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A pilot from Alabama had just been promoted to major in January and had been deployed less than a week when the refueling aircraft he was aboard crashed in Iraq this week, killing him and five others.
Alabama Public Radio is proud to share the work of local artist Abi Brewer, who created an original painting exclusively for the station. Views of Home is what Abi calls "a love letter to Alabama." The painting celebrates the different flora, fauna and landscapes of the Yellowhammer State.
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Your furry friend may have been enjoying the pleasant spring weather, but oops - here comes cold weather again! -
In this episode of Alabama Out Loud, Aydan Conchin explores the history of St. Patrick’s Day while sharing favorite ways to celebrate the holiday between Huntsville and Tuscaloosa. -
In today's episode of Simplified, Lacey has a great time chatting with Grayson Glaze, a professor of real estate at the University of South Alabama. He also serves as the program director for the real estate degree program at USA. Grayson answers questions about real estate law, the buying/selling process, and everything in between. -
Governor Kay Ivey is commuting the sentence of Alabama death row inmate Charles “Sonny” Burton. He had spent the last thirty years awaiting execution for the 1991 killing of Doug Battle at a Talladega AutoZone store. Burton’s case attracted national attention since he did not pull the trigger. Prosecutors charged him under what’s known as felony murder. That law makes a convicted offender as guilty as the person who committed the killing. -
This week on StoryCorps, Annie Pearl Avery is back to talk about a dangerous encounter she had when she and her friends got lost on the way home from a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee conference in Georgia. -
The Falcons are giving a former starting quarterback a test drive.ESPN reports the team plans to sign Tua Tagovailoa to a one-year deal when free agency officially begins on Wednesday.Michael Penix Jr. is recovering from a knee injury and could miss Week One. -
Minnesota Vikings center Ryan Kelly has retired after a concussion-marred final season in his 10-year NFL career. Kelly played in only eight games in his lone season with the Vikings. He helped the Crimson Tide win three national titles. -
Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the future of the Voting Rights Act. The March 7, 1965, violence that became known as Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped spur passage of the landmark legislation that dismantled barriers to voting for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. -
Charles Burton has spent 30 years on death row at William C. Holman Correctional Facility, the site of the state's execution chamber.Burton's death sentence is the result of a legal doctrine known as felony murder, which allows prosecutors to treat anyone involved in certain felonies equally responsible for a killing that occurs during the crime. -
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The phrase that helps us remember how to set our clocks for daylight savings time ("spring forward, fall back") doesn't help our furry friends understand why we are suddenly a little bit off when it comes to taking care of them! -
Motorists in Alabama continue to face more pain at the gas pump as U.S. military action against Iran enters its first week. The website of Alabama Triple-A says the cost of a gallon of regular gasoline is $2.98. That’s about a thirty cent jump over the past week.
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"Simplified" is an interview-style show where Morning Edition host Lacey Alexander takes complex topics and breaks them down so that everyone can better understand them. She enlists a new academic in the state of Alabama every week to simplify a big idea-- whether it's science, economics, media or anything in between.
Sports Minded podcast with host Brittany Young features interviews with coaches, athletes and sports personnel. Insight, commentary and analysis on professional, collegiate and high school sports can be heard here.
Speaking of Pets with host Mindy Norton is a commentary for people who care about pets and want to celebrate that special relationship between humans and animal companions.
Quick-Fire Quips is centered around people who stand out in Alabama. Host Baillee Majors presents guests with a questionnaire of playful personal questions and questions about the Yellowhammer State.
Alabama is known for football and white barbecue sauce. But we’re also making our mark in science, literature and the arts—and we helped put astronauts on the moon! Join APR news director Pat Duggins as he takes up topics like this with interviews on APR Notebook.
Dr. Don Noble, specializing in Southern and American literature, gives his weekly review on the work of Alabama’s finest authors.
StoryCorps episodes show a candid, unscripted conversation between two people about love, loss, family, friendship and everything else in between. These stories are from Selma, where APR recently hosted the Airstream portable studio.
Host Cam Marston brings fun weekly commentaries on generational and demographic trends to provide new ways to interpret the changing world around us.
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In this episode of Alabama Out Loud, Aydan Conchin explores how the arrival of daylight saving time and longer days signal the early rhythms of spring across the Yellowhammer State — from outdoor spaces and free cultural sites to seasonal routines returning statewide. -
Thousands of marchers from around the nation are gathered in Selma, Alabama for this weekend's 61st annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. This year's celebration will pay special tribute to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed away last month at the age of 84. -
On this week's Keepin' It Real, Cam Marston considers the use of AI and how it could theoretically enhance his business. -
Clocks will skip ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday for daylight saving time in most of the U.S. Alabama GOP Congressman Mike Rogers who introduces such a bill every term, said the airline industry, which doesn't want the scheduling complexity a change would bring, has been a factor in persuading lawmakers not to take it up. -
People move to rural Baldwin County for nature and a slower pace. But that same open land is attracting large-scale energy projects tied to data centers. One in particular is raising questions about growth and who makes land-use decisions in rural Alabama. -
The campus of the now-defunct Birmingham Southern College is being purchased by the U.S. Coast Guard. In a written statement, the Coast Guard said one of the reasons the historic campus was selected is its capacity to accommodate more than 12-hundred recruits. The repurposing of the college campus is also expected to create about one-thousand jobs. -
Published reports say Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is offering help to countries in the Middle East when it comes to defending against Iranian drones. An Alabama U.S. Army veteran, who volunteered to help the Ukrainian military, says they’re good at that type of warfare. -
A Texas judge is hearing evidence Wednesday on whether Camp Mystic, the all-girls youth camp where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year, should remain closed while a lawsuit filed by one of the girls’ families is pending. The flood also killed eight year old Sarah Marsh of Mountain Brook, Alabama. -
In this edition of APR Notebook— I became news director at Alabama Public Radio in September of 2009. One of my first stories involved James Beard award-winning chef Frank Stitt of Birmingham. It was prompted by this, arguably the worst oil spill in American history. -
The website of Alabama Triple-A says the price at the pump may already be showing signs of what’s to come. The cost of a gallon of regular gasoline in the state jumped by ten cents between Monday and yesterday.
