The president of Jacksonville State University, whose use of a ghostwriter for newspaper columns caused a stir two years ago, now has been accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Alabama.

Regions Financial Corp. on Tuesday reported a surprising first-quarter profit, driven by strong mortgage banking revenue and deposit growth. But loan losses at the regional bank continued to increase as consumers struggled to pay off their debts.

A line of storms swept across the Southeast with 70 mph winds and possible tornadoes, killing two people in their mobile homes in north Alabama, authorities said Monday.

A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday.

Some customers at Starbucks shops around the Birmingham area have been getting an extra ingredient with their coffee: Kindness. Customers at shops in eastern Birmingham, Hoover and Vestavia Hills are paying it forward by anonymously picking up the tabs of

A slice of cake from one of Britain’s most controversial royal weddings was placed on sale at an antiques fair in Birmingham on Thursday.

A jury rejected claims that a PCBs factory was to blame for illnesses around the east Alabama city Anniston, ruling against five people who sued a company that ran the plant for decades.

A former male stripper accused of fatally stabbing and slashing his estranged girlfriend and three other people as they slept spent time in state prison on a child abuse conviction, authorities said Monday.

Police have charged a 24-year-old man with four counts of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of four people in a home near Birmingham.

Police say they have a person in custody in the slayings of four people found in a home outside Birmingham, Ala.