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Sites associated with Black history in five Southern states will each receive grants of $50,000 from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a liberal advocacy group based in Alabama.

An Alabama district attorney said Monday that authorities have “good reason” to believe human remains found in a wooded area belong to the missing stepdaughter of a UFC heavyweight fighter. The remains were found on a county road in neighboring Macon County, Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes told The Associated Press. “I can confirm that human remains have been...

Alabama’s capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected its first African American mayor Tuesday. Probate Judge Steven Reed, 45, clasped the history-making victory to be elected the next mayor of Montgomery after defeating businessman David Woods by a decisive margin. Reed won about 67% of the...

Burger King will begin selling the plant-based Impossible Whopper nationwide next week after a successful test run in seven markets.

A year ago, a memorial opened in Alabama to remember what Denton County and some other areas worked hard to keep secret: racial terror and lynchings at the hands of community leaders.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has identified 58,000 non-U.S. citizens who voted in one or more Texas elections, dating to 1996, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office. Further, the DPS said there were about 95,000 non-citizens they identified as having a voter registration record in the state.

Flash floods ripped through Ellicott City, Maryland, Sunday as more than 8 inches of rain dumped down in the span of about five hours.

The man who police say went on a fatal shooting spree in a rural Maryland community had a federal license to sell guns and ran a gym geared toward law enforcement officers.

The Rev. Billy Graham was single-minded when he preached about God, prefacing sermon points with the phrase “The Bible says …” Yet he had a complicated role in race relations, particularly when confronting segregation in his native South. In Alabama for one of his evangelistic crusades in 1965, just months after passage of the Civil Rights Act, Graham talked about...

The death of Rep. Peter Kocot was announced Thursday in an email sent by House Speaker Robert DeLeo.

State and local police along with emergency services are responding to a private residence on Main Road in Montgomery, Massachusetts for an ongoing incident.

A Customs and Border Protection report recommends combining elements of each, depending on the terrain.

We’re in Union Square at a bachelor pad designed by Peti Lau. Peti uses her eclectic global influences to create memorable moments within the open floor plan that help to define each area.

Calling President Donald Trump’s behavior “erratic,” Boyle said voters should know a candidate’s level of health before they take office.

Otto Feuer survived three concentration camps in six years. His late son, who lived in Montgomery County, donated a very special item that Otto kept as a reminder of what he endured.

The last two of eight prototypes for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall took shape Thursday at a construction site in San Diego.

Georgia fashion designer Mychael Knight, who was a finalist on the popular TV competition show “Project Runway,” died Tuesday at age 39.

With a new school year dawning, education officials are grappling with whether to remove the names, images and statues of Confederate figures from public schools — especially since some are now filled with students of color. The violence at a white nationalist rally over a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, is giving school officials a new reason to...

Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit was going to have it demolished. He shipped it across the Atlantic Ocean and rebuilt it in the German capital of Berlin, saving the home and creating a new tourist attraction. The house...