Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from the bench Friday for defying the U.S. Supreme Court on gay marriage, more than a decade after he got in trouble for refusing federal orders to move a Ten Commandments monument.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A probate judge is asking the Alabama Supreme Court to concede that gay couples can marry in Alabama if the U.S. Supreme Court rules same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional later this year.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Mobile probate judge now faces conflicting direct orders from a federal judge and the Alabama Supreme Court regarding gay marriage.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, saying a previous federal ruling that gay-marriage bans violate the U.S. Constitution does not preclude them from following state law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) _ Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards is asking a federal appeals court to not do anything with the state's appeal of a gay marriage ruling until the nation's high court weighs in.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state denies its laws on marriage curb the constitutional rights of five same-sex couples suing over Alaska's gay marriage ban.

The state of Alaska is seeking to have an 11-judge panel of the federal appeals court for the West review a lower court's ruling that struck down gay marriage.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gay couples began applying for marriage licenses in Anchorage on Monday, 15 years after Alaska helped touch off a national debate with a ban on same-sex unions.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Over the years, the Alaska Supreme Court has chipped away at laws deemed discriminatory against gay couples. In 2005, for example, the high court found it unconstitutional to deny certain benefits to the same-sex partners of state employees.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Hollis French said Thursday the legalization of same-sex marriage across the country seems inevitable.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The state has spent more than $103,000 to defend a lawsuit that overturned Alaska's ban on same-sex marriage, and it would spend more than triple that amount if it has to pay plaintiffs' legal costs.

Alaska Attorney General Michael Geraghty plans to fight a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A remote outpost on Alaska's Arctic Coast where people are used to doing their own thing has applied that independent streak to gay marriage.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's new attorney general said he will review issues related to the Alaska National Guard, including ensuring that proper prosecutions were brought for wrongful behavior.

October 11 is National Coming Out Day, and to celebrate ABC is re-releasing its digital talk series “All My Gay Friends Are Getting Married,” hosted by TV personality and comedian Michelle Collins.  

As the shock subsides over Charlie Sheen's recent self-outing of his HIV status, the scandal-beleaguered Hollywood bad boy may have some more damage control on his hands. Reports claim a gay sex tape has surfaced, allegedly showing Sheen, another man and a crack pipe.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost 1,400 gay and lesbian couples were issued marriage licenses in 28 of Florida's most-populous counties in the two days since a ban on same-sex marriage was lifted, according to a survey of clerks' of court by The Associated Press.

(CNN) -- One of the best things about Sunday night's American Music Awards wasn't even on the show.

Trying to keep up with the number of states now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples has been tricky business the past few weeks. The number of new states coming “on line” with marriage equality has changed almost every day –sometimes back and forth.

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton turned an 11-hour congressional grilling into a campaign call to action on foreign policy, using a make-or-break appearance before the Republican-led Benghazi committee to display a commanding, presidential presence under a barrage of questions.

WASHINGTON (AP) - For Scott Walker, it wasn't one thing that led to the demise of his presidential campaign. It was just about everything.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anglican leaders have temporarily suspended the U.S. Episcopal Church from key positions in their global fellowship because the church accepts gay marriage.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican justice on the Ohio Supreme Court says the legal obstacles facing his lesbian daughter, her partner and their two children have made him view the state's protections for same-sex couples and their families as inadequate.

OREGON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says his 19-year-old son's decision to act as a witness at the same-sex marriage of a relative is not a policy statement.

On June 3, Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel ruled against three anti-gay groups who wanted to intervene as parties in Pareto v. Ruvin, the lawsuit challenging Florida’s discriminatory marriage laws in the circuit court for Miami-Dade.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Judges or court clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples would lose their jobs under a bill that has been approved by a House committee.

TOPEKA, Kansas - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Wednesday that his vigorous defense of the state's gay marriage ban is designed to get a final decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Linda Massey opposes gay marriage. But she was incensed last summer to see that Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, was refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples."If the government says you have to give out those marriage licenses, and you get paid to do it, you do it," says the 64-year-old retiree from Lewiston, Michigan. "That woman," she said of Davis, "should be out of a job."

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — While finding that Americans narrowly favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to legally marry, a new Associated Press-GfK poll also shows most believe wedding-related businesses should be allowed to deny service to same-sex couples for religious reasons.

JACKSON -- For weeks, Rebecca "Becky" Bickett and her longtime partner Andrea Sanders kept a bag packed with wedding clothes. It stayed in their minivan, Bickett said, so they could get ready on short notice in case a judicial ruling suddenly allowed same-sex couples, like themselves, to marry in Mississippi.