Texas A&M’s collie mascot, Reveille X, has had her eye removed following a glaucoma diagnosis.

Texas A&M's rough collie mascot has had her right eye removed due to glaucoma.

Texans coach DeMeco Ryans has street renamed after him in his hometown: Bessemer, Alabama

Alabama has scheduled a September execution with nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a gas station attendant during a 1997 robbery.

The Supreme Court is putting off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall.

Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for the beating death of a woman in 1988.

The Supreme Court will consider making it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled.

Wake Forest and baseball coach Tom Walter apologized for what appeared to be a homophobic slur caught by television cameras during an NCAA regional game against Tennessee.

The Southeastern Conference is ratcheting up penalties on schools whose fans storm the field or rush the court, doing away with an escalating fine system and now charging $500,000 per incident.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has announced he's running for the U.S. Senate.

Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville says he’s running for governor of Alabama next year.

Alabama’s Ryan Williams and Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith are the cover athletes for EA Sports College Football 26.

After having a phenomenal college baseball regular season, the Texas Longhorns are near the top of the food chain heading into the 2025 Regionals.

A new Alabama study of hurricane-affected homes sends a clear message to insurers and homeowners nationwide: climate-resilient construction methods can protect homes, and save a lot of money.

A federal judge is considering sanctions against lawyers representing Alabama in litigation over state prisons after they used artificial intelligence to write error-filled motions.

A runaway kangaroo shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday.

A new trend of prank calling athletes during the NFL Draft is on the rise, highlighting the weaknesses in data security across the NFL and leading football fans to ask, “Is this joke too far?”

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Alabama has executed a man who said he was guilty of a woman's rape and murder and deserved to die.

Alabama guard Tyler Booker under consideration for the Texans' first-round draft selection

Nico Iamaleava says he’s heading to UCLA, a week after Tennessee announced the quarterback who helped the Volunteers reach last season’s College Football Playoff was no longer with the program.

With the Trump administration expected to reverse a controversial 2023 decision on the permanent location of U.S. Space Command, a review by the Defense Department inspector general could not determine why Colorado was chosen over Alabama.

An Alabama teen who narrowly survived a fierce shark attack last year is asking her state's lawmakers to support the creation of a new alert system.

Alabama legislators unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday that would expedite access to Medicaid for pregnant women.

Alabama Republicans cheered President Donald Trump and his agenda at a GOP party the day he imposed tariffs and sent stock markets tumbling worldwide.

The $1 million March Madness wager between a pro gambler and an artificial-intelligence site will be decided by the winner of the Duke-Houston game in the Final Four.

At least four states are considering giving college athletes tax breaks on endorsement income.

At least half of U.S. states now outlaw devices that can convert pistols into machine guns.

Duke’s stream of NBA-ready standouts used smothering defense and other options on offense to paper over Cooper Flagg’s rough shooting night and lift the Blue Devils to the program’s 18th Final Four with an 85-65 victory over Alabama.

Alabama broke the 35-year-old March Madness record for 3-pointers with 25 and Mark Sears scored 30 of his 34 points on 3s in an 113-88 victory over BYU in an NCAA Tournament East Region semifinal.

Houston coach Kelvin Sampson knows his team can always rely on defense to win games.

The Supreme Court seems closely divided over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black majority district.

Alabama thundered past Saint Mary’s 80-66 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

All-America guard Mark Sears scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half and second-seeded Alabama pulled away late to escape 15th-seeded Robert Morris 90-81 in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

The hopes of No. 1 seed Houston of cutting down the NCAA Tournament nets might rest on J’Wan Roberts’ ailing right ankle.

Alabama lawmakers approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Walter Clayton Jr. scored 22 points, and No. 4 Florida pulled away from No. 5 Alabama for a 104-82 victory in the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals.

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a lower judge’s ruling Friday.

The NCAA selection committee will have some juggling to do before the bracket comes out Sunday to keep March Madness from looking like an extension of the Southeastern Conference’s regular season.

Activists say an Alabama teenager's incarceration in an adult jail violates federal and state laws that require inmates who are minors to be separated from adults.

Alabama in 2024 became the first state to carry out a nitrogen gas execution.

Alex Condon had 27 points and10 rebounds to lead No. 5 Florida to a 99-94 win over No. 7 Alabama on Wednesday night.

Alabama offensive guard could fit in well with Texans, a team that needs to bolster its offensive line

Auburn says coach Hugh Freeze has been diagnosed with an early form of prostate cancer.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison after noting questions about his case.

The U.S. Supreme Court says people left waiting for months on their unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic in Alabama must be able to sue the state over the delay.

After Missouri basketball fans stormed the court following a victory over then-No. 1 Kansas on Dec. 8, Tigers coach Dennis Gates made sure there wouldn’t be an encore after No. 15 Missouri beat No. 4 Alabama 110-98 on Wednesday night.

