Editor’s Note: "The Political Skinny" is an inside look at Alabama politics prepared by the staff of the Press-Register. For more information, e-mail skinny@press-register.com or call 251-219-5623.... More

Fairhope had appealed a lower court decision to deny the city's attempt to recover $1.24 million in legal fees from the Dyas family, documents show. The Dyases appealed a lower court order that struck down various lawsuit allegations against Fairhope and Mayor Tim Kant.... More

MOBILE, Alabama -- Few figures have undergone as great a transformation in their public image as Virgil Pittman.... More

It's hard to imagine things going worse for the prosecution than they did last year. But this trial? It already seems like a case study on all that can go wrong.... More

Cheatham, the Alabama Education Association's Huntsville representative, is the sole Democrat on the ballot for Morgan County Circuit Clerk. Cheatham, a native and resident of Decatur, will in November face the winner of the Republican primary.... More

In a court filing today, prosecutors say the information was made available to defense teams six months before last summer's trial.... More

The matter appears to be the first time that Tony Petelos and some commissioners have differed publicly over a policy matter.... More

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's liaison to the nation's mayors said today that the White House will support next year's multi-city tourism effort to commemorate the anniversary of major civil rights events of 1963.Birmingham Mayor William Bell at the National...... More

Logjam set up to block vote on Obama's nominee for 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.... More

Smith, who was first elected to the position in 2001, has worked in the clerk's office for nearly 38 years. She is credited with modernizing and digitizing the extensive record-keeping system of the circuit clerk's office.... More