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The U.S. Army temporarily halted all Apache helicopter training missions Friday after a fatal crash in Texas earlier this week killed two soldiers. No cause of the Wednesday crash has been released because the investigation has just begun. A safety investigation team from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama, is trying to determine what happened, the Army said.
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This weekend's temperatures may hit record highs, which can make it difficult for our furry friends to stay comfortable (or safe)! -
On this week's Keepin' It Real, It's August in Alabama, which means two things: the air conditioner is running non-stop, and somewhere in a house near you, a married couple is fighting over the thermostat. Cam is losing that fight. -
Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S. A man in Tennessee faces execution for killing a motel maid. An Oklahoma man is scheduled to die for killing his girlfriend. And an Alabama man will be put to death after dropping all his appeals in the killing of a 5-year-old girl he paid her mother to abuse. -
Democratic U.S. House member Shomari Figures will face a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump in his fight for reelection to an Alabama congressional seat the GOP redrew as part of a larger effort to help the party keep control of the U.S. House. He will be running against state Rep. Rhett Marques, who won the GOP nomination for the 2nd Congressional District in Tuesday's special primary election. Figures was unopposed. -
Voters in four of Alabama’s seven congressional districts will select U.S. House nominees Tuesday under a new map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts currently represented by Democrats.Primaries for all seven congressional districts were originally scheduled for May 19, but Republican Governor Kay Ivey postponed the contests for the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th Congressional Districts. -
School is getting underway this week in the city of Birmingham as well as Mobile, Baldwin, and Montgomery Counties. Healthcare providers say measles shots should be on the list of things to do along with books, pencils, and erasers. -
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Former Florida Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is in custody again just over a month after his initial arrest in July. Court documents show the judge in Gillam’s case ordered him taken to the Mobile County jail after he missed a drug screening. The former candidate also tested positive for methamphetamine in a drug court appearance. -
International Cat Day is August 8th, a time to raid awareness about cat ownership and care - and atime to encourage adoption and proper care for our feline friends! -
On this week’s Keepin' It Real, Cam Marston insists there's nothing going on between him and his favorite AI..., which is exactly what a man in love would say.
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The Detroit Lions have agreed to a contract extension with a former member of the Crimson Tide— three-year deal worth up to $75.7 million that his agents say makes him the NFL’s newest highest-paid running back. -
The Riverwalk Market in Tuscaloosa was awash in Crimson and White earlier this week. Fans of the Alabama football team showed up for a pre-season prep rally to rev up the fan base as the season opener against East Carolina draws near. One mainstay of these Crimson Tide events is a student chosen to wear a familiar costume. Here's a story of Alabama’s Big Al, and the big impact he has during good times and the one that was more challenging
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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.
Coffee & History brings you weekly conversations with fascinating figures in the historical community. Each Sunday morning, Rebecca Todd Minder, Susan E. Reynolds and Caroline Gazzara-McKenzie, explore and share the stories that shape Alabama.
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2026 has been a busy year for NASA. Four astronauts flew to the moon for the first trip there by human beings there since Apollo 17 in 1972. The flight of Artemis two also highlights Alabama's role in the US space program. The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville designed, built, tested, and manages the big Space Launch System rocket that sends Artemis missions to Earth orbit. Huntsville has its claim to fame when it comes to NASA, but Opelika does too. One of its favorite sons is retired astronaut Jim Voss. He flew four times on the space shuttle and served on the second full-time crew aboard the International Space Station. A conversation that's out of this world, is next on APR Notebook. -
U.S. News and World Report named hospitals nationally for a list of specialties as well as those that were high performing on a state by state basis. One Alabama is ranked number eleven in the U.S. for rheumatology and number forty eight for obstetrics and gynecology. It was the only facility in the state to gain national recognition, and also ranked as the best hospital in Alabama -
The latest number of cyclospora cases, from the Alabama Department of Public Health, is 85 (updated) plus two hospitalizations. This new data was followed by news of two fatalities in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday. -
This week, Don reviews Loving My Enemies & Other Outlandish Pursuits by Angie Wright. -
What is your pet's birthday? Most of us don't know because we got our furry friend from a shelter, or maybe from the side of the road, and that information was not available. You can choose to join many of us by celebrating your pet's birthday on DOGust 1st - the first day of August! -
A TSA agent discovered a set of stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger's suitcase during a routine security screening at an Alabama airport earlier this month, -
Preliminary testing showed the bullets that killed two bystanders during a shootout at a crowded Seattle food festival last weekend didn’t come from the gun a 15-year-old arrested at the scene was seen firing. That finding was in court documents from police. One of the fatalities was Ashley Whitehead, who had just moved to the Seattle area from Alabama a year ago. -
An upcoming show may be good for bird watchers, but not for neighborhood bugs. The annual black belt birding festival starts tomorrow, and that includes mowing day at the Joe Family Farm. Tractors stir up the hay, and that sends insects into the air. The goal is to attract birds like scissor-tailed flycatchers or Mississippi kites to swoop down for a snack. Here’s more on the annual event and the people who show up with binoculars in hand. -
Police say the 15-year-old arrested after a shootout at a food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend was armed with a ghost gun with an extended magazine. The attack killed Ashley Whitehead, an Alabama woman who moved to the Pacific Northwest a year ago. -
There were at least three suspects involved in a shootout at a crowded food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle over the weekend. One of them was among those killed in the violence. Another fatality had just moved to Washington from Alabama a year ago
