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Alabama basketball player, 2nd man charged with murder
Alabama basketball player Darius Miles and another man have been charged with capital murder after a fatal shooting near campus
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Alabama abandons execution after failing to find vein for lethal injection
Alan Miller’s judicial killing called off two months after execution of Joe Nathan James took three hours
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What Lurks in a Drowned Forest in Alabama?
The next miracle drug might be hiding in a primeval undersea forest.
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An Alabama couple can't adopt a child because they're non-religious
Alabama's private adoption agencies don't want to work with non-religious couples like Alaina Browning and her atheist husband.
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Police in this tiny Alabama town suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’
Using unmarked police cars and uniforms without insignia, the town with no traffic lights collected $487 in fines and forfeitures in 2020 for every man, woman and child. Total town income more than doubled from 2018 to 2020 – from $582,000 to more than $1.2 million – as fines and forfeitures rose 640%.
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Alabama boy certified as world's most premature baby
Curtis Means defied all odds after he was delivered in Birmingham, Alabama, weighing just 420g.
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Dog’s bark saved Alabama family as fire swept through home
A dog has been credited with saving an Alabama family’s lives after his bark awakened them to a fire that was sweeping through their rental home early Tuesday morning. The dog, Ralph, “doesn’t usually make a sound at night,” said Derek Walker, who lived in the Birmingham home with his wife and two children, according to AL.com.
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Meet the company that sells your lost airplane luggage
If you’ve ever permanently lost a checked bag, your stuff probably ended up for sale at a store in Scottsboro, Alabama.
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Alabama man arrives in Minneapolis after walking 1,000+ miles in honor of George Floyd
An Alabama man's journey to Minneapolis is nearly complete. Terry Willis has been walking from Alabama to 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, the spot where George Floyd died in police custody. "This has been a long long long journey," said Willis Saturday afternoon as he arrived at the Clientele Barbershop in north Minneapolis.
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Alabama jail denies inmates COVID-19 masks because ‘they’re going to eat them'
When Courtney Moore was arrested and taken to the Madison County jail, he was wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. But the Huntsville police officers who took him into custody weren’t wearing masks, Moore said, and neither were the employees inside the county jail.
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Alabama man who spent 36 years in prison for stealing $50 to be released soon
A man from Alabama who served 36 years in prison for stealing $50.75 from a bakery will soon be released, according to reports. In 1983, Alvin Kennard, now 58, was convicted of first-degree robbery in connection with the January 24, 1983 theft at Highlands Bakery and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, under Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act. Court papers show $50.75 was stolen in the incident, AL.com reported.
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How a Meteorite Ruined an Alabama Woman's Afternoon 65 Years Ago
Sixty-five years ago, a few days after Thanksgiving, Ann Hodges was snuggled up on the sofa in her Alabama home when a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashed through the ceiling and struck the left side of her body. Not the best interruption to the holiday season.
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Manslaughter charge dropped against woman whose foetus died in Alabama shooting
A grand jury had ruled Marshae Jones intentionally caused the caused the shooting death of her foetus by initiating a fight. But after a public outcry, prosecutors have dropped the charge.
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Alabama Woman Who Was Shot While Pregnant Is Charged in Fetus’s Death
Marshae Jones was five months pregnant when she was shot in the stomach. The police say she initiated a fight that led to the shooting.
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Alabama governor signs law allowing church to have its own police force
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) signed a bill into law to allow a Presbyterian church to have its own police force. The law approved during the most recent legislative session gives Briarwood Presbyterian Church and its private school on the same campus the ability to hire private police officers who can make arrests if crimes are committed on the property, according to The Associated Press.
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Alabama mayor refuses to resign after saying to "kill" LGBTQ community on Facebook
"I know it's bad to say but with out [sic] killing them out there's no way to fix it," the mayor wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies
The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.
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Alabama Public Television decides not to air Arthur gay wedding episode
Alabama Public Television has chosen not to air a headline-grabbing episode of Arthur, because the recent instalment of the PBS children's show includes a same-sex wedding.
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Alabama executes murderer one day after signing near-total ban on abortions
Execution highlights divide between Christian conservatives on abortion and capital punishment
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Arrest Me, You Alabama Cowards
The state's abortion ban treats women as victims of evil doctors rather than informed, willing participants. By Emily Atkin.
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