For the Record - June 8, 2018

Alabama governor: In the June 7 Section A, an Associated Press article about state primaries around the nation said that Kay Ivey is the first female governor of Alabama. That distinction belongs to Lurleen Wallace, who was elected in 1966 and died of cancer in 1968 after serving for 16 months.

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