Barcelona police searching for missing Alabama college student find body at beach

Barcelona police searching for a missing University of Alabama student who vanished from a nightclub early Tuesday morning said they found a body at Somorrostro Beach. Catalan Police told NBC News that the body was found Thursday around 6 p.m. local time. An identity has not been confirmed. James Paul Gracey, a junior accounting major, … Read more

University of Alabama student missing in Barcelona after night out at club

A University of Alabama student’s family is pleading for information after he went missing on Tuesday, after a night out at a Barcelona beachfront club during a visit to friends studying abroad. James Paul Gracey, 20, was last seen at Shoko, a nightclub in Villa Olimpica on the beach in Spain, his parents, Taras and … Read more

In Black pastor’s arrest, Alabama Supreme Court rules police can demand to see identification

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Ruling in the case of a Black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor’s flowers, the Alabama Supreme Court said police can demand to see identification during a stop if they are dissatisfied with a person’s verbal answers. Justices issued the 6-3 decision last week after a federal judge presiding over … Read more

Alabama judge dismisses lawsuit over a 2023 Taser death

MOBILE, Ala. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of an Alabama man who died after police shocked him with a Taser multiple times in 2023. U.S. District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose on Tuesday dismissed a wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit filed against the city of Mobile and … Read more

Alabama governor commutes death sentence of inmate whose accomplice fired fatal shot

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate who was set to be executed this week even though he was not in the building when the victim was killed. Ivey reduced Charles “Sonny” Burton’s sentence to life in prison without possibility of parole. Burton was sentenced … Read more

Sonny Burton didn’t kill anybody, but Alabama is set to execute him

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Alabama man facing execution for deadly robbery asks for clemency as he didn’t kill victim

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Charles “Sonny” Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that landed him on death row, and he only learned later that another man in the group of robbers had shot and killed a store customer. “I didn’t know anything about nobody getting hurt until we … Read more

Brawl at Coastal Carolina, South Alabama women’s basketball game injures referee; 8 players ejected

A brawl between South Alabama and Coastal Carolina in the women’s Sun Belt Tournament in Pensacola, Florida on Wednesday left eight players ejected and knocked a referee to the floor where she required medical attention. One player, Coastal Carolina’s Tracey Hueston, was suspended for the rest of the 2026 postseason. There were less than six … Read more

Supreme Court decision paves way for new trial for Alabama man on death row since 1990

The U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for one of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates to receive a new trial. On Monday, the court declined to review the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling over the summer, which found that prosecutors in the original case violated the inmate’s rights by intentionally rejecting Black jurors.  The … Read more