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Alabama 'personhood' bill dies without vote: Legislation would have ended abortion in state
An Alabama "personhood" bill which would have effectively banned abortion in the state failed to make it to a vote Thursday in the House of Representatives. After House Democrats mounted a filibuster, the House adjourned before getting to Republican Rep. Ed Henry's proposed constitutional amendment. With only five meeting days left in the legislative session, it's unlikely the bill will come to the floor again. "There's no time," Henry said. "It's essentially dead."
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Charges Dropped for Alabama Cop Who Partially Paralyzed Grandfather
Following a motion filed Thursday by Alabama's attorney general, a judge dismissed state misdemeanor assault charges against a Madison police officer who allegedly slammed an Indian man to the ground last February during a suspicious-person stop. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange's request came after two federal juries failed to reach verdicts in the civil rights case against Eric Parker, the officer accused of taking down 58-year-old Sureshbhai Patel...
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Authorities: 6 dead in plane crash in Alabama
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Six people died when a small aircraft flying from central Florida to Oxford, Mississippi, developed engine problems and crashed Sunday morning while trying to land in Alabama, authorities said.…
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Police: Estranged boyfriend in Ala. kills 5, including pregnant woman
27-year-old Derrick Dearman of Mississippi has been charged with the brutal murder of five people early Saturday in Alabama Time. Police in southwestern Alabama said Sunday a 27-year-old man who confessed to killing five people early Saturday, including a pregnant woman, will be charged with six counts of capital murder. Authorities said the suspect, Derrick Dearman, used “multiple weapons” in the killings. He was in custody in Mississippi after kidnapping his girlfriend and a 3-month-old infant. The pair were later released unharmed.
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Christian Woman Must be Allowed to Wear Religious Headscarf for Driver License Photo, ACLU Lawsuit Says
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Alabama filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of a Christian woman who was forced by Lee County officials to remove her headscarf, worn for religious reasons, in order to have her photo taken for a driver license. Tuskegee resident Yvonne Allen wears a headscarf because she believes her Christian faith requires her to cover her hair at all times in public.
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Discussion on the Battle of Mobile Bay
John Quarstein talked about the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, and the roles played by Union Rear Admiral David Farragut and the Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan. The fighting resulted in a Union victory and closed one of the Confederacy’s last major ports. The victory, coupled with the fall of Atlanta to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in early September, gave a boost to President Abraham Lincoln’s bid for re-election just a couple of months later.
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Disunion: Commander Preble’s Very Bad Day
Imagine it’s the summer of 1862, and you have just one job: guarding a few miles of the Gulf Coast to keep enemy ships from crossing the Union naval blockade.
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Gas prices expected to jump again Sunday
Gas prices are expected to jump again Monday morning as more stations across the metro area experience spotty outages caused by a broken pipeline in Alabama. That pipeline is one of two major pipelines that sends gas from Texas to New York, supplying much of north Georgia. A leak earlier this week led to a complete shutdown, causing a major disruption of fuel shipments.
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Alabama pipeline leak: What we know so far about the spill, gas shortages and more
On the morning of Sept. 9, an inspector with the Alabama Surface Mining Commission was performing a routine monthly check of an old coal mine in Shelby County when he noticed "a strong odor of gasoline" as well as a sheen on the surface of one of the retention ponds. The gasoline he was smelling came from Colonial Pipeline's Line 1, an underground pipeline three feet in diameter that normally pushes 1.3 million barrels of gasoline per day from refineries in Houston to distribution centers across the Southeast and along the eastern seaboard.
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Dangerous New Natural Gas Pipeline Will Span Most Of Florida, Georgia And Alabama
The US Army Corps of Engineers finalized permits earlier this month for a $3.2 billion natural gas pipeline that will span 516 miles, crossing through the majority of Florida as well as large swaths of Georgia and Alabama. The pipeline project is owned by the Sabal Trail partnership, composed of Houston-based Spectra Energy, North Carolina’s […]
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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore suspended from office for remainder of term
Alabama’s top judge was suspended from the bench and removed from office without pay for the remainder of his term, the state’s Court of the Judiciary ruled Friday. This is the second time Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, has been effectively removed from office, following his ouster in 2003 over his refusal to obey judicial rulings ordering him to remove a Ten Commandments statue from the Alabama Judicial Building.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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