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U.N. officials touring rural Alabama are shocked at the level of poverty and environmental degradation
Updated | A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world. "I think it's very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where "raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits."
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Roy Moore Emerges from Self-Imposed Exile to Chat with 12-Year-Old Girl
The candidate for Alabama's Senate race—who's been accused of sexually pursuing teens in his 30s—sat down with Millie March to talk about border security. By Allie Conti.
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In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all
Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all. At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued an order directing Alabama election officials to preserve all digital ballot images created at polling places across the state today.
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In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all
Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all.
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‘We’re being suppressed’: Black Alabamians forced to cast provisional ballots
Dechauna Jiles was excited to cast a ballot on Tuesday for Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones. She said her parents grew up two blocks from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was bombed by the KKK during the civil rights movement, and it would be a dishonor to her family to not vote in this election. But when she arrived at her polling place, the First Assembly of God Church, on Tuesday morning, Jiles was told that she was “inactive” on the rolls and would have to cast a provisional ballot — a ballot that will not be counted unless she is able to verify her voter information.
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Roy Moore Reemerges for an Election-Eve Rally, and Good Lord, Was It Weird
The rally in a remote barn featured Steve Bannon, a dig at Ivanka, a reference to Moore’s Jewish lawyer, and several inflatable alligators. By Olivia Nuzzi.
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What I Saw Inside Roy Moore’s Barn Burner
The message made zero sense. People lapped it up. By Charles P. Pierce.
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UN poverty official touring Alabama’s Black Belt: ‘I haven’t seen this’ in the First World
A United Nations official who tours the globe investigating extreme poverty said Thursday that areas of Alabama’s Black Belt are suffering the most dire sewage disposal crisis of any place he has visited in a developed country. By Connor Sheets.
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Once a Long Shot, Democrat Doug Jones Wins Alabama Senate Race
Doug Jones, a former prosecutor, defeated scandal-scarred Roy S. Moore for the Senate seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Charles Barkley reacts to Doug Jones’ Alabama senate win: ‘This is a wake-up call’
An Alabama native, Barkley campaigned for Jones leading up to Tuesday’s election. By Colin Ward-Henninger.
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The Last Days of Roy Moore: Inside the Bewildering End of the Alabama Election
How Doug Jones vanquished Moore and delivered Donald Trump what may be the most damning loss of his tenure. By T.A. Frank.
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Alabama Wins National Championship With a Halftime Twist
The true freshman Tua Tagovailoa replaced Alabama’s starting quarterback, Jalen Hurts, at halftime, and led the Crimson Tide past Georgia in a thrilling comeback.
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Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship, archaeologists say
Relying on historical records and accounts from old timers, AL.com may have located the long-lost wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to bring human cargo to the United States.
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Bill applies felony charge to owners of dogs that maim or kill
Legislation moving through the Alabama State House would make owners of dogs who severely injure or kill people subject to felony charges. The bill is named after Emily Colvin, who was attacked and killed by five dogs in front of her home in Section in Jackson County in December. Colvin was 24. Five members of Colvin's family were on hand today when House and Senate committees approved the bill, which is sponsored in the House by...
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Student Dead, Another Injured In "Accidental" Shooting At Alabama School
One student was killed and another teen was injured when a gun discharged at an Alabama high school Wednesday in what police described as an accidental shooting. The incident took place at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Alabama, between 3:15 and 3:30 p.m., and sparked a brief lockdown at the school, according to police and school officials. Birmingham Police Chief Orlando Wilson said the shooting left a 17-year-old girl dead and a 17-year-old boy wounded.
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Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House
A sheriff in Alabama took home as personal profit more than $750,000 that was budgeted to feed jail inmates — and then purchased a $740,000 beach house, a reporter at The Birmingham News found. And it's perfectly legal in Alabama, according to state law and local officials. Alabama has a Depression-era law that allows sheriffs to "keep and retain" unspent money from jail food-provision accounts.
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Teen turns down plea deal for 25 years in prison, gets 65 years instead
A teenager tried as an adult under Alabama's accomplice liability law was sentenced to 65 years in prison Thursday after rejecting an earlier plea deal that recommended 25 years. In a two-day trial in March, Lakeith Smith, now 18, of Montgomery was convicted of felony murder, burglary and theft for helping in the 2015 break-ins of two homes in Millbrook, about 10 miles north of Montgomery. He did not kill A'Donte Washington, 16, of Montgomery, who was part of a group of five accused in the thefts.
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‘God help us if it gets hot’: Train hauling 10M pounds of human feces stranded in town
Right now, dozens of train cars carrying 10 million pounds of poop are stranded in a rural Alabama rail yard. Technically it's biowaste, but to the 982 residents in the small town of Parrish, that's just semantics. They want it gone. The load has been there for almost two months, and it's making the whole place smell like a rotting animal carcass.
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This NASA engineer from Alabama is a good man to see on your flight
If you saw a white substance streaming away from your airplane's wing after takeoff, what would you do? Figure it's just a weird air thing and ignore it? Keep an eye on it? Or would you rely on your background as a NASA aerospace engineer, where safety is an everyday issue, and realize it was time to flag down the flight attendant? NASA aerospace engineer Rumaasha Maasha made choice No. 3 on a flight out of Huntsville, Ala., and that's why he's being praised for quick action in a bad situation.
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Teenager Lakeith Smith Sentenced To 65 Years For Death Of Friend Killed By Cop
The 18-year-old denied a plea deal of 25 years, receiving a full 65-year punishment from an Alabama judge instead.
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