The Associated Press
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Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats says suspended guard Aden Holloway has a scholarship awaiting for him...depending on the outcome of his marijuana case,
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere, striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana and opening the door for more redistricting across the country that could aid Republican efforts to control the House. Here in Alabama, the decision could decide the fate of the newly created District 2 seat, currently occupied by Democrat Shomari Figures. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are speaking out on the issue.
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The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than half a century in a case concerning a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana. Back in 2023, the high court ordered Alabama, in Allen v. Milligan, to draw a second district where Black voters had a fair chance to elect their preferred representative. Today’s ruling may remove that criteria, possibly enabling Alabama’s Republican majority to redraw the map.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center told a federal court that law enforcement agencies have long known that the nonprofit paid informants to report on the movements of hate groups, rejecting assertions by the Trump administration that the nonprofit steered money to the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups without the knowledge of authorities.
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A former defensive tackle at the University of Alabama pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding investors of millions of dollars by putting on makeup and wigs to impersonate NFL players.
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It was fifteen years ago today when Alabama was the hardest-hit state in the historic "Super Outbreak.” NASA’s Earthdata website says the state endured sixty two tornadoes in eighteen hours, resulting in over two hundred and fifty deaths, and fifteen hundred injuries, and one and half billion dollar in damage.
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Today marks four decades since what’s called the world’s worst nuclear plant disaster—Chernobyl. APR news, in collaboration with the University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television, covered how the accident impacted one central Alabama family.
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The Cowboys took more defensive players in the fourth round of the NFL Draft, including Former Alabama edge rusher LT Overton with the 137th pick. Ten members of the Crimson Tide were selected this year. The University of Alabama says the ties the record for ten most productive football programs.
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Sean McVay says he was thrilled when the Los Angeles Rams drafted Ty Simpson — and anybody who thought the pick created a rift with general manager Les Snead doesn't know their partnership very well.
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Pulitzer prize winning AP photographer, who captured a key moment of civil rights history in Alabama, has died. Jack Thornell’s family confirmed his death at a hospital in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie from complications from kidney disease.