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President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access, a move that comes as congressional Democrats press for a sweeping voting and elections bill to counter efforts to restrict ...

As we mark Women's History Month, here's a look at some women making a difference around the globe....

According to police, one person was shot and transported to UAB....

The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will mark the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday — the day on March 7, 1965, that civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge....

The NBA All-Star Game will be played on Sunday night. Fourteen players from Alabama high schools and colleges have played in the game over the years....

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access...

Ana Liss, Cuomo's policy and operations aide from 2013 to 2015,said the incidents were "not appropriate, really, in any setting."...

Video of the February incident has been made public at a time when the Rochester Police Department is under intense scrutiny over its interactions with Black residents....

Limestone Sheriff Mike Blakely's trial was initially set to begin a year ago but only got as far as selecting a jury before the pandemic began and all trials were placed on hold....

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A Waukee teacher brought her late aunt's story back to life through children's literature. She recruited her fourth grade student to create the art....

Annie Lane hears from a disappointed grandparent in today's Dear Annie column...

Senate passage of the sweeping COVID-19 relief bill has proven to be an early test of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's ability to deliver votes in an evenly divided Senate...

Biden's order will require federal agencies to increase access to information about voting and to help states with voter registration....

The Texas mother claims the sleepover was orchestrated by her son's classmates to purposefully bully and abuse him....

Return to normal won't just happen, says pastor; people will need help...

Chaplain Glenn Winter, 66, director of pastoral care at the Coosa Valley Medical Center in Sylacauga, adapted the best he could in March 2020 ....

Jubilee Baptist Church associate pastor Joe Stringer said, though the last year has been difficult in many ways, the pandemic also can be seen as an opportunity....

Montgomery Pastor Robert Belcher has been vaccinated and he's encouraging church members to get the vaccine....

Kristin Capstraw drove over 1,500 miles from April to August delivering Sunday school curriculum and thinking-of-you packages to families associated with a children's ministry at Fairhope United Methodist Church....

Trusting God through the COVID pandemic....

Zion Springs Baptist Church has not met in person for more than a year....

The women are co-founders of Bib & Tucker Sew-Op in Birmingham, a nonprofit that pivoted to virtual programs and training....

A clear, cold beginning for Sunday with a few freezing temperatures and some frosty conditions....

The wife wasn't aware of their affair. How should she approach this?...

Kayaks have had explosive growth in recent years as fishing boats, not only in Alabama but nationwide....

The Islamic State's brutal three-year rule of much of northern and western Iraq, and the grueling campaign against it, left a vast swathe of destruction. Reconstruction efforts have stalled amid a years-long financial crisis....

Vaccine trials underway for children 12 and older...

Alabama doctors watching Mississippi, Texas closely as states lift mask orders...

Cuomo's workplace conduct has been under intense scrutiny in recent days as several women have publicly told of feeling sexually harassed, or at least made to feel demeaned and uncomfortable by the Democrat....

TUSCUMBIA — A public hearing set for Thursday on the Colbert County Courthouse lawn will inform people how much it's expected to cost to continue the county's voluntary recycling program, and the cost to expand the system to include curbside...

A Decatur man charged with capital murder and sexual torture switched from telling police he was unaware of any injuries to his girlfriend's 8-month-old child to blaming the girlfriend for causing those injuries, according to testimony at a preliminar...

TUSCUMBIA — Colbert County Commissioners have scheduled a public hearing Wednesday to give the public an opportunity to comment on a grant application that will allow the county to purchase a trailer to help distribute COVID-19 vaccinations....

GREENHILL — Lonna Crunk has a story her children and her grandchildren won't forget for years to come....

Hospital officials say the past week represents the lowest COVID-19 numbers they've seen since early last summer....

The woman selected to lead the Decatur Housing Authority as it operates under federal scrutiny has an accounting background, 14 years in public housing administration and what a DHA board member called "passion for the residents."...

On the wall of Julia Smeds Roth's law office in Decatur hangs a photograph of her maternal grandfather and his framed 1909 University of Alabama School of Law diploma....

Decatur Councilman Hunter Pepper said Saturday he was "extremely sorry" for making a racially insensitive social media post in 2018, but a fellow council member said an apology was not enough and that Pepper should resign....

Several local school administrators support a bill that would delay by three years the holdback requirement in the Alabama Literacy Act to account for pandemic-related disruptions in learning, but a Decatur lawmaker who sponsored the Literacy Act opposes ...

At the end of a close playoff game in basketball (or any other sport for that matter), a photographer usually focuses on the reaction of the players, either joy or tears depending on the final score. One needs to be......

MOULTON — Two people with the same Moulton address have been indicted for intent to disseminate pornography involving a person under the age of 17 engaged in a sex act....

The Decatur Daily will accept financial contributions for Meals on Wheels through Wednesday and publish the final list of donors next Sunday. The goal for the annual appeal was $25,000. Contributions to date total $27,283, including the additional $3,323 ...