A federal judge in Alabama reprimanded three lawyers for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco sanctioned three lawyers with Butler Snow. The firm represents Alabama in lawsuits against its prison system. Manasco remov…
Divorce is painful, particularly when it separates you from your children.
What character in the Bible do you most relate to when your faith is tested?
A judge has ruled that Alabama's Public Service Commission can continue holding private meetings to decide fuel price hikes. The decision, issued Monday, rejected a lawsuit from environmental advocates who argued the lack of public hearings violates state rules and regional norms. The lawsui…
The Alabama Attorney General opposes immunity for a former police officer charged with murder. The officer, Mac Marquette, shot and killed Stephen Perkins, an armed Black man, in his front yard in September 2023. On Tuesday, the attorney general argued that Marquette failed to prove a legal …
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has appointed a new head of the state parole board. Ivey said Monday she has appointed Hal Nash as the new chair of the three-person Board of Pardons and Paroles. Nash is the chief corrections deputy of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. He will replace Leigh Gwathney…
What do our children or grandchildren see when they watch us? Do they see people who are discerning about the company we keep?
Family members of a Black teenager shot and killed by police in an Alabama suburb of Birmingham want to see the body camera footage of the shooting. Eighteen-year-old Jabari Peoples was shot by an officer in the affluent suburb of Homewood on July 23. The Homewood Police Department said Peoples grabbed a gun after struggling with the officer. The family is disputing that version of events. Leroy Maxwell, Jr. is an attorney representing the family. He called on the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to turn over the body camera footage. The state agency is reviewing the shooting.
A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990. On Monday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Michael Sockwell’s 14th Amendment rights were breached, arguing prosecutors excluded Black jurors based on race. Sockwell was convicted of killing a sheriff in 1988 and is now eligible for a retrial. The court cited a pattern of racial discrimination in jury selection by the state. A dissenting judge argued there was no clear evidence of bias.
After discovering that her Black great-grandfather was lynched by her white great-grandfather in Eufaula, Eliza Franklin plans to convert one of the town's homes to an African American history museum.
You’ve noticed something different about yourself. Previously, when you faced obstacles, you’d give up. Now, you persevere and see the project or trial through …
Your mind is racing. It won’t be long before your boss realizes that you’re not as experienced as your resume suggested. Or perhaps you’re wondering if you’ll ever manage to pay down the mountain of debt that threatens to bankrupt you. Maybe your marriage is so strained that your wife is tal…
Are you spending time with people who offer unreliable advice, suggest questionable activities or mock ideas that are important to you?
In the mid-1990s, when my son, Joshua, announced that he had enlisted in the Army, I felt nervous yet proud of his decision to serve his country.
Detective Johnathan Millender has been named the Eufaula Police Department’s 2024 CrimeStoppers Officer of the Year.
When someone insults us, steals from us or lies to us, what would Jesus say … to us? Furthermore, how would Jesus want us to model to our children loving those who treat us unfairly?
My children recently said goodbye to their stepmother, Debora Demoruelle Hamilton. Debora resided in Arnaudville, La., until her recent passing.
When was the last time tears streamed down your face, your heart ached and your thoughts were too jumbled to think clearly? When did you know beyond a doubt that this time, for sure, your situation was hopeless?
I like to think I’m a kind person, but when someone disrespects me or disagrees with me on something I care about, I find it hard.
Can you recall how heavy your worst sin felt before you confessed it to God and received forgiveness? Imagine if the crushing weight of all your sins (every sin you’ve ever committed) suddenly dropped on you.
Are you overwhelmingly discouraged – and so, so, so embarrassed? As you make big, stupid choices and constant small ones, do you feel as if the guilt of your sins will eventually crush you? You’ve failed and failed – and failed – so often that you don’t know where to go from here.
Eufaula High School’s musical production of “Mamma Mia!” opens on Friday, April 11, at 7 p.m. at the Eufaula City Auditorium. The shows continue on Saturday, April 12, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Carol waved to her best Friend from across the grassy field. She grabbed her 3-year-old daughter, Shelby, and swung her onto her right hip. Shelby giggled as her mother’s long stride bounced her as they hurried toward Jesus.