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November 19, 2020 at 12:07 pm

Alabama man arrested in 1995 slaying after calling police

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The days without an arrest turned into months and then years after someone killed Christopher Alvin Dailey in 1995. While never...

FILE – This Sept. 2, 2020, file photo shows the magnolia centered banner chosen by the Mississippi State Flag Commission displayed outside the Old State Capitol Museum in downtown Jackson, Miss. Voters approved the design in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. It replaces a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired in late June as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) NYAG603 NYAG603

November 8, 2020 at 5:09 am

5 states OK measures eradicating racist language, symbols VIEW

Five states voted to cleanse the public sphere of words, phrases and symbols that to many were painful reminders of the nation's history of slavery...

October 23, 2020 at 7:05 am

Voters could remove racist phrases from Alabama Constitution

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters once again have the chance to remove the racist language of Jim Crow from the state's constitution, which was...

October 15, 2020 at 8:59 am

Historically black school renames hall honoring KKK leader

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A historically black university in Alabama has renamed a dormitory that honored a one-time governor who also led a Ku Klux...

September 30, 2020 at 1:08 pm

Alabama governor apologizes to ’63 church bombing survivor

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has apologized to a survivor of a racist 1963 church bombing that killed four Black girls, calling the blast an “egregious...

September 21, 2020 at 5:50 am

Alabama Archives faces its legacy as Confederate ‘attic’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Hundreds of memorials glorifying the Confederacy had been erected by the time Marie Bankhead Owen built what may have been the...

September 18, 2020 at 8:14 am

Hundreds of thousands still without power in Sally cleanup VIEW

LOXLEY, Ala. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people were still without power Friday along the Alabama coast and the Florida Panhandle in the aftermath...

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September 17, 2020 at 11:59 am

‘IN ATTIC HELP’: Couple is rescued from storm Sally by water

CANTONMENT, Fla. (AP) — The firetrucks and rescue vehicles kept passing her house even after Elaine Hulgan, 76, wrote “IN ATTIC HELP” on the front...

September 16, 2020 at 10:00 pm

Rescuers reach people cut off by Gulf Coast hurricane VIEW

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Rescuers on the Gulf Coast used boats and high-water vehicles Thursday to reach people cut off by floodwaters in the aftermath...

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Floodwaters move on the street, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) FLMS104 FLMS104

September 15, 2020 at 10:29 pm

At least 1 dead, hundreds rescued after Hurricane Sally VIEW

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line with 105 mph winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and trapping people in...

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