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The Jordan-Hare stadium in Auburn, Alabama, where a shooting has reportedly claimed "multiple victims"
The Jordan-Hare stadium in Auburn, Alabama, where a shooting has reportedly claimed "multiple victims"
The Jordan-Hare stadium in Auburn, Alabama, where a shooting has reportedly claimed "multiple victims"
Scripture Candy founder Brian Adkins poses at his booth at the Sweet and Snack Expo
A man walks on the beach where oil is seen in the water in Orange Beach, Alabama, in 2010
A man walks on the beach where oil is seen in the water in Orange Beach, Alabama, in 2010
A man walks on the beach where oil is seen in the water in Orange Beach, Alabama, in 2010
People fish with an oil rig in the background in 2011
A dead fish lays on the sand with oil residue on it in 2010
A buoy that washed ashore is seen stained with oil residue from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010
Will Power
Helio Castroneves of Brazil drives the #3 Team Penske Chevrolet
People watch a wave from Hurricane Dennis in 2005 near Orange Beach, Alabama
Rick Santorum is aiming for another come-from-behind victory in Illinois and Missouri
Rick Santorum is aiming for another come-from-behind victory
Rick Santorum is aiming for another come-from-behind victory
Santorum is aiming for another come-from-behind victory
Santorum has 239 delegates from nine wins while Romney's 19 wins have helped him collect 495 delegates
Santorum has 239 delegates from nine wins while Romney's 19 wins have helped him collect 495 delegates
Santorum's victories give his campaign a huge boost
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US offers $5 mn for rapping jihadist, Shebab leader

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Mar 20, 2013 23:21 EDT
The United States offered bounties of $5 million each for the arrest of two Americans, including a man known as the rapping jihadist, said to have joined Islamic militants in Somalia.
 

Supreme Court takes up voter rights again

By Staff Reporter  AFP American Edition
Mar 19, 2013 01:46 EDT
Voter rights were back on the agenda at the Supreme Court as the nation's top court took up a controversial law that requires stringent proof of citizenship for voter registration.
 

Biden marches with US civil rights leaders in Alabama

By Staff Reporter  AFP American Edition
Mar 03, 2013 20:35 EST
Vice President Joe Biden marched with black civil rights leaders in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the "Bloody Sunday" beating of voting rights marchers 48 years ago.
 

On Somali president's plate: goat liver and state rebuilding

by Boris Bachorz  AFP Global Edition
Feb 28, 2013 17:12 EST
Breakfasting on porridge, vegetables and goat liver, Somalia's president listens attentively to his advisors -- a new day is starting for the man tasked with rebuilding his country ravaged by years of war.
 

Livestrong charity vows to carry on after Armstrong

by Mira Oberman  AFP American Edition
Feb 28, 2013 15:56 EST
The anti-cancer charity founded by disgraced US cyclist Lance Armstrong will survive despite the doping scandal that forced Armstrong out of the organization, Livestrong Foundation's boss said Thursday.
 

US Supreme Court takes up voting rights law

by Chantal Valery  AFP American Edition
Feb 27, 2013 15:48 EST
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to overturn, at least in part, a voting rights law that guards against racial discrimination in US states with a segregationist past.
 

Carnival cruise line faces new fiasco

by Veronique Dupont  AFP American Edition
Feb 16, 2013 11:10 EST
A year after the tragic Costa Concordia shipwreck, cruise industry leader Carnival faces a new public relations fiasco that reveals the downsides of the sector's recent high-speed growth.
 

US judge approves $400 mln Transocean settlement

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Feb 14, 2013 14:45 EST
A US judge approved Thursday a $400 million settlement in criminal penalties against the rig operator involved in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in American history.
 

US tornadoes strike southern states, 60 injured

By Staff Reporter  AFP American Edition
Feb 11, 2013 10:53 EST
Several powerful tornadoes ripped through the southern US states of Mississippi and Alabama injuring at least 60 people and destroying hundreds of homes at the weekend, emergency officials said Monday.
 

Tornadoes across Mississippi, Alabama injure more than a dozen

By Staff Reporter  AFP American Edition
Feb 11, 2013 06:17 EST
Several powerful tornadoes ripped through the southern US states of Mississippi and Alabama late Sunday, injuring at least 12 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, authorities said.
 

