March 7 marks the 58th anniversary of the attack on civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama. Residents there are still recovering from tornadoes that ripped through the city in January.

Alabama is beginning to recover after Thursday's tornadoes. A National Weather Service official says a twister carved a 50- mile path across the state.

Deadly storms hit Alabama before the start of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. A tornado caused much damage in city of Selma, which played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement.

A large tornado tore through the city on Thursday afternoon and caused extensive damage.

Thousands of inmates continue to strike in Alabama. They've stopped working unpaid jobs in some state facilities to protest sentencing policies and a parole process that contribute to poor conditions.

The POWER House, which opened in 2015 next door to a now-closed clinic that performed abortions, continues to see clients, offering them sexual information and contraception.

After the only abortion clinic in Montgomery, Ala., shut down, a next-door organization has been threading a legal needle to give reproductive health care to those coming from hundreds of miles away.

Despite a threat from Alabama's attorney general, Jefferson Davis Avenue in Montgomery will be no more. The street once named for the Confederate figure will now honor civil rights attorney Fred Gray.

In Selma, Ala., the reenactment of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge was scaled down because of COVID-19. It was also the first without civil rights icon John Lewis who died last year.

Alabama civil rights icon Bruce Boynton, who helped inspire the Freedom Riders movement when he ordered at a whites only section of a restaurant, has died. He was 83.

Voters in Montgomery, Ala., have elected the city's first-ever black mayor. Steven Reed will now lead Alabama's capital city that was once known as the cradle of the Confederacy.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologized Thursday for wearing blackface in a college skit more than 50 years ago.

Severe weather moves across the southern U.S. A possible tornado touched down in Troy, Ala., but officials there believe the state's experience with past storms may have helped to keep citizens safe.

A newspaper publisher in rural Alabama has written an editorial calling for the return of the Ku Klux Klan. Reaction in the town of Linden has been one of anger and frustration.

While powerful winter storms hit parts of the Midwest on Saturday, heavy thunderstorms swept through the South. A tornado may have destroyed prominent buildings in a town north of Montgomery, Ala.

The Federal Commission on School Safety held its fourth and final listening session in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday. Representatives heard the community's thoughts on how to improve school safety.

In the U.S. the aluminum and steel tariffs that the Trump administration proposed are starting to be felt in Alabama, the third largest state for auto exports. State officials are raising concerns about the tariffs, and that could put Alabama at odds with the president.

African-American voters turned out in big numbers to help propel Democrat Doug Jones' upset victory in the Alabama U.S. Senate race. It was a surprising show of political muscle by a community that's been locked out of power in a Republican-dominated state.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has had a difficult balancing act around the allegations of sexual assault against GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore. She says she believes Moore's accusers but still plans to vote for him.

Schools in Alabama were already required to teach cursive writing, but a new law now requires schools to provide cursive instruction by the end of the third grade, and report proficiency levels.