Area elected officials will learn how to recruit business and economic opportunities from the Alabama League of Municipalities.

The latest in the disappearance of 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito.

The meeting came days after a different advisory group — this one serving the Food and Drug Administration — overwhelmingly rejected a sweeping White House plan to dispense third shots to nearly everyone. Instead, that panel endorsed booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine only for senior citizens and those at high risk from the virus.

Doctors recommend everyone older than 6 months should get the shot by Halloween, regardless of what flu season is like.

Three recent polls found that fewer than a third of Americans favor overturning Roe v. Wade, the high court decision that protects abortion rights.

Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large scale” in recent days, according to one U.S. official who put the figure in the thousands.

Turnout in the August 3, 2021 election was only 14%.

Alabama State Parks saw a huge increase in visitors in 2020.

Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie had set out in July in a converted van to visit national parks in the West. They got into a fight along the way, and Laundrie was alone when he returned in the van to his parents’ home Sept. 1, police said.

Legislature will consider multi-phase plan in special session