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An Alabama went into effect that requires public schools to provide changing rooms for students based on the sex on their birth certificates. This measure is one of over sixty that went into effect on Friday. Starting this school year, every student will have to use a the restroom or locker room designated to their biological sex.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is announcing a $1 billion dollar first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities. The goal is change road projects that resulted in racially segregated or divided neighborhoods that were created by road projects. Buttigieg is pledging wide-ranging help to dozens of communities despite the program's limited dollars. Alabama has been criticized for this in the past.
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There will be extra fireworks in Tuscaloosa this Fourth of July.
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The city of Gulf Shores is holding a public meeting for its upcoming beach nourishment project. The meeting is at six tonight at the Gulf Shores City Council Chambers. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Orange Beach representatives and coastal engineers will answer questions about the project.
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Alabama Public Radio is celebrating forty years on the air in 2022. The APR news team is diving into our archives to bring you encore airings of the best of our coverage. That includes this story from 2020. APR student intern Sydney Melson produced this feature on so called “segregation academies” in Alabama. Here’s thaty story from the APR archives
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The family of a former U.S. soldier from Tuscaloosa being held captive in Ukraine says he’s made contact. A release from the family of Alex Drueke says he was able to send a direct communication to his family over the weekend. Drueke’s captors reportedly reached the U.S. State Department by telephone and allowed him to speak.
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Monday marks the start of the first full week since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Roe Versus Wade decision legalizing abortion. A Montgomery federal judge also just removed an injunction to a 2019 Alabama law that makes abortions a felony. The West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa provided fifty percent of the procedures in the state. The clinic says one hundred patients have already been turned away.
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A Montgomery federal judge lifted an injunction against Alabama’s 2019 Human Life Protection Act, officially making abortions a felony in the state. Judge Myron Thompson order states that the legal argument against Alabama’s ban no longer exists following action by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Roe Versus Wade decision that gave constitutional protections to women seeking end their pregnancies.
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After the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, hundreds of children from the affected areas dealt with multiple health issues caused by radiation from the nuclear meltdown. A few years later, families from all across Alabama housed many of those same children for a summer to give them access to better healthcare and a reprieve from the radiation.
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Summer can be a fun time for all of us, but the high temperatures can put our furry friends at serious risk.
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A lot of the focus in Alabama, following the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe V, Wade, has centered on the state’s 2019 Human Life Protection act. The measure would make it a felony to conduct an abortion in Alabama. The law is under a current court injunction, but the state’s Attorney General could reportedly take action to reinstate it. That apparently isn’t what’s really concerning abortion providers and their patients in Alabama.
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U.S. Supreme Court action to end Roe Versus Wade is leaving questions on what’s next for Alabama? The justices voted six to three to strike down constitutional protections for a woman’s right to choose. Alabama doesn’t have a so called trigger law on Abortion, there is the 2019 Human Life Protection act
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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, which had provided legal protection of the federal right to abortion. Alabama Public Radio has been covering the issue and how it will affect the state.
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The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years. The decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. Friday's outcome overturning Roe v. Wade is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
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Thrive Alabama will launch a festival to promote HIV testing and awareness.
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The city of Gulf Shores is holding its first hurricane expo since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Today’s free event is meant to educate local residents on how to prepare for what may be an above average hurricane season. Past storms left widespread damage along the Alabama coast and deaths as far north as Tuscaloosa
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The 44th annual Helen Keller Festival is welcoming back residents and visitors later this month.
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The family of a Tuscaloosa man reportedly captured in Ukraine while fighting with Kyiv’s military is speaking out.
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