Alabama town's first Black mayor reelected after being locked out of office
The first Black mayor of an Alabama town has won election by a landslide, four years after he ran unopposed but was prevented from serving.
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The first Black mayor of an Alabama town has won election by a landslide, four years after he ran unopposed but was prevented from serving.
While Hurricane Katrina's toll didn't become clear for days, the storm ultimately led to nearly 1,400 deaths, according to the National Hurricane Center.
A federal judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama man on death row who argued that DNA evidence shows he's innocent.
Dauphin Island has been shrinking and is now facing a dire existential crisis. It will take millions of dollars from several grant sources to preserve what's left, but a federal program that provides funds is in limbo.
An Alabama death row inmate who is scheduled to be executed using nitrogen gas later this year is challenging the controversial method in an ongoing lawsuit.
Body camera footage reviewed by Reeder's family but not publicly released shows him saying, "I can't breathe" three times, his wife said.
The Trump administration is withholding over $6 billion in funding for after-school and summer programs, English language instruction and more.
Alabama beekeepers recently trapped a swarm of killer bees, prompting state officials to respond in hopes of controlling the notoriously aggressive insects.
A severe storm outbreak in the Southeast killed at least 11 people. Strong winds knocked out power and toppled trees, leaving tens of thousands of people still in the dark. Meg Oliver reports.
In 1992, Ed Bradley reported that the wrong man might have been sitting on Alabama’s death row. "Just Mercy," a movie about the case, opens in theaters this week
A group of firefighters at the same fire house in Opelika, Alabama, all welcomed new babies within just a few months. Five of them are first-time fathers. Mireya Villarreal shares their story.
In our series "A More Perfect Union," we aim to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. That principle is embodied by Rosa Parks, whose actions inspired the civil rights movement. She was arrested 64 years ago this week for not giving her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Michelle Miller reports.
After Jeff Gulley was diagnosed with colon cancer, his fellow officers started selling blue wristbands with his badge number. That money raised will help his family make the trip for an upcoming surgery. Mark Strassmann has more.
In 1963, JFK sent National Guard troops to enforce desegregation in Alabama. But he knew the deeper battle was for the nation's moral conscience. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson explains.
Steven Reed made history Tuesday when he was sworn in as the first African-American mayor to lead Montgomery, Alabama, the first capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Jericka Duncan spoke with Reed about the significance.
The reward is growing in the case of a missing 3-year-old Alabama girl. It's up to $33,000 in the search for Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney.
Death row inmates are expected to face executions this week in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, joins Margaret Brennan to discuss his new book, "Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights."
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand joins moderator Margaret Brennan to talk about the anti-abortion law passed in Alabama and the Trump administration's immigration policies.
From Elvis Presley to Pokémon, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead. Steve Hartman reports.
By day, Austin Perine is a mild-mannered four-year-old from Birmingham, Alabama. But once a week, he turns into this alter ego: a superhero set on feeding as many homeless people as possible. Steve Hartman reports.
Born into slavery around 1853 in rural Alabama, Bill Traylor worked as a sharecropper for nearly five decades after the Civil War and Emancipation. But in his 80s, without work and homeless in Montgomery, he took a new path, as an artist. Painting on scraps of paper or cardboard, Traylor's folk art told the story of African Americans in the Jim Crow era. Chip Reid reports on "Between Worlds," an exhibition of Traylor's work, and life, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Eleanor Baker, a widow, was sitting alone at Brad's Barbeque in Oxford, Alabama, when she was approached by three young men, in a meeting she told Steve Hartman had to have been arranged by the Almighty.
At a small university near Birmingham, Alabama, Steve Hartman found a big guy: 6'8", 310-pound senior offensive lineman George Grimwade, a dominating force on the Samford Bulldog football team, who used his time on the playing field to send a very special message to his stepdad.
Oprah Winfrey reports on the Alabama memorial dedicated to thousands of African-American men, women and children lynched over a 70-year period following the Civil War.