An Alabama couple has been charged with raping a 17-year-old relative multiple times in an unsuccessful attempt to impregnate her so they could keep the baby, prosecutors said Monday.
Paul Hard of Montgomery, Alabama said in his lawsuit against the current ban on the recognition of same-sex unions that it was unconstitutional and degraded gays and lesbians in the state to second-class citizens due to the lack of right, said a report by The Associated Press published on Republican American.
The state of Alabama executed convicted murderer Andrew Reid Lackey who prisoner rights groups said was mentally ill, Reuters reported. The 29-year-old Lackey was put to death by lethal injection at Holman Prison in the Atmore, marking the state's first execution since 2011.
After seven days in a bunker, Alabama authorities have killed a gunman and abductor who was holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural Alabama on Monday.
A 65-year-old captor, who allegedly fatally shot a school bus driver on Tuesday, has kept a 5 year old boy captive in an underground bunker, on his property, as the dangerous hostage standoff entered its 4th day.
Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were camped out at a rural property where a suspect was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker Wednesday after fatally shooting a school bus driver. He had reportedly fled with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said.
