Byrne finds himself in the middle of another high-profile fight as he seeks to win a U.S. Senate seat by first outmatching two better-known Republican rivals in former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville.
A bill that would require counties to allow voters to decide if they want to eliminate police jurisdictions passed out of a Senate committee on Tuesday, but disagreements between representatives of counties and municipalities still exist.
Democrats held their final debate before the South Carolina presidential primary and the critical Super Tuesday contests that follow three days later.
In the Weeds w/ Tommy Tuberville; Senate slows down animal cruelty bill; Audit reveals misuse of funds; Trump gets Title X court win; Coronavirus threatens economy
An audit of an Alabama school district shows administrators misused over $700,000 in funds on items such as alcohol, payments to a strip club, a fictitious vendor and scholarships for an administrator's children.
At least one member of the Alabama Senate committee that approved a bill opponents claim takes state animal abuse laws backwards said he wants to see the legislation die.
Boosted by fame from years as a coach in a state where college football is king, Tuberville has become a front-runner in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
In a victory for the Trump administration, a U.S. appeals court on Monday upheld rules that bar taxpayer-funded family-planning clinics from referring women for abortions.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the urgent $2.5 billion plan for coronavirus he sent to lawmakers will prepare the nation in case of an outbreak in the U.S. and help other nations unprepared to handle the threat.
Vernon Madison spent more than three decades on Alabama's death row for the killing of a police officer in 1985.