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FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — The University of North Alabama said the school will keep its lion mascot following a request by an animal rights group that the lion be transferred to a sanctuary.
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Political pressure from the White House and a series of “crazy in the middle of the night” texts, emails and phone calls caused top federal weather officials to wrongly admonish a weather office for a tweet that contradicted President Donald Trump about Hurricane Dorian in 2019, an inspector…
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city is seeking community input as it launches a search for a permanent school superintendent.
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SELMA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama lumber and flooring company has been fined $218,000 in the death of a worker hit by wood while trying to clear a jammed machine on Jan. 14.
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CLANTON, Ala. (AP) — A longtime Alabama mayor diagnosed with the disease caused by the new coronavirus has died, city officials said Thursday as the illness continued surging in the state.
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Public pressure amid protests over racial inequality forced Mississippi to furl its Confederate-inspired state flag for good, yet Georgia’s flag is based on another Confederate design and lives on. Why the difference?
MONTGOMERY — The coronavirus outbreak in Alabama is headed in a "bad direction," the head of the Alabama Hospital Association said Wednesday, as the state reached a new high for people hospitalized with COVID-19 and a new low for available intensive care beds.
ATHENS — A north Alabama judge accused of misusing court funds and stealing money from clients has resigned from his post.
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MONTGOMERY — States like Alabama with soaring coronavirus infection rates have a window of opportunity to bring it under control, the country's top infectious diseases expert said Tuesday as he spoke in favor of state and local requirements to wear face coverings in public.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak in Alabama is headed in a “bad direction," the head of the Alabama Hospital Association said Wednesday, as the state reached a new high for people hospitalized with COVID-19 and a new low for available intensive care beds.
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ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — A north Alabama judge accused of misusing court funds and stealing money from clients has resigned from his post.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Heavy overnight rains quickly swamped the west Alabama city of Tuscaloosa, covering roads with water and leaving guests stranded in a motel.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A public school district in Alabama will require students to wear masks for in-person classes when the school year kicks off in August.
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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Three people are now charged in the killing of an 8-year-old boy who was shot to death inside Alabama’s largest shopping mall, news outlets reported.
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MONTGOMERY — A bipartisan trio of state senators has for weeks been pushing a statewide COVID-19 school safety proposal that includes thermal scanning, rapid testing for the flu and COVID-19, 300 new school nurses, and 500-square-foot nurses stations and isolation units outside each public school.
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