A Coast Guard report says a passing tugboat helped spark the massive explosions that rocked the Mobile River and injured three people in April. A...
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State tourism officials say lodging revenue in Colbert and Lauderdale counties in 2012 was $1.1 million - up by about $30,000 from 2011. The...
06/17/2013 This week Don Reviews "The Bookman's Tale" by Charlie Lovett. Transcript and review to be posted soon.
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is offering food safety training to producers who sell at farmers markets. Officials say the goal is to...
Montgomery officials hope the heroics of American aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright will help boost the city's image. The famous brothers...
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Obama Would Veto House's Farm Bill, White House Says
President Obama will be advised to veto a multi-year farm bill slated to be discussed in the House this week, the White House says. The...
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Voting Rights Groups Get High Court Win As Bigger Case Looms
Advocates of tougher voter registration standards have racked up wins in recent years — voter ID laws have taken hold across the nation, for example...
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Sentenced To Death At 16, Indiana Woman Is Now Free
Paula Cooper, 43, left prison Monday morning, decades after she became America's youngest resident of death row at age 16. She had confessed to the...
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Dirty Spuds? Alleged Potato Cartel Accused Of Price Fixing
High-tech spying with satellites. Intimidation. Price fixing. Sound like the makings of a Hollywood thriller? These are actually among the...
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How Do You Teach The Civil Rights Movement?
Note: As part of NPR's series on the summer of 1963, reporter Cory Turner headed to Jackson, Miss. to take a look at how folks are teaching the Civil...
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