Chris Ahlf
ReporterChris Ahlf is a student intern in the Alabama Public Radio Newsroom. He previously worked as an undergraduate student intern at Troy Public Radio. He is a graduate student in journalism with a Community Journalism focus. Outside of the newsroom Chris enjoys singing, playing the guitar, and watching a good movie.
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Police in Mississippi continue investigating the deaths of two students attending Ole Miss. Detectives The stimulant powder known as kratom were reportedly found at the locations of both fatalities. Investigators don't know if kratom contributed to either death, but the incidents have helped to put the drug back in the news. Alabama has listed kratom as a Schedule one controlled substance, the same league as heroin and opioids. -
Signs of the University of Alabama’s role in the Civil War are everywhere on campus. The President’s mansion is among the few buildings that survived being burned to the ground during Croxton’s Raid on April 4th in 1865. Washington Hall was a student dormitory that was lost to history—until recently. -
Alabama lawmakers are looking a bill that would ban vaping in indoor public spaces. The new Alabama bill is called SB-9. It would prevent the use of vapes and e-cigarettes in public spaces. The legislation expands on the Alabama Indoor Clean Air Act introduced in 2003. -
Some construction work on the University of Alabama has led to a real life lesson in archeology. UA students will spend the coming weeks analyzing artifacts they dug up at a site dating back to the Civil War. -
Opponents of human trafficking in Alabama and around the nation are pointing more and more to a video game called Roblox. Three families in the state are suing the makers of the game. They say predators tried to use it to gain access to their children.
