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Severe weather continues in Alabama this week and into the weekend. As locals prepare for the strong storms, U.S. government forecasters are heavily warning of catastrophic weather northwest of the Yellowhammer State that will bring major tornado outbreaks.
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A plea deal reveals that an Alabama sheriff’s deputy will plead guilty to assaulting a man suffering from a mental health crisis. In 2023, Tony Mitchell died in the local jail just two weeks later after he was detained in a concrete cell covered in feces with no toilet or access to medical attention. -
An Alabama judge is ruling that a police officer was not acting in self-defense when he shot an armed Black man who was standing in his own front yard. Body camera footage shows the officer shooting 18 bullets less than two seconds after identifying himself as law enforcement. -
This week marks two hundred years since a 1825 tour of the United States by the Marquis de Lafayette. The French general served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War. LaFayette later became a key figure in the French Revolution in 1789. He also holds the distinction of being the only foreign leader ever invited to be a guest of the nation by order of Congress. President James Monroe asked LaFayette to tour the U.S., and that included Alabama. -
Supporters of an Iranian University of Alabama student are speaking out with their dollars. A now closed GoFundMe site includes close to twenty six thousand dollars for the legal defense of Alireza Doroudi. Donors sent amounts ranging from five to three hundred dollars. It’s been just over a week since ICE agents arrested the engineering doctoral candidate. -
As pollen fills the air, many people will suffer from pollen allergies this spring. Experts from The University of Alabama at Birmingham offer tips and advice to help manage pollen allergies this year. -
The University of Alabama is preparing to host the second annual Bark to the Beat 5k on April 5. The run will serve as a fundraiser for the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter and will have live music performed by the University of Alabama School of Music and local high schools and have animals from the shelter. -
Nine local agencies serving Huntsville’s most vulnerable residents are getting a financial boost in federal funding. The organizations will receive about $300,000 to help unsheltered populations in the Rocket City. -
Misty Chaviers is back with StoryCorps to share how she became an advocate against domestic violence and how she tries to help others get out of bad situations. -
At least half of U.S. states now outlaw devices that can convert pistols into machine guns. Alabama and New Mexico are the latest to take a stand against so-called Glock switches. The small parts can be attached to handguns to make them fire like machine guns.
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After the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, hundreds of children from the affected areas dealt with multiple health issues caused by radiation from the nuclear meltdown. A few years later, families from all across Alabama housed many of those same children for a summer to give them access to better healthcare and a reprieve from the radiation.
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Grocery shoppers would get a slight tax cut under an Alabama bill. State representatives who passed the bill Tuesday said families are being hurt by soaring grocery prices. The largest proposed tax cut would reduce the state sales tax on food from 3% to 2%. -
Alabama lawmakers approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns. A bipartisan coalition pushed the Alabama legislation after several multiple mass shootings last year. The bill now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey. -
A Republican-led bill that would allow resentencing for prisoners serving life sentences for nonviolent offenses has narrowly advanced in the Alabama Senate. The 17-8 vote Tuesday was a rare demonstration of bipartisanship as nationally both Democrats and Republicans push for tough-on-crime policies.
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Last week on StoryCorps, Myra and Barabara discussed suffrage activist Eugenia Marx. They're back today to talk about the League of Women Voters in Mobile and what they have accomplished since the chapter's conception in 1955.Note: No image available -
If a doctor has ever told you to change your diet, chances are they handed you a piece of paper with a list of foods. And most likely none of it looked appealing. But doctors in coastal Alabama are on the forefront of a delicious health trend hoping to change that. -
Investigators with the National Weather Service is establishing the intensity of tornadoes reported in Alabama. Three people were killed during the weekend weather that included at least five confirmed twisters. -
It’s time for March Madness and number two seed Alabama will face its first opponent this Friday. The Crimson Tide’s entry into the NCAA tournament comes after the team lost its shot at the SEC Championship after falling to Florida in the semifinals. -
Investigators with the National Weather Service will spend today working to establish the intensity of tornadoes that hit the southern U.S. Unconfirmed twisters in Alabama hit northwest of Tuscaloosa and southeast of the state capitol of Montgomery. One storm near Birmingham picked up a school bus and dropped it on a local high school. Violent weather in Georgia flipped a gas station onto its roof. Roads remain impassable due to downed trees and power lines -
Walter Clayton Jr. scored 22 points, and number four Florida pulled away from number five ranked Alabama for a 104-82 victory in the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals. -
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