An American jihadi in Somalia with few friends left

by Peter Martell  AFP Global Edition
Feb 08, 2013 06:00 EST
Once his reputation was of a feared fighter, an American-born extremist who left small town Alabama to wage war alongside Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamists and who called on other foreigners to join.
 

Armstrong tops Forbes most disliked US athletes list

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Feb 06, 2013 13:18 EST
Disgraced US cyclist Lance Armstrong, who confessed last month to doping after being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year, tops the new Forbes magazine list of most disliked US athletes.
 

Colombia probes Drummond over alleged coal dump

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Feb 05, 2013 18:17 EST
Authorities in Colombia are investigating claims that US mining company Drummond dumped coal into the Caribbean off the coast of the South American country, officials said Tuesday.
 

Child freed, kidnapper dead in Alabama bunker drama

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Feb 05, 2013 06:53 EST
A five-year-old boy held hostage in an underground Alabama bunker for almost a week was rescued Monday in a raid that left the kidnapper dead, authorities said.
 

Child freed, kidnapper dead, in Alabama bunker drama

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Feb 05, 2013 03:21 EST
A 5-year-old boy held hostage in an underground Alabama bunker for almost a week was rescued Monday in a raid that left the kidnapper dead, authorities said.
 

US kidnapper killed, child safe: FBI

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Feb 04, 2013 23:40 EST
A US gunman and murder suspect who snatched a five-year-old boy and held him for a week underground in a bunker besieged by police has been killed and the child is safe, the FBI said.
 

US kidnapper killed, child safe: FBI

By Staff Reporter  AFP Global Edition
Feb 04, 2013 20:04 EST
A US gunman and murder suspect who snatched a five-year-old boy and held him for a week underground in a bunker besieged by police has been killed and the child is safe, the FBI said.
 

US kidnapper killed, child safe: reports

By Staff Reporter  AFP American Edition
Feb 04, 2013 17:15 EST
A US gunman and murder suspect who snatched a five-year-old boy and held him for a week underground in a bunker besieged by police has been killed and the child is safe, media reported Monday.
 

Bus driver mourned amid US child-hostage drama

By Staff Reporter  AFP American Edition
Feb 04, 2013 00:38 EST
Friends and family mourned the death of an Alabama school bus driver shot by a gunman who snatched a five-year-old boy and has held him in an underground bunker for six days.
 

US hostage drama involving child in fourth day

By Staff Reporter  AFP American Edition
Feb 01, 2013 17:44 EST
A hostage drama involving a five-year-old boy dragged into its fourth day Friday, with the abductor holding the child in an underground bunker in the southern US state of Alabama.
 
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Facts from the Wikipedia page:

State of Alabama
Flag of AlabamaState seal of Alabama
FlagSeal
Nickname(s): Yellowhammer State; Heart of Dixie; Cotton State
Motto(s): Audemus jura nostra defendere (Latin)
before statehood, known as
the Alabama Territory
Map of the United States with Alabama highlighted
Official language(s)English
Spoken language(s)English (96.17%)
Spanish (2.12%)
DemonymAlabamian or Alabaman
CapitalMontgomery
Largest cityBirmingham
229,800 (2007 estimate)[1]
Largest metro areaGreater Birmingham Area
Area Ranked 30th in the US
 - Total52,419 sq mi
(135,765 km2)
 - Width190 miles (306 km)
 - Length330 miles (531 km)
 - % water3.20
 - Latitude30° 11′ N to 35° N
 - Longitude84° 53′ W to 88° 28′ W
Population Ranked 23rd in the US
 - Total4,661,900 (2008 est.)[2]
4,447,100 (2000)
 - Density84.83/sq mi  (33.84/km2)
Ranked 27th in the US
Elevation 
 - Highest pointMount Cheaha[3]
2,413 ft  (734 m)
 - Mean499 ft  (152 m)
 - Lowest pointGulf of Mexico[3]
0 ft  (0 m)
Admission to Union December 14, 1819 (22nd)
GovernorRobert R. Riley (R)
Lieutenant GovernorJim Folsom, Jr. (D)
U.S. SenatorsRichard Shelby (R)
Jeff Sessions (R)
U.S. House delegation5 Republicans, 2 Democrats (list)
Time zoneCentral: UTC-6/DST-5
AbbreviationsAL Ala. US-AL
Websitehttp://www.alabama.gov