By JULIE PACE and JONATHAN LEMIRE President-elect Donald Trump signaled a sharp rightward shift in U.S. national security policy Friday, naming Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Kansas Rep.…
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Sheriff: 5 slain in Alabama massacre included pregnant woman
By JEFF MARTIN The five people slain in a massacre at a south Alabama home included a woman who was five months pregnant, Mobile County authorities said. The suspect, Derrick…
Former KKK member convicted in deadly bombing up for parole
By JAY REEVES Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. was a young Ku Klux Klansman with a reputation for hating blacks in 1963, when a bomb ripped a hole in the side…
At 150, KKK sees opportunities in US political trends
By JAY REEVES Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights…
World’s oldest person dies in New York at age 116
Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, has died in New York at age 116. Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, said Jones died…
Give drug felons food stamps, many states now say
By GRANT SCHULTE and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Nebraska is desperate to stop the runaway growth of its prison population, but doing so depends a lot on people like Ronald Tillman. Tillman,…
Alabama lawmaker moves forward with plan to impeach governor
By KIM CHANDLER A Republican Alabama lawmaker said Tuesday that he is filing an impeachment resolution against GOP Gov. Robert Bentley in the wake of a scandal involving one of…
Poor offenders pay high price when probation turns on profit
By ADAM GELLER and SHARON COHEN Tennessee (AP) — Outside the $200-a-week motel room that Steven Gibbs and his family call home, the afternoon sun sparkled. Inside, though, he had…