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Georgia QB Stetson Bennett kisses college football Championship trophy

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Georgia snaps 41-year title drought with 33-18 win over Alabama

Stetson Bennett delivered the biggest throws of his storybook career and Georgia’s defense sealed the sweetest victory in program history, vanquishing rival Alabama 33-18 to win the Bulldogs' first college football title since the 1980 season. 

January 11, 2022
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Dayton Hall, left, and Jackson Mountjoy use calipers to measure a baby oyster at the school's oyster garden in Bay St. Louis, Miss. The school is among more than 50 locations in Mississippi and more than 1,000 nationwide where people raise oysters to help build reefs off their states' coasts.

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  • Environment

Volunteers are growing oyster gardens to help restore reefs

There are more than 1,000 oyster gardens in the coastal waters of Maryland, Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama as volunteers try to restore a keystone of coastal ecosystems.

December 15, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
New Orleans Saints defensive end Glenn Foster Jr. greets fans before an NFL preseason game against Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 in Miami Gardens, Fla. Foster died on Monday while in police custody.

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Ex-New Orleans Saints player Glenn Foster Jr. dies in police custody

State officials in Alabama are investigating the death of former NFL defensive end Glenn Foster Jr., who died in police custody Monday.

December 08, 2021
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  • Nell Clark
FedEx trucks are parked at a FedEx Ship Center on September 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. FedEx says the driver who dumped packages into an Alabama ravine at least six times is no longer with the company.

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  • National

Authorities say a FedEx driver dumped hundreds of packages into an Alabama ravine

The Blount County Sheriff's Office said the unnamed driver dumped packages into a wooded area at least six times, leaving some 450 people without their deliveries.

December 01, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
The Amazon warehouse at the center of a high-profile unionization drive is seen on March 29 in Bessemer, Ala.

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  • Business

Amazon warehouse workers get to re-do their union vote in Alabama

A federal labor official has ordered a revote in the biggest Amazon union election in the U.S. The agency found the company's anti-union tactics tainted the original vote that rejected unionizing.

November 30, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Christina Nance was found dead by police after being in a van for five days after she was reported missing by her family. Now, her family is calling for an investigation into her death.

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  • National

A missing Alabama woman's body is found in a parked, unoccupied police van

Christina Nance had been missing since Sept. 25, her family says. Video footage from that day shows her entering the van, which was in a police parking lot. Her body was found 12 days later.

October 19, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Dr. Scott Harris, Alabama's state health officer, discusses his state's vaccination data on June 29 in Montgomery, Ala. He said last week that the state saw more deaths than births in 2020 for the first time in more than a century.

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  • National

There Were More Deaths Than Births In Alabama Last Year, A Grim First For The State

Alabama's top health official says the state has "literally shrunk." According to preliminary data, it saw 64,714 total deaths and 57,641 births in 2020.

September 20, 2021
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  • Nell Clark
A medical worker tests a person for COVID-19 last month in Mobile, Ala. A surge of coronavirus cases in the state has stretched hospital ICUs to capacity, making it difficult for patients with other conditions to find ICU beds.

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A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says

Ray DeMonia didn't die from COVID-19, but after the 73-year-old experienced a cardiac emergency, he was turned away from dozens of packed ICUs, his family says.

September 14, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Clinicians care for COVID-19 patients in a converted negative pressure room in the intensive care unit at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital on Aug. 10 in Lake Charles, La. The floor has been converted into an ICU strictly for COVID-19 patients.

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  • Health

Alabama Hospitals Have Run Out Of ICU Beds As COVID-19 Cases Surge

There are 29 more patients than there are open ICU beds as of Wednesday. The recent run, reminiscent of early in the pandemic, is occurring largely in states with the lowest vaccination rates.

August 19, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
Signs reading "vote" hang outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., in March as workers wrapped up their seven-week mail-in election on whether to unionize.

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  • Business

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama May Get To Vote Again On Union

A federal labor official found that Amazon's anti-union tactics may have tainted last spring's voting process sufficiently to scrap its results. Workers had rejected unionization more than 2-to-1.

August 03, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Stephan Bisaha
The new law will allow Alabama public schools to offer yoga for students. Here, kids participate in a yoga class in Pennsylvania.

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  • Education

Alabama Will Now Allow Yoga In Its Public Schools (But Students Can't Say 'Namaste')

Alabama banned yoga back in 1993. The ban is now revoked — but English names must be used for all poses and exercises. And meditation is not allowed.

May 21, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
Workers at Amazon's facility in Bessemer, Ala., held a historic vote on whether to form the company's first warehouse union.

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  • Business

It's A No: Amazon Warehouse Workers Vote Against Unionizing In Historic Election

Amazon avoided the prospect of a first unionized warehouse in America, where it's now the second-largest private employer. The vote in Alabama had prompted new interest in unions across the country.

April 09, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Vote tally is underway in a historic union election at Amazon's warehouse in Alabama.

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  • Business

Amazon Union Election: 'No' Votes Outnumber 'Yes' Votes At End Of 1st Day Of Counting

Hand counting will continue on Friday. So far, more than two-thirds of the tallied votes are against unionizing.

April 08, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
A banner encourages workers to vote in a union election at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala.

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  • Business

Why Is The Amazon Union Vote Count Taking So Long?

It's a really large mail-in election. (Yes, this one, too.) The tally of yes and no votes has finally begun.

April 08, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Shanaye Poole (left) next to her father, Toforest Johnson, during a family visit to see him in prison in the early 2000s.

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  • National

New Eyes On Alabama Death Row Case After Integrity Review Raises Questions

Former prosecutors and judges say Toforest Johnson's murder conviction was based on shaky evidence. The case is getting a new look as district attorneys review the integrity of past prosecutions.

April 05, 2021
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  • Debbie Elliott
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