Alabama lawmakers are preparing to reintroduce a bill that would make the rape or sodomy of a child a capital offense, ...

Attorney General Steve Marshall believes adding the death penalty to severe acts against children could help prevent the ...

A Bibb County grand jury indicted five Alabama men and two women in the case. They face accusations of raping, sodomizing and ...

The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy ...

Kela Stanford was booked in Jefferson County Friday morning. She posted bond and has been released, pending a court date.

"The interior temperature of the car where KJ was trapped likely exceeded 150 degrees," an attorney for the family said.

A pair of Alabama lawmakers held a press conference in Montgomery Thursday morning to talk about their push to make child ...

Ke’Torrius Starkes Jr., of Bessemer, was found in a hot car outside a home on Pine Tree Drive, according to the coroner. The child had been left alone in the car for more than five hours.

Kela Stanford, a former transport driver for The Covenant Services, is charged with leaving a child unattended in a motor ...

Lawmakers announced a proposed bill Thursday that would allow the death penalty to be given to criminals who commit rape or sodomy of children under the age of ...