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Organizers of protests against Donald Trump say close to two thousand demonstrations are planned tomorrow. That’s the day a military parade is scheduled in Washington, D.C. Protests are planned in Mobile and Montgomery as well as in Tuscaloosa.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. U.S. officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler and that a new name is expected this month.

Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Mobile, Alabama native Alexis Herman, the first Black U.S. Secretary of Labor and a fierce advocate for workplace equality. She died last week at the age of 77.

Rail passengers can soon buy tickets to ride Amtrak between Mobile and New Orleans. The service announced the resumption of travel between the two cities for the first time since Hurricane Katrina halted Amtrak’s route along the Alabama Gulf coast back in August of 2005.

A Mobile, Alabama woman and toddler whose remains were discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from the victims of Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach killings. The two were identified Wednesday as a U.S. Army veteran from Alabama and her daughter.

Residents along the Alabama Gulf coast could see something they reportedly haven’t seen in seven years. There’s an eighty five percent chance of snow today. The Gulf coast got a taste of winter weather back in late 2017 and early 2018. That was a tenth of inch. Some forecasts put today’s snowfall at possibly two to five inches.

UPDATE— click here for details from the Baldwin, Washington, and Escambia County School systemsYou might call it Alabama’s arctic weather “round two.” Temperatures on Monday morning are expected in the mid-teens with wind chills in the single digits. The Gulf coast is bracing for a near one hundred percent of snow on Tuesday.

Mobile and Birmingham rank among the worst in a new study on most relaxed cities in the United States. The landscaping company LawnStarter commissioned the report on 500 municipalities and ranked them based on eight issues like mental stress, hours on the job, and drug and cigarette use.

A bridge over Interstate 10 in Mobile will be among the aging structures in sixteen states that will be replaced or improved with the help of $5 billion in federal grants announced by President Joe Biden's administration, the latest beneficiaries of a massive infrastructure law.

The hot, steamy, months of July and August are peak mosquito season on the Gulf Coast. The Mobile County Public Health Department is preparing for this battle of the bugs by bringing in a new batch of recruits to help out. They’re not human foot soldiers but sentinel chickens. This APR story was made possible by a grant from the Caring Foundation.