Pat Duggins
News DirectorPat Duggins is APR’s news director. As a kid, he watched the Apollo manned moon launches along Florida’s space coast. Pat later spent 14 years covering NASA for NPR. After re-organizing the APR newsroom, he and the team were honored with over 150 awards for excellence in journalism. That includes APR being the first radio newsroom to receive RFK Human Rights’ “Seigenthaler Prize for Courage in Journalism.” Pat holds a master’s degree from the University of Alabama and has published two books on NASA. When he’s not at APR, he enjoys cooking with Lucia, and tending his beloved fig tree.
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Georgia was voted number one in The Associated Press Top 25 for the second time this season Sunday, unbeaten UCLA matched its highest ranking in 25 years and Ohio State's free fall continued after a wild weekend that followed the first College Football Playoff rankings of the year. Alabama moved up after soundly defeating LSU. -
Sportswriters said tonight's game at Death Valley was a must win for either two loss Alabama, or two loss LSU. The winner would play on for a shot the College Football Playoff, and the loser would see their percentage chance of a post season chance at the title all but ended. -
Number 9 ranked Alabama expects to have standout receiver Ryan Coleman-Williams back after he missed the last two games. Coleman-Williams and two other starters were listed as probable for the team’s game at No. 15 LSU on Saturday. -
Amari Allen had 16 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists for the fifth triple-double in program history as No. 20 Alabama beat Arkansas State 101-86 on Friday night. -
Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 8 when she was part of the crowd of civil rights marchers attacked on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, months before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. On Tuesday night, she stood in Montgomery, Alabama, to celebrate a resounding political victory for Black voters and others who refused to accept the law’s recent diminishing by the U.S.Supreme Court and several state legislatures across the South. -
Midseason stumbles by No. 9 Alabama and 15th-ranked LSU briefly threatened to lower the gravity of what will be the last of 64 annual matchups on Saturday. The Crimson Tide and Tigers have since rebounded with convincing victories to again set the stage for another memorable, early November tilt that even First Lady Melania Trump is scheduled to attend. -
California Governor Gavin Newsom said he would commute hundreds of death sentences before leaving office. Alabama, Florida, and Indiana all carried out executions Thursday. -
Michael Taylor faces execution in Alabama, 35 years after fatally beating an older couple with a metal bar during a robbery in their Gadsden home. Police arrested the 19-year-old Taylor with the victims' Cadillac, an hour away in Birmingham. The execution would be the state's third this year. Alabama’s scheduled execution is the one of three nationally today. One death sentence in Indiana was carried out this morning. -
It’s been a confusing college football season so far. Nobody felt that more deeply than the College Football Playoff selection committee, which raised eyebrows aplenty in its first attempt of the season to make sense of it all. At number five, was Alabama — eight spots ahead of Tennessee, even though the Tide is only a few weeks removed from a 16-point loss to the Vols. At No. 6 was Kentucky, followed by Texas. -
At the urging of President Donald Trump, Republicans in eight states redrew the boundaries of dozens of congressional districts over the past year while angling for an edge that could help them hold onto a slim House majority in a tough midterm election.Ultimately, it didn't work. In Alabama, a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Republican-led Legislature to revert to what the GOP considered to be a friendlier map. But Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures won reelection anyway, defying Republicans' plans.
