“Alabama” on The Daily Caller

LIMA, Peru (AP) — After Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino, his lawyer argued that the killing was tragically triggered by fallout from the very event that originally brought his client notoriety. (more)

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Actor Charlie Sheen quietly donated $25,000 to help tornado relief in Alabama, making good on a pledge to help survivors of the deadly twisters even though some had doubted his promises. (more)

Remember Dale Peterson of Alabama, the gun-toting candidate for agriculture commissioner whose unorthodox campaign videos were among the most watched of 2010? (more)

Alabama’s unemployment rate fell at a record pace in November amid stepped-up efforts by President Barack Obama’s deputies to frustrate enforcement of the state’s popular new immigration reform. (more)

The Justice Department has sent a letter to dozens of local law enforcement agencies in Alabama that receive federal money, warning them that they risk losing that funding if they’re not careful in how they enforce Alabama’s tough new immigration law. (more)

(Reuters) – As Mercedes-Benz executive Detlev Hager negotiated the streets of Tuscaloosa last week, he drove right into the controversy over Alabama’s tough new immigration law. (more)

Unemployment rates have fallen in Alabama amid new legal pressure on companies to comply with a popular immigration reform law. (more)

WASHINGTON — The fight against Alabama’s controversial immigration law, HB56, will get a push from a delegation of U.S. lawmakers Monday, when 10 House members will visit Birmingham. (more)

In federal court Tuesday, former Alabama Democratic state Rep. Terry Spicer pled guilty to accepting bribes from a lobbyist and casino developer in return for the use of his influence and position. (more)

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions did not take kindly to Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin’s criticism of Alabama’s rigid enforcement of immigration laws during a speech promoting the DREAM Act, attacking Durbin from the Senate floor and contributing to a letter demanding that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano closes safe havens for illegal immigrants. (more)

Artur Davis’s new tune on voter ID laws isn’t his only recent right turn. According to third-quarter Federal Election Commission filings, Davis — a former Democratic congressman from Alabama, donated $500 in September to the campaign of Heather Wilson, New Mexico’s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Davis also contributed to the Republican front-runner in the Mississippi governor’s race. (more)

Fraudulent voting by imaginary voters, not racist obstacles to the ballot box, is the most disturbing and common form of voter suppression facing people of all races, says former Alabama congressman Artur Davis, an African-American Democrat. (more)

After a federal judge in Alabama refused to halt key provisions of the state’s controversial immigration law last week, the Department of Justice filed an emergency appeal Friday with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to stop the law from being enforced. (more)

ATLANTA (AP) — The federal government asked an appeals court Friday to stop Alabama officials from enforcing a strict immigration law that has already driven Hispanic students from public schools and migrant workers from towns, warning that it opens the door to discrimination against even legal residents. (more)

Employers in Alabama’s Marshall County are hiring new workers following the stepped-up federal and state enforcement of immigration laws. (more)

Dale Peterson, the gun-toting Alabamian who lost his 2010 state agriculture commissioner race but became a YouTube celeb in the process, is going back on the campaign trail in the Yellowhammer State, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

As it turns out, Alabama and Arizona may play a more important role in shaping national immigration policy than many Americans would have ever imagined. (more)

Convicted nonviolent criminals in a south Alabama town will soon have an alternative to paying a fine and going to jail: Go to church for a year. (more)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the winner of today’s Alabama — that’s Alabama – straw poll, according to party officials there. (more)

WASHINGTON — Getting ready to run for president and feeling boxed in by strict federal campaign finance laws that cap donations to your political action committee? Welcome to Alabama, home of the end-run on such pesky limits. (more)