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Demonstrators in Tuscaloosa carried signs reading “War is not a game,” “No Kings—No Immunity from Accountability,” and “Justice for All.”These marchers joined protesters in twenty other Alabama cities during what’s called the largest “No Kings” march event, which went international with protests in France and Italy.

Mobile, Birmingham, Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa are among the Alabama communities where demonstrators will carry signs against the Trump administration. Millions of Americans are expected to protest in cities across the U.S. on Saturday in the latest round of "No Kings" rallies.According to the event website, protests are planned in more than three-thousand locations, including in Minneapolis, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

It looks like Alabama cities like Tuscaloosa and Mobile may be getting a larger share of state internet sales taxes. Mayors Walt Maddox and Spiro Cheriogatis are among the city leaders who are dropping a class action lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Revenue has been dropped.

Charitable groups and local municipalities across Alabama are opening warming stations as temperatures plunge to the upper teens with wind chills near zero degrees. About 240 million people were under cold weather advisories and winter storm warnings Saturday as a powerful system threatened to bring howling winds, flooding and heavy snow to the East Coast — including blizzardlike conditions stemming from a “bomb cyclone” in the Southeast.

A retired Army veteran pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 1997 killing of an Alabama woman whose remains were found near the victims of Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach killings. Andrew Dykes, who had also served as a Tennessee state trooper and a corrections officer, was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Tanya Denise Jackson, a fellow military veteran with whom he had a child outside of his marriage, according to prosecutors on Long Island.

For years, the 1997 killing of a young woman found in a Long Island, New York state park — her body dismembered, left unidentifiable beyond a tattoo of a peach — seemed destined to remain unsolved. The victim has been identified, and an arrest made,

Up to fifteen Alabama cities will take part in tomorrow’s national “no kings” protests. Demonstrators in Mobile, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Florence and Birmingham will be among those expected to march and carry signs against the actions of the Trump Administration.

An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant work forces.

After coming in second in August’s general election, former judge Spiro Cheriogotis narrowly defeated opponent State Rep. Barbara Drummond in the runoff to become Mobile’s 109th mayor.

2005’s Hurricane Katrina killed 238 people in Mississippi and left only concrete slabs in many areas. With beachfront rebuilding crawling along a decade later, Gulfport began offering property tax breaks to those who built near the water. When it comes to rebuilding with hurricane fortified codes, Alabama is credited with leading the nation.