Auburn and Alabama had never played as top-10 teams.

Johni Broome had 19 points and 14 rebounds and five teammates scored in double figures as No. 1 Auburn beat in-state rival and second-ranked Alabama 94-85 on Saturday in a matchup of top-ranked teams.

Auburn was the No. 1 overall seed in the preliminary rankings unveiled Saturday by the committee that will select the 68-team field for the NCAA Tournament.

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.

A federal judge has heard competing testimony over a request to block the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas.

Auburn is the unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the second consecutive week.

An Alabama man charged with homicide in two separate mass shootings pleaded not guilty in state court.

Flooded cornfields near the Tennessee River in northern Alabama are a paradise for birders who flock to see tens of thousands of migrating sandhill cranes every winter.

Offensive tackle, Cy-Fair graduate re-signed

Penn State coach James Franklin believes college football needs a commissioner and he even has a candidate in mind: former Alabama coach Nick Saban.

Officials are assessing the damage after a strong storm system moved across the southern U.S. over the weekend, spawning tornadoes and killing at least four people.

A strong storm system is threatening to whip up tornadoes in parts of the U.S. Southeast, a day after severe weather claimed at least two lives as twisters touched down in Texas and Mississippi.

Texans linebacker recorded a sack on Patrick Mahomes in his second game back from

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states.

Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco’s City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are among 600 booksellers receiving $500 holiday bonuses from James Patterson.

Now Notre Dame waits.

The Southeastern Conference’s losses were almost everyone else’s gain in the College Football Playoff rankings, with SMU nudging its way into the top 12 and Indiana staying in the mix at No. 10 despite a lopsided loss of its own.

Prairie View A&M football will part ways with Head Coach Leonard McDowell after three seasons with the program.

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gestures before being put to death in the nation’s third execution using nitrogen gas.

A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week.

When Purdue lost All-America center Zach Edey to the NBA after he swept the past two national player of the year awards, some wondered how the Boilermakers would replace him.

Trey Kaufman-Renn scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds, and freshman C.

Oregon stayed on top in the second batch of College Football Playoff rankings, while the new poll shoved Georgia completely out of the bracket after its lopsided loss to Mississippi.

A Tuskegee University student says he hid under a car when he heard the gunshots that ripped across his Alabama campus.

A shooting during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama has left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire.

A caged tiger was wheeled onto the Tiger Stadium field for the first time in nearly a decade before kickoff of Saturday night’s game between No. 14 LSU and No. 11 Alabama.

A jury has found an Alabama man not guilty of killing an 11-year New Hampshire girl more than 35 years ago.

Undefeated Oregon got top billing in the first set of rankings on the road to college football's new, 12-team playoff.

The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.

A judge has appointed a mediator to try to negotiate an end to a long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama.

Alabama's Mark Sears and North Carolina's RJ Davis headline The Associated Press preseason All-America men's basketball team.

This college football season is delivering when it comes to unpredictability and entertainment value.

An Alabama man has been arrested for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account that led the price of bitcoin to spike, the Justice Department said.

A man who admitted to killing five people in 2016 has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama.

South Carolina is starting the season at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 women's college basketball poll.

A woman is being sought by Bellaire police after allegedly shooting her ex-boyfriend outside the Bellaire Police Department.

Sedrick Alexander ran for two touchdowns, Randon Fontenette scored on a pick-six and Diego Pavia outplayed Heisman Trophy candidate Jalen Milroe as Vanderbilt stunned Alabama 40-35 for the Commodores’ first win over the nation’s top-ranked team.

Many small Alabama cities have been beset by the same polarizing debate that thrust Springfield, Ohio, into the spotlight after former president Donald Trump promoted debunked misinformation about Haitian migrants.

Thousands once filled the Muscogee tribe’s territory in present-day Alabama.

Texas is No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time in 16 years, replacing Georgia after the Bulldogs struggled to remain unbeaten against Kentucky.

Wisconsin quarterback Tyler Van Dyke was carted into the locker room after being injured on the opening drive against No. 4 Alabama.

First lady Jill Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have gone to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama to highlight programs that the administration is rolling out to improve service members’ quality of life as well as early childhood education in the military.

The first general election ballots for the presidential race are going out as Alabama officials begin mailing them to absentee voters with the Nov. 5 contest less than two months away.

A high school football star has died after suffering a brain injury during a game on Friday night, his school and family have confirmed.

Ohio State safety Caleb Downs is one of the second-ranked Buckeyes’ high-profile transfers.

Country singer Keith Urban gave just a few hours’ notice before performing a free concert in the parking lot of a convenience store and gas station in north Alabama.

Georgia is No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason college football poll for the second straight year.

Court filings are providing new details of what happened in the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas.

NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year aiming high for second season

A company has installed vending machines that sell ammunition in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas, raising concerns among gun control advocates.

Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion access is playing out in elections and the courts.