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News Articles: alabama

A copy of <em>The Birmingham News</em> rests on a rack at the downtown public library in Birmingham, Ala. The company that runs the newspaper and two sister papers says it will permanently stop print publication after Feb. 26, 2023.

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  • Media

For 3 big Alabama newspapers, the presses are grinding to a halt

The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and Mobile's Press-Register will soon go all-digital. In Birmingham, where people have been reading the paper since the late 1800s, the news hasn't been easy.

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott
Two regional utilities, Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light, hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix paid six news sites that attacked officials who challenged the companies.

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  • Media

In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

December 21, 2022
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By:
  • David Folkenflik,
  • Mario Ariza,
  • and 1 more
Antwon McGhee is one of about 500 Warrior Met Coal miners in Brookwood, Ala., who have been on strike for 20 months.

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  • Business

Alabama coal miners begin their 20th month on strike

The miners have survived more than 600 days on the picket line, thanks to widespread support and anger at their employer, Warrior Met Coal. Even now, neither side seems ready to budge.

December 01, 2022
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By:
  • Stephan Bisaha

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  • National

Alabama is pausing executions after a 3rd failed lethal injection

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.

November 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife.

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  • National

Alabama failed to complete an execution by lethal injection for a third time

The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.

November 19, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Republican state officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on which voters should be categorized as Black when testing whether a map of election districts dilutes the political power of Black voters.

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  • Elections

Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed

Republican officials in Louisiana are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set a narrower definition of "Black" for redistricting that excludes some Black people and could minimize their voting power.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Alan Eugene Miller is shown Aug. 5, 1999. Alabama officials called off the Thursday lethal injection of Miller because of time concerns and trouble accessing the inmate's veins.

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  • Law

Alabama calls off execution for time and medical concerns

Alabama corrections officials said the state halted the scheduled execution of Alan Miller after they determined they could not get the lethal injection underway before a midnight deadline.

September 23, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Ala., on Aug. 5, 1999. Miller, scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Sept. 22, 2022, for a workplace shooting rampage in 1999 that killed three men, says the state lost the paperwork he turned in selecting an alternate execution method.

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  • National

Alabama could use nitrogen hypoxia for executions in death sentences. What is it?

Alan Eugene Miller is scheduled for execution in Alabama on Sep. 22. He has asked for nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection due to a fear of needles, but claims officers lost his request.

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
This image captured from bodycam video released by the Childersburg (Ala.) Police Department and provided by attorney Harry Daniels shows Michael Jennings, left, in custody in Childersburg, Ala., on May 22. Jennings was helping out a friend by watering flowers when officers showed up and placed him under arrest within moments.

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  • National

A Black pastor sues the police who arrested him while watering his neighbors' flowers

The lawsuit names the city of Childersburg, Ala., which oversees the police department that arrested Jennings, as a defendant.

September 12, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
This is a screenshot of drone video captured in Summerville, Georgia that shows some of the damage to the community. Gov. Brian Kemp declared a State of Emergency in Chattooga and Floyd Counties over the Labor Day weekend.

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  • Weather

Flood threat continued in Georgia, other states over Labor Day weekend

Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend's storm was northwest Georgia.

September 06, 2022
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  • Associated Press
A longtime pastor at Vision of Abundant Life Church in Sylacauga, Ala., Pastor Michael Jennings recalls the moment the Childersburg Police Department arrived at his neighbor's house and arresting him while watering his out-of-town neighbor's flowers.

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  • National

Watering flowers while Black: A pastor shares his story of wrongful arrest

A Black pastor in Alabama says he was wrongfully arrested and charged with a crime while he was watering his neighbor's flowers, per their request. He shares his experience with NPR.

September 01, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Pastor Michael Jennings of Childersburg, Ala., says he was arrested and charged with a crime while watering his neighbor's flowers.

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  • National

A Black pastor was watering his neighbor's flowers. Then the police showed up

Attorneys representing Michael Jennings said the release of the body camera video will clear the way for "legal action against the officers and more."

August 30, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Diane Derzis, owner of the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., pauses as she gathers her thoughts at a news conference on her reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Friday, June 24, 2022. Derzis also owns a clinic in Columbus, Ga.

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  • Health

In Columbus, an abortion clinic is in high demand from other states with no access

Diane Derzis thought she was prepared for Roe v. Wade, and the constitutional right to an abortion, to be overturned. At clinics she owns across the South, she had, in fact, been preparing for months. 

“Then you get there and it’s like ‘Oh my God,’” Derzis said. 

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Church members console each other after a shooting at the Saint Stevens Episcopal Church on Thursday, June 16, 2022 in Vestavia, Ala.

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  • National

An attendee helped save lives in an Alabama church shooting

Police said church members were spared further violence Thursday evening when someone at the dinner subdued the gunman and held him until police arrived.

June 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Governor Kemp Speaks At Georgia GOP Convention on June 5, 2021

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  • Business

Kemp announcement expected to confirm $7B auto plant in Georgia

Governor Brian Kemp is heading to an industrial site outside Savannah to make what his office calls a "special economic development announcement." Sources in Washington and Georgia have told The Associated Press the project is a $7 billion plant where Hyundai Motor Group will manufacture electric vehicles.

May 20, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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