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News Articles: alabama

Shomari Figures, speaking here at the Democratic National Convention on August 22, 2024, would win Alabama's 2nd Congressional District to become the state's second Black elected U.S. House member. The federal courts redrew the state's congressional map after determining the Republican-controlled state legislature failed to create a new district in 2023 that would give Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.

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  • Law

Court rules Alabama redistricting intentionally discriminates against Black voters

A federal court says Alabama can't use a congressional map it found unconstitutional. The ruling comes in a voting rights case that resulted in the state getting a second Black member of Congress.

May 09, 2025
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  • Debbie Elliott
Alabama death row inmate Robin "Rocky" Myers was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP)

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  • National

Alabama governor commutes a death row inmate's sentence to life in prison

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin "Rocky" Myers to life in prison, saying there were enough questions about his guilt that she could not move forward with his execution.

March 01, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Michigan resident Beverly Leaf stands in solidarity with the mother of Demetrius Frazier as she pleads for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to bring him to Michigan to serve out a life sentence.

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  • Law

Alabama puts man to death in the nation's fourth execution using nitrogen gas

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life sentence in her state, which doesn't have the death penalty.

February 07, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action leads a demonstration outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, against a scheduled execution in Alabama using nitrogen gas.

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  • National

Alabama carries out nation's 3rd nitrogen gas execution

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden shortly before he was put to death Thursday evening in the nation's third execution using nitrogen gas.

November 22, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
This undated photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Derrick Dearman, who was executed by lethal injection in Alabama on Oct. 17, 2024.

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  • National

Alabama executes man who killed 5 and asked to be put to death

Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals and asked to be put to death.

October 18, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Jeff and Donna Standridge (right and middle) and Keith Lowhorne (right) are all raising their grandchildren. More than 2.5 million children in the U.S. are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other extended family members — when their parents are unable to care for them.

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  • Health

A new way to support grandparents raising kids affected by the addiction epidemic

A pilot program in Alabama will distribute $280,000 from opioid settlement funds to support ‘grandfamilies’ formed to raise kids affected by the opioid epidemic.

October 15, 2024
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  • Drew Hawkins
Lillie Cunningham celebrated her 110th birthday in Florence, Ala., in late September.

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  • National

At 110 years old, an Alabama woman credits one thing for her long life: faith

Lillie Cunningham recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She has lived through two pandemics and two world wars and is looking forward to voting in November's presidential election.

October 04, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
Georgia linebacker CJ Allen (3) sets up for a play against Alabama during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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  • News

Alabama-Georgia averages 12 million on ABC, most-watched regular-season prime-time game since 2017

Alabama's 41-34 victory over Georgia on Saturday night averaged 12 million viewers on ABC and ESPN's streaming platforms, according to Nielsen. It was the most-watched regular season prime-time game since 2017, when Alabama-Florida State on the season's opening weekend averaged 12.3 million.

October 02, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Alabama, Aug. 5, 1999.

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  • National

Alabama puts man to death in the country's second nitrogen gas execution

Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country.

September 26, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Drone captures the Phenix City Waste Water Treatment Plant, 1600 E. State Docks Road, Phenix City, AL, on 6/10/24. The plant is accused of violating the Clean Water Act and Alabama Water Pollution Control Act Henry Jacobs, CRK

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  • Environment

‘Time for Phenix City to step up.’ City sued twice over wastewater in Chattahoochee River

Phenix City is facing two lawsuits, one from the state of Alabama, over allegedly violating the Clean Water Act.

September 19, 2024
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  • Kala Hunter
Isaiah Brown comforts his younger brother Malachi after their power went down in the Polk Street neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2024 in Houma, Louisiana.

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  • National

Francine weakens as it moves inland after winds cause widespread blackouts

Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported in Louisiana and Mississippi early Thursday as residents in the region braced for possible flooding as Tropical Storm Francine moved inland.

September 12, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell,
  • Jonathan Franklin,
  • and 1 more
Lakethia Clark stands in her son's bedroom in her home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Clark will soon open her own home-based child care business.

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  • Business

To help the economy, an Alabama county is betting on home-based child care

A project in Alabama seeks to drastically grow the number of home-based child care options. It could help the state's workforce, especially during nontraditional hours.

June 21, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis speaks at Turner Chapel AME church Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Marietta, Ga. An Alabama man has pleaded guilty in federal court to leaving threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and the county sheriff last summer because of the pending indictment of former President Donald Trump.

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  • News

Alabama man pleads guilty to threatening Georgia prosecutor and sheriff over Trump election case

An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to leaving threatening phone messages for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a county sheriff last summer because of the pending indictment of former President Donald Trump.

June 20, 2024
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  • Associated Press
"Rickwood: The Soul of Birmingham" shares the story of the nation's oldest professional ballpark and its role in American history.

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  • Sports

Baseball's Negro Leagues to be honored in Alabama at the nation's oldest professional ballpark

As part of Juneteenth celebrations this week, Major League Baseball is honoring the Negro Leagues — African American professional baseball teams of the 1920s to 1940s — with several games at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, former home of the Black Barons.

June 19, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
A coalition of advocates call for full Medicaid expansion in Mississippi at a rally at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The gathering drew supporters from throughout the state representing religious, social and human service organizations, medical professionals and legislators.

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  • Health

Here's what's holding back Medicaid expansion in Mississippi and other Southern states

More than a million people could get health care if these states would pass laws expanding Medicaid. Most residents want the expansion but entrenched politics stands in the way.

May 17, 2024
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  • Drew Hawkins
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