Harper Lee’s unforgettable words from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' still inspire compassion, courage and understanding.

Thanks for spending part of Ash Wednesday with us. Today’s report includes a couple of images from the Comic Cowboys parade and our first “Barkley-ism” section (but certainly not our first Charles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trove of letters over several years from Harper Lee to a writer friend from Alabama reveal many of her thoughts on race ...

Alabama is a beautiful state with scenic beaches, rolling mountains, and pretty towns. But its history is also inseparable from the pain of slavery and the injustice of segregation. It was this ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Nearly a year after the death of Harper Lee, a group in south Alabama hopes to develop new attractions and bring more tourists to the novelist s hometown of Monroeville, which helped ...

ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee politely knocked on truck driver Robert Louis Burns’ door in rural Alabama one day more than three decades ago and asked him about the ...

MONROEVILLE, Ala. — As an owner of the only secular bookstore in Harper Lee's hometown, Spencer Madrie figured he'd sell hundreds of books — maybe more — after the stunning announcement that the ...