Democrats shut down Alabama Senate, accuse GOP of ‘wiping out’ state …

Democratic senators sustained a filibuster Thursday that blocked action on about a dozen bills because of opposition to Republican-backed legislation to replace the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, and Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, used Senate rules to talk for hours in protest of the archives…