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Outrage growing over black woman's arrest in Alabama Waffle House by white police officers
The treatment of a 25-year-old black Mobile woman who was arrested early Sunday morning inside a Waffle House in Saraland by white Saraland Police officers is quickly driving outrage in Alabama and beyond. Chikesia Clemons, whose arrest was captured on graphic video that is currently going viral on social media, will be speaking to members of the Mobile County NAACP Branch Sunday afternoon. Several community members held a sit-in protest Sunday afternoon...
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Former Alabama football star graduates after 15 years in prison
Sherman Williams ran with a football for the University of Alabama and for the Dallas Cowboys. Later, he ran from the law. On Sunday, he walked to get his degree. Williams, who played for the Crimson Tide in the 1990s – and who spent 15 years in federal prison – graduated with a degree in interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in community leadership.
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Boy regains consciousness after parents sign papers to donate his organs
A 13-year-old boy who suffered severe brain trauma in an accident regained consciousness after his parents signed paperwork to donate his organs. Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Alabama, suffered the injury two months ago when a small utility trailer he was riding flipped over. "I hit the concrete, and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don't remember anything," he told WALA-TV.
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Police: Man in custody after pulling out a gun at Huntsville immigration policy protest
A man is in custody after pulling out a gun at a protest in Big Spring Park according to Huntsville police. Lt. Michael Johnson confirms 34-year-old Shane Ryan Sealy was arrested Saturday. and charged with menacing and reckless endangerment. Bond has not been set. Police say no shots were fired and no one was hurt.
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Alabama police officers suspended for supposedly racist hand gesture
Four officers in the Jasper Police Department were suspended for making a hand gesture while posing for a photo. Some people claimed the circular gesture was racist, according to the city's mayor, David O'Mary.
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11th Circuit OKs Suit Against Cop Who Repeatedly Tased Elderly Driver
The appellate court agreed with the lower court that there was enough evidence that an Argo Alabama officer used excessive force in repeatedly tasing a man who went into diabetic shock while driving.
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Alabama Cops Kill 21-Year-Old After They Say He Opened Fire In A Mall. Now They Say He Didn't
There was no “maybe.”
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Alabama Police Department Blames Homicide Increase On Godlessness, Satan
A small-town Alabama police department this week alleged Beelzebub is responsible for a recent spike in homicides and it’s all thanks to nonbelievers in the rural community. The Opp Police Department shared the bold opinion on its Facebook page Tuesday. Written in all capital letters, it read, in part...
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Mysterious Alabama cave inscriptions decoded to reveal game similar to lacrosse
A team of scholars and archaeologists have decoded Cherokee inscriptions written hundreds of years ago in a cave in Alabama. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are the first evidence of the tribe's syllabary, which uses symbols to create words. Experts say one inscription describes a game similar to lacrosse. They say it details an 1828 match and indicates players entered the cave before the games and during intermission for specific ceremonies.
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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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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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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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'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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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