Kim Chandler

February 01, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The state finance department and attorney general's office argue over whether man freed in 2015 after spending 28 years on death row was proven innocent.

By Kim Chandler, Associated Press

3 minute read

September 30, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's defiance of federal court rulings on gay marriage violated judicial ethics, a disciplinary court ruled on Friday before suspending him for the rest of his term. The punishment effectively removes Moore from office without the nine-member Alabama Court of the Judiciary officially ousting him. Given his age, he will not be able to run for chief justice again under state law.

By Kim Chandler

8 minute read

September 28, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore should be removed from office again, this time for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, lawyers for a disciplinary commission argued on Wednesday.

By Kim Chandler

5 minute read

June 17, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A bench ally of suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging what he called the state's unconstitutional restrictions on judges' speech.

By Kim Chandler

5 minute read

May 12, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A federal appeals court delayed the execution of an Alabama inmate on Thursday, saying there should be more time to review his claim that he is no longer competent because of strokes and dementia.

By Kim Chandler

6 minute read

November 30, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Two blocks from the spot where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, 17-year-old Tanesha Wilson listens to earbuds as she waits for the No. 8.

By Kim Chandler

6 minute read

November 30, 2015 | Daily Report Online

Two blocks from the spot where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, 17-year-old Tanesha Wilson listens to earbuds as she waits for the No. 8.

By Kim Chandler

6 minute read

January 26, 2015 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge has put a temporary hold on her decision that overturned Alabama's gay marriage ban, but indicated she will soon answer a key question: Must state probate judges issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples when the stay is lifted?

By Kim Chandler and Jeff Martin

4 minute read

January 26, 2015 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge has put a temporary hold on her decision that overturned Alabama's gay marriage ban, but indicated she will soon answer a key question: Must state probate judges issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples when the stay is lifted?

By Kim Chandler and Jeff Martin

4 minute read