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Incestuous child group sex ring uncovered in Alabama
By most accounts, 19-year-old Brittney Wood was with uncle Donnie Holland the night of May 30, 2012, the last time anyone saw her. Holland — who was under investigation for horrific sex crimes at the time — died from a bullet within days in what was ruled a suicide.
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Grandmother Found Guilty in Death of 9-Year-Old Savannah Hardin
An Alabama jury has convicted a woman of capital murder in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter. Joyce Hardin Garrard faces a penalty of death or life without parole for the February 2012 death of 9-year-old Savannah Hardin. Sentencing will be later. Garrard showed no reaction, but some relatives sitting behind her began to cry. Authorities claimed the 49-year-old woman forced the girl to run and carry wood for hours as punishment for a lie about candy.
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Alabama man off death row after 28 years to jailers: You will answer to God
Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, spent half his life on Alabama’s death row, sentenced to die for two 1985 murders that for decades he insisted he did not commit. Over 28 years, the outside world changed while Hinton spent his days largely in a 5ft by 8ft prison cell. Children grew up. His mother died. His hair turned gray. Inmates he knew were escorted off to the electric chair or the lethal-injection gurney.
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Mysterious earthquake swarms in Alabama. What's going on?
Jim Sterling didn't know what had hit his 156-year-old antebellum home when an earthquake struck Alabama's old plantation region early one morning last November. Startled, he grabbed a gun and ran outdoors. In the pre-dawn chill, Sterling said, he found an odd scene: horses were galloping, cows mooing and dogs barking.
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What’s Changed, and What Hasn’t, in the Town That Inspired “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Traveling back in time to visit Harper Lee's hometown, the setting of her 1960 masterpiece and the controversial sequel hitting bookstores soon. By Paul Theroux.
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Pistol-whipped cop didn’t shoot black suspect, didn’t want to be labeled murderer
The Alabama cop who was attacked with his own service weapon last week hesitated to shoot the suspect because he feared losing his job. The unnamed officer apparently feared being labelled the next Darren Wilson (the Ferguson cop who shot dead Michael Brown), said Heath Boackle, a sergeant with the Birmingham Police Department and president of the city's Fraternal Order of Police.
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Welcome to Quakelahoma
First, there was a little rumble. A bit later came the roar. At the Cripple Creek Stoneyard in Crescent, Oklahoma, clocks fell off the walls, and the office bounced on its slab. At Hometown Foods, the shelves swayed from side to side, tossing cans onto the floor. "It shook stock off every aisle," Hometown co-owner Brian Johnston told VICE News. "It was getting bigger and shaking harder. I was like, 'Crap, this is it.' "
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Alabama Is About To Make It Much Harder To Get A Voter ID
With Alabama’s Republican controlled legislature refusing to consider any tax hikes, the state is preparing to take drastic measures to address its budget crisis, including shutting down all state parks and the vast majority of Departments of Motor Vehicles (DMVs). The proposal to close dozens of DMVs across the state, starting in rural areas, could hurt voters who need access to those offices in order to get the ID they need to cast a ballot.
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Alabama Official: God Told Me to Ban Saggy Pants
God may also ban short skirts and skimpy dresses in the Alabama town of Dadeville.
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Alabama to stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties with 75% black registered voters
The state of Alabama, which requires a photo ID to vote, announced this week that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties where 75 percent of registered voters are black.
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Clarence Carter
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Alabama version of ‘Skull and Bones’ publicly exposed
The fabled Skull and Bones society is the stuff of lore at Yale University. Harvard University has Final Clubs, known as a grooming place for the rich and powerful. In Tuscaloosa, a group called "The Machine" may not rise to Ivy League heights of prestige or mystique. But it's a powerful force at the University of Alabama... By Jay Reeves.
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Alabama sues federal government over Syrian refugees
Alabama officials sued the U.S. government on Thursday to force the Obama administration to provide more information on the settlement of refugees from Syria and other countries in the state. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court in Birmingham, accused the Obama administration of failing to consult state officials about any refugees to be settled in the state, in violation of the federal Refugee Act of 1980.
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Huge, Violent Tornado in McMullen, Alabama
Mike Scantlin, Marcus Diaz and Connor McCrorey came less than a quarter mile away from this massive tornado in western Alabama,2/2/2016.
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Tornadoes Slam Alabama, Mississippi, But No Deaths Reported
Another round of severe weather hit the South, where at least nine tornadoes have been reported.
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Alabama passes law banning cities and towns from increasing minimum wage
Alabama’s governor and legislature Thursday blocked Birmingham’s attempts to raise the city’s minimum wage as they swiftly approved legislation to strip cities of their ability to set hourly pay requirements. The Alabama senate passed the legislation on a 23-11 vote that largely broke along party lines. Governor Robert Bentley signed the bill into law about an hour later. The legislation voids a Birmingham city ordinance attempting to...
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Alabama Lawmaker Wants Sex Offenders To Pay For Their Own Castration
An Alabama lawmaker known for parading around on a giant gun-shaped barbecue grill has once again taken up his pet project: the surgical castration of sex offenders. “This bill would provide that any person over the age of 21 years who is convicted of certain sex offenses against a child 12 years of age or younger would be surgically castrated before his or her release from the custody of the Department of Corrections,” HB 365 reads.
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How British businesses helped the Confederacy fight the American Civil War
The American Civil War devastated the US, but it also had serious consequences for the world beyond. Among them was the Lancashire cotton famine, which plunged thousands of British subjects into poverty. But the war also provided great opportunities to others outside the US who were willing to exploit them.
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Rare Birds Getting $1.4 Million in BP Oil Spill Money to Help Audubon Protect Coastal Populations
The Birmingham and Mobile Bay chapters of the Audubon Society have been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the BP oil spill settlement to better monitor and protect shorebirds along the Alabama coast.
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Alabama teachers may soon receive training on not having sex with students
A bill approved by an Alabama Senate committee would require teachers to receive an hour of training a year on sexual relations and other inappropriate relations with students. The Education Policy Committee approved the bill by Sen. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, the Decatur Daily reported. The Educator-Student Interaction Training Act would require training on sexual or romantic contact, social media interactions, interactions outside the classroom and the use of corporal...
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