JAY REEVES

FILE – In this file photo taken June 12, 2010, crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washes ashore in Orange Beach, Ala. The spring of coronavirus feels a lot like the summer of oil to residents along the Gulf Coast. Bars and restaurants are empty in Florida because of an invisible threat nearly a decade after the BP oil spill ravaged the region from the ocean floor up, and condominium reservations have taken a nosedive in Alabama. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File) AX603 AX603

March 22, 2020 at 5:16 am

Coronavirus rekindles oil spill memories along Gulf Coast VIEW

The spring of the coronavirus feels a lot like the summer of oil to residents along the Gulf Coast. Bars and restaurants are empty in...

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March 10, 2020 at 2:27 pm

Alabama to exhibit artifacts from last US slave ship

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama will provide artifacts from the last slave ship to dock in the United States for a special...

March 1, 2020 at 8:16 am

Biden warmly welcomed in Selma as Dems court black voters VIEW

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Joe Biden received a warm reception Sunday in this crucible of the civil rights movement as he and other Democratic presidential...

February 14, 2020 at 1:51 pm

Mississippi residents fleeing floods after torrential rains VIEW

RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — Trash cans and ducks floated through a neighborhood along a rain-swollen river in Mississippi on Friday as residents packed up what...

February 11, 2020 at 6:57 am

Hill collapses, roads flooded, dam eroded by Southern rains VIEW

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A Tennessee hillside collapsed, roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Southeast on Tuesday after a day of heavy...

February 6, 2020 at 4:46 am