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Alabama police officers on leave following the fatal shooting of a 68-year-old man
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama police officer is being investigated for allegedly shooting and killing a ... Read more
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Birmingham officials plead for information on mass shooting, offer reward
BIRMINGHAM — Officials in Birmingham, Alabama, pleaded Monday with members of the public for information leading to arrests ... Read more
Local News
Cullman City Schools names Mark Stephens Coordinator of Student Affairs
Two days after a gunman took the lives of four people in a Georgia high school, Cullman City ... Read more
Columns
(Armstrong Williams) Does life begin at conception? Science has a voice
I was convinced beyond a moral doubt: Life begins at conception. But my conviction was more instinctual than ... Read more
Local News
Judge dismisses attempted kidnapping case in Sportsman Lake incident
Attempted kidnapping charges brought against two men earlier this month were dismissed after a preliminary hearing Monday, Aug. ... Read more
Local News
Cullman men face kidnapping charges, attorney says there’s more to the story
Two men are facing second-degree attempted kidnapping charges after a witness alerted law enforcement to what he believed ... Read more
Local News
Woman accepts plea deal in 2019 murder of her children
Sara Tapia Franco received two life sentences after she pled guilty to two lesser counts of murder Thursday, ... Read more
Local News
Update: APD: 15-year-old armed with knives, guns dies in police shooting
Athens Police officers responded to a home on Elles Drive on Saturday, June 15, around 2:15 p.m. after ... Read more
Columns
By the book: Murder leaves a path from the Dixie Mafia to Victorian England: ‘The Boys from Biloxi’ by John Grisham and ‘The new, annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson with Leslie. S. Klinger and Joe Hill
‘The Boys from Biloxi’ by John Grisham Boys will be boys in John Grisham’s 31st standalone novel — ... Read more
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Alabama voters to decide on removing racist language from Constitution
MONTGOMERY — In less than five weeks, voters will decide on renaming and updating Alabama’s Constitution, which proposes ... Read more