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  1. Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey presides over the upper chamber at the beginning of the final day of the regular legislative session at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Legislature passes General Fund budget

    In a flurry of activity Wednesday night, the Alabama Legislature passed a lean General Fund budget that counts on a special session and an election to get all its funding.

    • 9:20 AM, May. 17, 2012
  2. Capitol Police handcuff immigration law protesters outside of Senate chamber at the Alabama State House on Wednesday. Seven protesters against Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law were arrested after they tried to block entry to each chamber of the Legislature. photos by Mickey Welsh/Advertiser

    Changes keep immigration law intact, add provision

    Amid protests that extended to both chambers, the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday approved changes to the state's controversial immigration law that keep most of the law intact.

    • 2:22 AM, May. 17, 2012
  3. Beer now can be sold in bottles up to nearly 26 ounces under a new state law. advertiser file

    Alabama briefs: Bigger beer bottles bill becomes law

    Gourmet beer that aficionados say is often only distributed in larger bottles can now be sold in the state of Alabama. Gov. Robert Bentley signed a bill on Wednesday to almost double the size of bottles beer can be sold in.

    • 12:53 AM, May. 17, 2012

  4. Education Trust Fund budget approved

    The Alabama Legislature approved a $5.4 billion Education Trust Fund budget Wednesday evening that maintains class sizes without eliminating teacher positions.

    • 2:45 AM, May. 17, 2012

  5. Alabama home brew bill fails to come up on final day

    Alabama residents hoping to brew their own beer will have to wait at least another year.

    • 10:55 AM, May. 17, 2012
  6. In this photo taken Tuesday, May 8, 2012, Gov. Robert Bentley speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. Bentley is leaving Alabama legislators guessing about whether he will call them into special session a few hours after their regular session ends on Wednesday night. Wednesday is the final meeting day of the 2012 regular session, and legislative leaders expect it to be a late night with both state budgets still to be resolved. Bentley's press secretary, Jennifer Ardis, said Tuesday, May 15, 2012 that he's not made a decision. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) AP

    Governor lays out special session agenda

    Gov. Robert Bentley is asking the Alabama Legislature to do more than draw new legislative districts in its special session.

    • 9:47 AM, May. 17, 2012

  7. Alabama Legislature starting special session

    The Alabama Legislature won't have but a few hours between its regular session and a special session.

    • 6:53 AM, May. 17, 2012

  8. Alabama Legislature votes to raise court costs

    The cost of going to court in Alabama is going up if Gov. Robert Bentley signs a bill approved by the Legislature shortly before the final gavel of the 2012 session.

    • 6:52 AM, May. 17, 2012

  9. Legislature votes to merge 2 Alabama agencies

    MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Legislature has passed a bill to combine the state Department of Labor with the Department of Industrial Relations.

    • 6:49 AM, May. 17, 2012

  10. Legislature uncertain on special session

    Gov. Robert Bentley is leaving Alabama legislators guessing about whether he will call them into special session a few hours after their regular session ends on Wednesday night.

    • 1:05 AM, May. 16, 2012
  11. File photo of Sen. Dick Brewbaker (R-Montgomery). Brewbaker said the sagging pants legislation would have been difficult to enforce and left law enforcement officers open to potential First Amendment lawsuits. MICKEY WELSH/ADVERTISER FILE

    Bill on sagging pants dies in Senate

    The Alabama Legislature faces a press of issues when it returns today, but drooping pants won't be one of them. A bill sponsored by Rep.

    • 9:43 AM, May. 16, 2012

  12. Alabama legislators to decide on budget in conference

    MONTGOMERY — Both the House and Senate have agreed to let a conference committee work out differences between the two chambers' versions of a General Fund budget for non-education state services.

    • 3:16 PM, May. 16, 2012

  13. Committee rushing to get Alabama education budget

    A conference committee of six legislators is using the Legislature's last meeting day to try to work out differences between the House and Senate over Alabama's $5.5 billion education budget.

    • 12:32 PM, May. 16, 2012

  14. Larger beer bottles now legal in Alabama

    Gourmet beer that aficionados say is often only distributed in larger bottles can now be sold in the state of Alabama.

