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Radiology manager Marshall C. Pritchett Jr. works on a file at Thomasville Regional Medical Center in Thomasville, Ala., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The hospital is among three in the nation that say they are missing out on federal pandemic relief money because they opened during or shortly before the COVID-19 crisis began. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) ALJR103 ALJR103

May 16, 2022 at 10:11 pm

New US hospitals face fiscal crisis over COVID relief money VIEW

A handful of U.S. hospitals are facing a financial crisis that officials say was caused by the federal government's rules for pandemic relief money.

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A diver removes a sunken tree from the wreck of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, near Mobile, Ala., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. A crew spent days assessing remains of the ship, which was scuttled after arriving on the Gulf Coast more than 160 years ago. (AP Photo/Daniel Fiore, Alabama Historical Commission) ALDF101 ALDF101

May 12, 2022 at 5:39 am

Alabama shipwreck holds key for kin of enslaved Africans VIEW

A crew working on the Alabama coast is assessing the remains of the last slave ship known to have landed in the United States, more...

FILE – This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service and Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office in April 2022 shows inmate Casey White, left, and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White. The former Alabama jail official on the run with the murder suspect she was accused of helping escape shot and killed herself Monday, May 9, as authorities caught up with the pair after more than a week of searching, officials said. The man she fled with surrendered. (U.S. Marshals Service, Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File) NY550 NY550

May 10, 2022 at 5:33 am

Sheriff: Alabama inmate, jailer were prepared for a shootout VIEW

After more than a week on the run with a murder suspect, an Alabama jail official fatally shot herself as police closed in.

May 9, 2022 at 2:28 pm

‘Ultimate showman’ of bass fishing, Ray Scott, dead at 88

The Alabama promoter who helped found the bass fishing industry has died.

May 6, 2022 at 11:54 am

Sheriff: Car linked to Alabama escapee, jail worker found

Authorities in Tennessee say they have located an abandoned vehicle used by a man wanted in Alabama for murder and the jail official who disappeared...

May 4, 2022 at 5:19 am

Alabama church of ‘Bloody Sunday’ on endangered places list

An Alabama church that was at the center of the voting rights movement in the 1960s is now eaten up by termites and damaged by...

May 2, 2022 at 11:47 am

Push to arm Ukraine putting strain on US weapons stockpile VIEW

When President Joe Biden visits a Lockheed Martin plant on Tuesday that manufactures an antitank weapons system, he’s certain to herald the U.S.-made arms as...

May 1, 2022 at 8:14 am

Combat death puts spotlight on Americans fighting in Ukraine

A former U.S. Marine who died last week in Ukraine was believed to be the first American citizen killed while fighting there.

Anne Marshall, executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and the Ulysses S. Grant Association, discusses the legacy of the Union general and two-term president on at the library in Starkville, Miss., on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) MSJR101 MSJR101

April 25, 2022 at 8:25 am

Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant complicated 200 years after birth VIEW

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War general and two-term president Ulysses S. Grant, whose legacy is complicated and conflicting.

April 22, 2022 at 6:47 am

Till relatives seek accuser’s prosecution in 1955 kidnapping

Relatives of Emmett Till have been stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into his lynching in Mississippi in 1955.