundamental" part of the state constitution

Reason Staff | 11.7.2012 12:10 AM

Politics

Alabama 6 Passes

Means state residents cannot be forced into a healthcare plan.

Reason Staff | 11.6.2012 11:54 PM

Policy

Alabama Cop Roughs Up Disabled Woman for Taking Pictures at a High School Football Game

Mike Riggs | 8.30.2012 10:57 AM

Policy

Sleepy Alabama Town Worries Too Much About Where People Should Rest Forever

Man buries wife in front yard. City government would prefer azalea bushes.

Scott Shackford | 8.20.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Rules Mandatory Life Without Parole Sentences for Juveniles Convicted of Capital Offenses a "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"; Chief Justice Focuses on Lack of "National Consensus" in Dissent

Ed Krayewski | 6.25.2012 1:12 PM

Policy

Public TV Execs Fall In Alabama

Jesse Walker | 6.19.2012 4:07 PM