    • 11:18 AM, May. 16, 2012
  15. Opponents of Alabama's immigration bill watch the House action from the viewing balcony during the lawmakers session at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, April 19, 2012. The bill was the first issue on the House's work agenda for the day. The bill makes changes to the law that supporters and opponents have called the toughest crackdown on illegal immigration in the nation. The bill is being pushed by the Republican leadership in the House and Senate. It is mostly opposed by Democrats. Opponents say the new bill doesn't go far enough to address inequities in the immigration law, which they say encourages racial profiling by police officers. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

    Alabama Senate expected to take up immigration changes

    MONTGOMERY — As the Alabama Legislature's regular session draws to a close, the Senate is expected to take up a measure to tweak the state's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law.

    • 9:18 AM, May. 16, 2012
  16. Members of the House work during their session at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, May 10, 2012. The House has passed an education budget that is $141 million short of what was spent last year. The House adopted changes to a Senate version of the budget on Thursday, adding an additional $10 million in funding. The House-passed budget includes a nearly $36 million cut to state universities, a $77 million reduction for kindergarten through 12th grade and a cut of $13 million to the Education Department. Rep. Jay Love says that number is about 600 lower than the jobs that would have been lost under the education budget proposed by the governor. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Alabama Legislature holding final day of session

    MONTGOMERY — The legislative session that began in February wraps up Wednesday, with plenty for the legislators to do on their final meeting day in Montgomery.

    • 6:19 AM, May. 16, 2012

  17. Beer lovers wait for action on bills

    Alabama beer lovers are pleased that the state Legislature passed a measure to allow beer to be sold in larger containers, but they're still awaiting the fate of a measure to legalize home brewing.

    • 10:18 AM, May. 15, 2012
  18. Tomato farmer Keith Dickie, whose farm is near Oneonta, is among the Alabama produce farmers who say they are cutting back production this year because of labor uncertainties caused by the state’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Jay Reeves/AP

    Some farmers planting fewer crops, citing immigration crackdown

    Some Alabama farmers said they are planting less produce rather than risk having tomatoes and other crops rot in the fields a second straight year because of labor shortages linked to the state's crackdown on illegal immigration.

    • 1:06 AM, May. 14, 2012

  19. Dozens of bills await action

    When the Alabama Legislature convenes Wednesday for its final day of the 2012 regular session, lawmakers will have a full agenda including the budgets needed to fund schools and most state agencies.

    • 12:55 AM, May. 14, 2012
  20. <137>In this May 8, 2011 photo,<137> Pat O’Neil handles a seine net in Jordan Creek near Castleberry, scooping up fish. Ben Raines/AP/Press-Register

    Biologists find creek is full of life, diversity

    While most anglers would bemoan a day spent catching nothing but tiny fish, the group fishing in a tributary of Murder Creek was ebullient. Never mind that the biggest fish of the day was a spotted bass not quite 3 inches long.

    • 1:01 AM, May. 14, 2012

  21. Study: Redstone has $11.47B impact on state

    A new study shows that the Redstone Arsenal accounts for about 6 percent of Alabama's total gross domestic product in 2010.

    • 1:05 AM, May. 14, 2012

  22. Briefly: Ivey to lead state's GOP delegrates

    Alabama Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey has been elected to chair the state's delegates to the upcoming Republican National Convention. Ivey was elected to the post Saturday. She served as the chair of former Massachusetts Gov.

    • 1:03 AM, May. 14, 2012

  23. Alabama beer lovers wait for action on brew bills

    Alabama craft beer loves got a victory with the passage of a bill to allow bigger brew bottles, but they're still waiting action on a measure to make the state the 49th to allow home brewing.

    • 4:42 PM, May. 14, 2012

  24. Drilling plan will miss deadline

    The administration's five-year plan for offshore drilling won't be ready until the end of June, more than a month after Congress had expected to begin reviewing it, according to federal officials.

