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Cullman man drives 2 hours to help search, finds missing DeKalb County girl
The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office confirms a 3-year-old girl who was reported missing on Thursday evening has been found. Deputies tell us Serenity Dawn Sanders was found safely around 7:30 Friday morning roughly about 600 yards from her house. When she went missing Eric Gilbreath got a call about it. "Your heart just falls out on the floor. My first thought was helping getting out there and looking. I wasn't going to give up," Gilbreath explained.
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Moore crushes Strange in Alabama Senate primary
The outcome came after Mitch McConnell and the GOP establishment spent millions to stop the bellicose outsider.
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Establishment gears up for Steve Bannon’s war on the GOP leadership
The Senate contest in Alabama is testing the power of moneyed interests against Trump’s conservative base. By Michael Scherer and Matea Gold.
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A Very Scary Fish Story
The vanishing of an iconic river creature in Alabama poses terrifying questions about the water we swim in and fish in and drink. (Jul 24, 2017)
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The Resegregation of Jefferson County
What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.
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Alabama HS students want classroom LGBT flag removed, compare it to Confederate flag
Students and parents at a high school in Alabama are calling for the removal of a classroom LGBT “rainbow pride” flag, saying it is comparable to the Confederate flag. More than 2,400 people thus far have signed a Change.org petition calling for the flag to be taken down at Auburn High School.
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Judge Strikes Down AL Law Requiring Girls to Go Through Trial Before Abortion
We recently posted about a disturbing case in Alabama involving as 12-year-old girl who needed to get an abortion after being raped by an adult family member. While the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals finally agreed she didn’t need parental consent normally required in that situation, there were government officials trying to make sure she couldn’t go through with the procedure. They were literally in court on behalf of the unborn child, urging the state to make the 12-year-old girl give birth.
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Group wants McDonald’s employees fired for hiding bacon in Muslim family’s sandwiches
A Muslim civil rights organization is asking management at a McDonald’s located in Decatur, Alabama to identify and fire the staff who allegedly hid pieces of bacon in 14 chicken sandwiches ordered by a Muslim family. The Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called the franchise today with the request after the family sent them a video taken yesterday, after they each found a small piece of bacon on each sandwich. Eating pork products are strictly prohibited in Islam.
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Mail carrier arrested for feeding dog meatballs with nails
An Alabama mail carrier has been charged after authorities say she fed at least one dog meatballs that contained nails. AL.com reports that 47-year-old Susanna Dawn Burhans was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals.
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Tuskegee syphilis study descendants speak about tragedy, seek healing
More than 80 years later, families of men in the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study detail a legacy of suffering, and seek healing. (May 10, 2017)
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Where Health Care Won’t Go
A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt. By Helen Ouyang.
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Disabled, or just desperate? Rural Americans turn to disability as jobs dry up
In rural Alabama, a man faced a difficult choice: Keep looking for work, or apply for disability? The lobby at the pain-management clinic had become crowded with patients, so relatives had gone outside to their trucks to wait, and here, too, sat Desmond Spencer, smoking a 9 a.m. cigarette and watching the door. He tried stretching out his right leg, knowing these waits can take hours, and winced. He couldn’t sit easily for long, not anymore, and so he took a sip of soda and again thought about what he should do.
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Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom
Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs. The South’s manufacturing renaissance comes with a heavy price. By Peter Waldman.
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Theater Cancels 'Beauty and the Beast' Due to Gay Character
An Alabama theater has canceled its plan to screen Disney’s Beauty and the Beast due to the inclusion of a gay character. The new owners of the Henagar Drive-In theater alerted its customers via Facebook that they have decided to not screen the film as previously planned after reports surfaced this week confirming the live-action remake’s version of LeFou (Josh Gad) is gay.
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How Jeff Sessions Helped Kill Equitable School Funding in Alabama
A lawsuit in the 1990s had Alabama poised to fund poor black school districts as fairly as wealthy white schools. As state attorney general, Sessions fought the effort passionately. By Ryan Gabrielson.
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Supreme Court gives Alabama another pass on its unconstitutional death penalty
While the main political spotlight these days is riveted on wherever President Trump happens to be — which is just the way he likes it — other parts of government continue to work, including the Supreme Court, which Monday rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of Alabama’s death penalty.
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Why the Election of 9 Black Female Judges in Alabama Matters
For a state that still has segregationist language in its constitution, it was a surprise. By Lindsay Peoples.
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How I turned a traffic ticket into the constitutional trial of the century
The traffic-camera ticket: like a parking ticket, it looks lawful enough. When they receive one, most people simply write the check. It seems like the sensible and law-abiding thing to do. But this is not a parking ticket. In legal terms, it is not a proceeding in rem—against your car. It is a legal action against you personally. And before you pay the fine, you might want to hear my story.
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I spent 28 years on death row
I was 29 and mowing the lawn at my mother’s house in Birmingham, Alabama, on a hot day in July 1985 when I looked up and saw two police officers. When my mom saw the handcuffs, she screamed. They asked me whether I owned a firearm, and I said no. They asked if my mother owned one, and I said yes. I asked the detective 50 times why I was being arrested. Eventually, he told me I was being arrested for a robbery. I told him, “You have the wrong man.” He said, “I don’t care whether you did it or not. You will be convicted.”
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A 600-mile walk to a singing river
Tom Hendrix doesn't advertise his wall, but its fame has spread by word of mouth to become something of a pilgrimage site.
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