A banner year for Alabama defensive backs continued on Friday, when Kool-Aid McKinstry was picked in the second round of the NFL Draft. McKinstry was taken No. 41 overall by the New Orleans. McKinstry’s selection came after fellow Crimson Tide cornerback Terrion Arnold was chosen No. 24 overall by the...

The Houston Texans selected Georgia cornerback Kamari Lassiter at No. 42 in the NFL Draft on Friday night. The second-round pick was a standout at American Christian Academy in Tuscaloosa. The cornerback started every game for Georgia in the past two seasons. During Lassiter’s three seasons with the Bulldogs, Georgia...

Birmingham police released footage and a photo Friday showing a person of interest in the slaying of a towing company owner earlier this month. Police are trying to identify and locate the person of interest in the death of 41-year-old Birmingham resident Christopher Deandre Coleman, who was found shot to death beside his tow truck April 13 on Maple Avenue Southwest.

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Catena Media provides exclusive sports betting and online gambling content in collaboration with AL.com, including picks, analysis, tools and sportsbook and online casino offers to help bettors get in on the action. Please wager responsibly. The Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers have one win each, and with Game 3...

Catena Media provides exclusive sports betting and online gambling content in collaboration with AL.com, including picks, analysis, tools and sportsbook and online casino offers to help bettors get in on the action. Please wager responsibly. The Clippers and Mavs are deadlocked in perhaps the NBA’s most interesting Round 1 playoff...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again. This time, it’s for a new book where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too. The Guardian obtained a copy...

Lauderdale County High School won two of three doubles championships Friday morning in the final day of the AHSAA’s 2024 Class 1A/3A State Tennis Tournament at Mobile Tennis Center and sophomore Lizzie Tanner battled back from a 6-1 first set deficit to claim the No. 2 singles title as the Coach Haleigh Woodard’s Tigers captured their second girls’ state tennis championship in a row.

(This story originated as a column for the The Huntsville Times Lede and written by lifelong Huntsville resident and staff writer Lee Roop) If you hear that people are talking about Huntsville history this Spring, you might understandably think they are talking space or defense or simply growth. If you...

No. 33: Florida State wide receiver Keon Coleman by the Buffalo Bills. After trading down twice, the Bills went with a receiver – a 6-foot-4 receiver – with their opening 2024 pick after losing Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis during the offseason. Coleman had 50 receptions for 658 yards and 11 touchdowns for the Seminoles in 2023, his only season at FSU. He played at Michigan State before Florida State.

His teammates were all waiting off to the side of the green and his mom Meghan was about to cry. For 18 holes she’d known the inevitable but didn’t want to let the thought hit her yet. Not until it was over for good. But it was never in doubt.

President Joe Biden on Friday said he considered killing himself after his first wife and baby daughter died in a car crash shortly after he won election as a U.S. senator. In an interview with radio host Howard Stern, Biden admitted being distraught after his first wife, Neilia, and 18-month-old daughter, Naomi, died in a 1972 crash.

Jazmine Powers Carr has resigned as girls’ basketball coach at Bob Jones High School. Carr’s Patriots were ranked No. 1 throughout the 2023-24 season. Bob Jones lost to four-time defending state champion Hoover 58-55 in the Northwest Regional finals. Bob Jones finished the season at 29-4. The Patriots’ loss to Hoover ended a 20-game winning streak.

Pro-divestment and anti-genocide demonstrations have erupted on college campuses across the U.S., with students calling on colleges like Columbia University, The University of Southern California and Emory University in Georgia to divest from companies with ties to Israel. On April 17, Columbia students established what they are calling a Gaza...

The NFL Draft continues Friday, April 26, and there were plenty of standout defenders still on the board. The draft will be live streamed on Sling (half off first month), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and fuboTV (free trial). With a run of offensive players on Thursday, it shoved plenty of...

Independent Bookstore Day is almost here. #ShopBlack this weekend with our list of 13 Black-women owned bookstores around the country. 📍 Grand Gesture Books, Portland, OR: Grand Gesture Books is Oregon’s first-ever bookstore devoted entirely to romance. 📍 Noir Bookshop, St. Louis, MO: Noir Bookshop is St. Louis’...

An Alabama man is a member of a very exclusive club -- a club so exclusive it has fewer members than the number of astronauts who have walked on the moon. The Mississippi Gaming Commission, like its Nevada counterpart, keeps a list of those who have earned a lifetime ban from state-regulated casinos. Those on the list are typically there after being caught attempting to cheat the casino, stealing from other patrons or simply due to a nefarious reputation.

Auburn’s men’s basketball team is set to return another familiar face next season as veteran guard Chris Moore is expected to return for his final season of eligibility, CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein first reported Friday afternoon. With Moore’s return, Bruce Pearl and the Tigers are bringing back...

The second Blue Oak BBQ is 450 miles or so from their first. On Wednesday, Blue Oak founders Ronnie Evens and Philip Moseley opened their long-gestating Alabama location, in Huntsville at address 100 Mid City Drive, within the shadows of Orion Amphitheater in the MidCity District. Blue Oak, its mothership...

DNA has led to the arrest of a 75-year-old Auburn man in the sexual assault of a young girl more than 20 years ago. Bobby Lee Pitts was taken into custody Friday, Auburn police announced. He is charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, and first-degree sodomy. The investigation began Oct....