MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey ordered state agencies last week to follow new procedures for responding to public record requests, changes intended to provide structure in a state with one of the weakest open records laws in the country.

The victim of an alleged sexual assault by Perry Hooper Jr. is speaking out after the former lawmaker this week called a video of his actions “laughable” and sued the city of Montgomery over his August arrest.

Access has improved across the U.S. to a rescue drug that reverses opioid overdoses, but advocates say naloxone — commonly known by its brand name Narcan — still isn't getting to everyone who needs it. A small group of volunteers run an organization that appears to be the largest distributor of naloxone in Albany, Georgia. But many communities lack similar structures. Public health experts are telling U.S. state and local government officials in charge of using funds from opioid settlements to consider getting more naloxone into the hands of people who use drugs and those who are around them. In some places, it goes mostly to first responders.

TUSKEGEE (AP) — An Alabama judge has paved the way for officials to remove a Confederate monument placed a century ago at the center of a historic, majority-Black city as part of a "park for white people."

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge has paved the way for officials to remove a Confederate monument placed a century ago at the center of a historic, majority-Black city as part of a "park for white people."

MONTGOMERY — Perry Hooper Jr., whose sex abuse charge was dropped late last year, is now suing the City of Montgomery and Police Chief Darryl Albert, alleging his arrest was a “planned and organized set up” by his political enemies.