The Spartans pulled off an upset of a much higher seed in the first round of a national post-season basketball tournament. The men’s basketball team downed No. 1 seed Alabama in the NIT’s first round, knocking out one of the tournament’s top contenders. Norfolk State won 80-79 in overtime. As the No 8. seed, the … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Roy Moore, the GOP nominee for the Senate in Alabama (all times local): 4 p.m. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill says Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s name cannot be removed from the ballot this close to the election. Merrill said Friday that if the party chose to disqualify … Continue reading
Asthma sufferers and others with breathing problems are turning up at hospitals and doctors’ waiting rooms, wheezing and hacking. Schoolchildren are being kept inside at recess. And people whose lungs are easily irritated are being told to close the windows and run the air conditioner if they have one. Dozens of wildfires that have burned … Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has restated a policy that bans the raising of Confederate flags on permanent poles in federal cemeteries, affecting dozens of burial grounds across the nation — especially in the Deep South — and further contributing to the slow death of the 19th century symbols in modern American life. The … Continue reading
Police in a south Alabama town say a mystery solved itself when a man, alerted by news reports, stopped by the station to claim a small pine box containing his father’s ashes, found beside a country road with a neatly folded and framed American flag. Publicity about the mystery led the man to pick up … Continue reading
EAST SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The pastor and members of the congregation that wrestled a gun away from a man police say opened fired in an Alabama church are being praised as heroes. James Junior Minter, 26, is being held without bond in the shooting of his girlfriend, his infant son and the church pastor, … Continue reading
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — Thunderstorms rolling across the Gulf Coast hampered the search Monday, April 27 for four boaters still missing two days after a deadly squall overturned sailboats during a yearly race in Mobile Bay. With two people already confirmed dead in the 57th annual Dauphin Island Regatta, crews used boats to search … Continue reading
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row walked free Friday hours after prosecutors acknowledged that the only evidence they had against him couldn’t prove he committed the crime. Ray Hinton was 29 when he was arrested for two 1985 killings. Freed at age 58, with grey … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Alabama should have the chance to justify a fuel sales tax that it assesses on railroads but not on competitors in the trucking and barge industries. The justices ruled 7-2 against CSX Transportation Inc., which had challenged the state’s assessment of a 4 percent sales tax … Continue reading
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The state of marriage in Alabama was thrown into confusion Wednesday as probate judges struggled to decide whether to follow the state high court’s ruling banning same-sex weddings or a federal judge’s earlier order to issue licenses. At least one probate office — in Mobile County, one of the state’s … Continue reading
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Monday, Jan. 26, began the process of appealing a federal judge’s decision that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage — a decision that was put on hold to allow time for the appeal. Attorney General Luther Strange’s office filed notice with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of … Continue reading
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has put a temporary hold on her decision that overturned Alabama’s gay marriage ban, but indicated she will soon answer a key question: Must state probate judges issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples when the stay is lifted? U.S. District Judge Callie V. S. Granade on Sunday … Continue reading
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches in Selma and the movie that tells the story are expected to bring thousands of visitors to this historic Alabama city this year. Visitors can still walk across the bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965 and see the churches … Continue reading
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches in Selma and the movie that tells the story are expected to bring thousands of visitors to this historic Alabama city this year. Visitors can still walk across the bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965 and see the churches where … Continue reading
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