    • 12:15 AM, May. 13, 2012
  25. Yellow police tape lies near the tree where neighbors said Katelynn Arnold, 9, was found hanging in Ragland on Friday. JAY REEVES/AP

    14-year-old charged in killing of girl

    When 9-year-old Katelynn Arnold didn't appear right away after one of her frequent bicycle rides along her rural Alabama road, her concerned aunt set out to look for the girl.

    • 2:18 AM, May. 12, 2012
  26. George Lindsey, played the jovial “Goober” persona on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Hee Haw" for nearly 30 years AP FILE PHOTOS

    Friends remember 'Goober Pyle' actor

    Actor George Lindsey was remembered Friday as the grinning Goober who made television viewers laugh for three decades on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw." A public memorial service drew an estimated 400 people who paid last respects to Lindsey, 83,

    • 2:14 AM, May. 12, 2012

  27. Legislature to consider raising court fees

    Hanging in limbo as Alabama legislators head into the last day of the 2012 session Wednesday is a bill aimed at keeping Alabama courts running in the midst of a brutal financial crisis.

    • 2:14 AM, May. 12, 2012

  28. Lawmakers blame special interests for killing charter schools bill

    The sponsor of proposed charter school legislation, a top priority for Republican lawmakers and Gov. Robert Bentley, said on Thursday that he felt like he was attending a funeral as he talked about the demise of the proposal.

    • 2:09 AM, May. 11, 2012
  29. An Alabama state flag is waved from the top of a C-130 as it taxies in as members of the 908th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve arrive at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery in September 2010. ADVERTISER FILE

    Lawmakers want meeting with Air Force on future of C-130s in 908th Airlift Wing

    A defense bill that passed a key House committee Thursday includes language by Rep. Martha Roby requiring that the Air Force justify its plan to retire all seven C-130 cargo planes based in Montgomery.

    • 2:07 AM, May. 11, 2012

  30. Changes to state's immigration law hit snag

    The Alabama Senate delayed consideration of changes to the state's controversial immigration law on Thursday because the statute's sponsors were divided over provisions dealing with business transactions.

    • 2:16 AM, May. 11, 2012

  31. Education budget approved by House

    The House of Representatives approved an Education Trust Fund budget Thursday that could cut up to $141 million from last year's budget, leading to slightly larger classroom sizes and a loss of funding for some teaching positions.

    • 2:08 AM, May. 11, 2012

  32. Senate approves General Fund budget

    The Alabama Senate approved a $1.4 billion General Fund budget Thursday evening after adding an amendment moving hundreds of millions of dollars from the Department of Corrections to the Alabama Medicaid Agency. The budget passed 21 to 10.

    • 2:14 AM, May. 11, 2012
  33. Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, studies copies of the Senate and House redistricting plans during the meeting. Dave Martin/AP

    Proposal puts Montgomery lawmakers in same district

    Lawmakers overseeing the redrawing of legislative districts want to remove a House district from Montgomery, costing the county a seat in the Legislature and combining two Montgomery lawmakers into one district.

    • 12:40 AM, May. 10, 2012
  34. Brian Henderson holds a photo of his grandfather’s Depression-era house that he is offering for free to anyone who will pay to have it moved. Gary Cosby Jr./AP/The Decatur Daily

    Man tries to save grandfather's home

    If you want a free house, you have until Monday to get it. Moulton resident Bryan Henderson is trying to find someone to move his grandfather's Depression-era house from Carpenter Technology property on U.S. 31.

    • 12:36 AM, May. 10, 2012
  35. Boston pitcher Daniel Bard, left, and Kansas City Royals’ Jeff Francoeur attended the news conference in Kansas City, Mo., where it was announced that Major League Baseball and a charitable foundation for its players and Habitat for Humanity will build nine homes in for the tornado-ravaged cities of Joplin and Tuscaloosa. Orlin Wagner/AP

    Major League Baseball to help tornado victims

    Major League Baseball and a charitable foundation run by players announced Wednesday that they are working with Habitat for Humanity to build nine homes for the tornado-ravaged communities of Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, with more than half of the funding

    • 12:40 AM, May. 10, 2012

  36. Ex-school officer sentenced in child porn case

    A retired Birmingham police officer who also worked for two school systems is going to prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography. A federal judge sentenced 61-year-old Michael Wayne Wooten to 30 years in prison during a hearing Tuesday.

