Choosing the right gift for someone is important, but sometimes we need to let the recipient have a say in the gift they get - especially when it's a pet!

That “pins and needles” feeling for fans of the Crimson Tide may not end with today’s SEC Championship against Georgia at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta. On Sunday, the teams who will compete in the playoff games for a shot at the championship will be announced. The world of college football is also remembering the man who that system going.

So, what did you do today? Jimmy Wales of Huntsville invented Wikipedia. How's that for a mic drop moment? The online encyclopedia, which is updated by anonymous editors, has its critics. Elon Musk counts himself among them. Authoritarian regimes reportedly hate Wikipedia. However, the website has viewers, a lot of them. By some accounts, billions of people visit Wikipedia, both the English version and in 300 other foreign languages. That's billions with a “B” every month. Jimmy Wales is also out with his first book. It's called "The "Seven Rules of Trust." We'll discuss how that's the philosophy behind Wikipedia. Wales also grew up in Huntsville, in the shadow of the Apollo man moon landings.

After number three ranked Georgia closed an 11-1 regular season with its eighth straight win over Georgia Tech last week, coach Kirby Smart was asked about his senior class dominating its top rivals through four seasons. Smart replied with a reminder that Georgia Tech, Florida, Auburn and Tennessee do not form a complete list of the Bulldogs' biggest rivals. Tuscaloosa, for instance.

For years, the 1997 killing of a young woman found in a Long Island, New York state park — her body dismembered, left unidentifiable beyond a tattoo of a peach — seemed destined to remain unsolved. The victim has been identified, and an arrest made,

On this week's Keepin' It Real, Cam has had some rebellion enter his home. Strangely, he says, it's not nearly as bad as he had thought.

Family and advocates of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons said they want to keep a public spotlight on problems in state lockups and said inmates are planning another work stoppage to protest conditions. Conditions in Alabama’s prisons inspired a documentary called “The Alabama Solution” whose directors talked with APR news about their groundbreaking film featuring cell phone footage taken by inmates.

My guest tonight on APR notebook is Jimmy Wales. He's from Huntsville, and he created Wikipedia. No, I'm not kidding. Okay, raise your hand if you've ever been to this online encyclopedia. If your hand didn't go up, it's okay, but it's a fair bet you're in the minority. Published reports put the number of people who visit Wikipedia, the one in English and the 300 other foreign language editions in the billions every month. That's billions with a B.

An estimated half million Alabamians get their healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Enhanced premium tax credits associated with ACA are set to expire at the end of this year. They’ve been at the center of recent tensions in Congress, with Democrats calling for a straight extension and several Republican lawmakers vehemently opposed to the idea.

Rosa Parks is often called the mother of the modern day civil rights movement. Her refusal to stand up on a city bus so a white man could sit down sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the movement that ended segregation on public buses in Alabama's capitol city. APR takes a deeper look at Parks life and the act of defiance that came at great personal cost to the civil rights icon.