Phillip Lucas
The Associated Press
Birmingham, AL, United States
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High court voids Alabama ruling against lesbian adoption
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Alabama's top court went too far when it tried to upend a lesbian mother's adoption of her partner's children. → Read More
High court voids Alabama ruling against lesbian adoption
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Alabama's top court went too far when it tried to upend a lesbian mother's adoption of her partner's children.The justices threw out a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court in a dispute between two women whose long-term re → Read More
Wal-Mart's Shutdown Creates New Food Deserts
Wal-Mart's decision to shutter 154 stores across the country means that, starting Thursday, residents without cars in a neighborhood near a historically black college outside Birmingham, Alabama, will have to cross dangerous roadways on foot to get fresh produce and meat. Come Friday, folks in... → Read More
Alabama chief justice denies defying US Supreme Court
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore stood firm Thursday in his position that the state's probate judges should not issue marriage licenses to gay couples, a stance he insisted is not in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer that effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide. → Read More
Tornado touches Birmingham, Ala., as storms continue to lash U.S. South
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Residents in northern Alabama were warned to be alert for moderate to severe flooding Saturday, a day after a tornado briefly touched down in the state’s most populous city but caused only a hint of damage. The flooding is the result of heavy downpours that have been thrashing the southeastern U.S. → Read More
Christmas storm woes continue as tornado hits Alabama
A tornado touched down in north-central Alabama, including part of Birmingham, in the latest wave of severe weather that’s hammered the South during Christmas week. → Read More
Christmas storm woes continue as tornado hits Alabama
A tornado touched down in north-central Alabama, including part of Birmingham, in the latest wave of severe weather that's hammered the South during Christmas week. → Read More
Southeast storm death toll rises to 17
The death toll in the Southeast climbed to 17 on Saturday after less than a week of tumultuous weather - unusual warmth, tornadoes and torrential downpours - sparked flooding and caused damage... → Read More
Southeast storm death toll rises to 18
The death toll in the Southeast climbed to 18 on Saturday after less than a week of tumultuous weather - unusual warmth, tornadoes and torrential downpours - wreaked havoc during the Christmas... → Read More
Alabama tornado adds to Christmas storm woes
A Christmastime wave of severe weather continued Friday as a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Alabama, including through the southwest portion of Birmingham, the state’s largest city. → Read More
Survivors of Southern storms thankful to see Christmas
Barbara Perkins and her husband were hunkered down inside a closet when violent winds peeled the roof off their Mississippi home. → Read More
Survivors of Southern storms thankful to see Christmas
Barbara Perkins and her husband were hunkered down inside a closet when violent winds peeled the roof off their Mississippi home. The storm sucked the central air conditioning unit beside the couple straight up from the floor and into the howling sky. → Read More
Survivors of Southern storms thankful to see Christmas
Barbara Perkins and her husband were hunkered down inside a closet when violent winds peeled the roof off their Mississippi home. The storm sucked the central air conditioning unit beside the couple straight up from the floor and into the howling sky. → Read More
Survivors of Southern storms thankful to see Christmas
Barbara Perkins and her husband were hunkered down inside a closet when violent winds peeled the roof off their Mississippi home. The storm sucked the central air conditioning unit beside the... → Read More
Alabama tornado adds to Christmas storm woes
A Christmastime wave of severe weather continued Friday as a tornado touched down in Jefferson County, Alabama, including through the southwest portion of Birmingham, the state's largest... → Read More
Christmastime tornadoes ravage South; at least 14 killed
Instead of doing some last-minute shopping or wrapping gifts, families across the South spent Christmas Eve taking stock of their losses after an unusual outbreak of December tornadoes and other violent weather killed at least 14 people and damaged or destroyed dozens of homes. → Read More
Christmastime tornadoes ravage South; at least 11 killed
Instead of doing some last-minute shopping or wrapping gifts, families across the South spent Christmas Eve taking stock of their losses after an unusual outbreak of December tornadoes and other violent weather killed at least 11 people and damaged or destroyed dozens of homes. → Read More
Southern tornadoes: Wave of storms kills 7 in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) -- Mulester Johnson was with relatives when a fierce storm roared through this small town and tore the back of his house from its foundation, tossed trees onto pickup trucks and leveled brick walls. → Read More
Deadly winter storm system scatters damage across the South; at least 6 killed
The deadly spring-like storms came Wednesday amid unseasonably warm weather that made the perfect recipe for destructive weather. → Read More
Deadly storm system scatters damage across the South
In northern Mississippi, residents were beginning to take stock after fierce storms that killed at least six across the country whipped through the area. → Read More