    • 12:40 AM, May. 10, 2012

  37. Senate rejects immigration law repeal attempt

    The Alabama Senate began consideration of changes to the state's immigration law Wednesday by turning back an attempt to repeal it and receiving a list of changes approved by one of the bill's original sponsors.

    • 6:48 AM, May. 10, 2012

  38. Money unlikely for wrongfully jailed mom

    A Senate budget committee chairman said the Legislature appears unlikely to go along with his plan for the state to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that resulted from a botched autop

    • 6:46 AM, May. 10, 2012

  39. Tax incentives bill fails

    A bill that would have allowed employers to withhold employees' income taxes for new and expanding projects failed a procedural hurdle in the Senate on Wednesday. The legislation, sponsored by Rep.

    • 6:45 AM, May. 10, 2012

  40. House panel OKs ballot access overhaul

    A House committee approved a bill Wednesday that would make it easier for third-party and independent candidates to get on the ballot.

    • 6:44 AM, May. 10, 2012

  41. General Fund budget approved by Senate committee

    The General Fund budget approved by a Senate committee Tuesday includes cuts to many agencies and one significant addition: A popular vote. The $1.4 billion budget, which would go into effect on Oct.

    • 2:39 AM, May. 9, 2012

  42. Ala. gov signs law banning texting while driving

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Text messaging on Alabama's public roads will be illegal starting Aug. 1 under a bill signed into law by Gov. Robert Bentley on Tuesday.

    • 2:13 AM, May. 9, 2012

  43. Bill changing pension benefits goes to Bentley

    New state employees and new teachers would pay less into their retirement and take more money home, but would wait longer to receive benefits and would receive smaller benefits, under a proposal state lawmakers passed Tuesday and that Gov.

    • 12:55 AM, May. 9, 2012
  44. The late Patsy Davis is buiried in the front yard of the house she shared with her husband, Jim Davis, in Stevenson. DeWayne Patterson/AP/The Daily Sentinel

    Man fights to have his wife's grave in front yard

    Standing on his front porch, Jim Davis greets a visitor to his home, which sits on the corner of Second Street and Broad Street. He's been here more than 35 years, he says.

    • 12:59 AM, May. 9, 2012

  45. Ala. legislator praises Obama's decision on gay marriage

    Rep. Patricia Todd, the only openly gay member of the Alabama Legislature said she was "thrilled to death," by the president's stated support of gay marriage.

    • 12:11 AM, May. 10, 2012

  46. Love's plan cuts fewer teachers

    House budget committee Chairman Jay Love has devised an education budget that would cut fewer teachers' jobs than the one passed by the Alabama Senate.

    • 1:02 AM, May. 9, 2012

  47. Senate delays vote on health insurance exchange bill

    The Senate on Tuesday evening carried over legislation that would establish a health insurance exchange after senators objected to provisions they said gave too much power to the state's largest insurance provider. The legislation, sponsored by Rep.

    • 12:55 AM, May. 9, 2012

  48. LEGISLATIVE ROUNDUP: Bill stopping pensions up corruption conviction goes to Bentley

    The Legislature gave final approval Tuesday night to legislation cutting off the state pensions for public employees who commit crimes related to their government positions.

    • 1:01 AM, May. 9, 2012

  49. Joran van der Sloot to fight US extradition

    Confessed murderer Joran van der Sloot told a judge Tuesday that he will fight extradition from Peru to the United States, where he faces extortion and wire fraud charges in connection with the disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, his lawyer said.

    • 12:53 AM, May. 9, 2012
  50. Bo Jackson stands next to his bicycle at the beginning of his "Bo Bikes Bama" event in Henager. You can own one of the bicycles Jackson rode across Alabama for tornado relief with a winning bid. An online auction site is now selling items linked to Jackson's ride. DAVE MARTIN/AP

    Bo's bikes for sale

    You might not be able to bicycle across Alabama like former Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, but you can bid starting at $8,720 for one of the two-wheelers used on his recent fundraising ride.

    • 2:01 AM, May. 8, 2012

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