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FLORENCE — Leigh Ann Hill and Chasity Hites began their Christmas shopping while it still was dark outside on Black Friday and plan to make the most of the season.
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FLORENCE — Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly has a problem with an Alabama senator who is being critical of his prosecution of a case from 177 miles away.
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WASHINGTON — Inflation is soaring, businesses are struggling to hire and President Joe Biden's poll numbers have been in free-fall. The White House sees a common culprit for it all: COVID-19.
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The following donations to the Empty Table Fund were received last week:
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SHEFFIELD — After several years of working through multiple grants and altered plans, the Sheffield River Heritage Trail is substantially completed.
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Dayton Board of Zoning Appeals has approved the city's request to demolish a 129-year-old historic building that once was the site of the Wright brothers' first bike shop.
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MUSCLE SHOALS — Elaine Coan said she's learned a lot working alongside City Clerk Ricky Williams for so many years, and she's ready to take over the clerk's position once Williams leaves at the end of January.
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MONTGOMERY — A northern Alabama Republican lawmaker said he plans to bring legislation next year to make adjustments to the state’s monuments protection act.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Luz Rivas remembers seeing the word on her mother’s residency card as a child: “alien.”
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TUSCUMBIA — With bonds sold and money in the bank, Colbert County commissioners will now focus on hiring an architect to design plans for the new jail.
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SELMA, Ala. (AP) — This year’s Alabama Education Association “Be A Champion and Read Contest” was full of firsts.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hondurans will choose a successor to deeply unpopular President Juan Orlando Hernández on Sunday in elections that could oust his National Party after 12 years in power.
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LONDON (AP) — The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread.
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A newly released AARP Fraud Watch Network Survey shows that calls related to holiday scams may be on the upswing soon.
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FLORENCE — Shoppers were out in heavy numbers on Black Friday locally with many shopping centers and Florence Mall seeing full parking lots.
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MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s capital city last month removed the Confederate president’s name from an avenue and renamed it after a lawyer known for his work during the civil rights movement.
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