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The city of Mobile has named Dr. Charlotte Pence, award winning poet, author and University of South Alabama professor, as its inaugural poet laureate.
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A Gulf Coast Environmental Group says Alabama Power’s recent announcement to recycle coal ash into cement won’t put an end to its work. The Coal Ash Action Group, featured in APR’s investigative report “Bad Chemistry,” says it will stay vigilant as long as it believes Mobile Bay is at risk.
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Alabama is one of the hardest places to keep your New Year’s resolutions, according to WalletHub’s Best & Worst Cities for Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions. Researchers looked into more than 180 cities across the country comparing things like access to healthy-food stores, job opportunities and local restaurants.
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The Mobile based health organization known as The Helios Alliance is partnering with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. The goal of the partnership is to create a comprehensive approach to prevention, treatment, education, and recovery for those addicted to opioids.
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Alabama Public Radio reported last year on the Magnolia Breeze Youth Ensemble. The all-inclusive therapeutic band plays in Mardi Gras parades in the Mobile area. Here’s a follow-up...
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Lana Del Rey, Renee Rapp, hemlocke springs and more are making their debut at the iconic Gulf Shores music festival this year. Hangout Music Festival organizers say anyone looking to “hang out” in 2024 needs to grab tickets or a pass now as they are going quickly.
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The Republican Party in Mobile County is holding a candidates’ forum today. That includes two sitting Congressmen fighting for the same seat. Republican lawmakers Jerry Carl and Barry Moore both want the GOP nomination for Alabama’s District one seat in Congress. This fight was prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that forced Alabama to create the new Black Majority District Two slot in Congress.
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A high impact weather system blew through central and southern Alabama overnight, prompting tornado warnings for Mobile and Baldwin Counties, heavy winds due to squall lines, and one of the two heaviest power outages nationally according to poweroutage.us.
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The countdown to Mardi Gras begins in New Orleans as Carnival season kicks off with dozens of costumed revelers and a brass band set to crowd onto a streetcar for a nighttime ride down historic St. Charles Avenue. Meanwhile, a walking club in the French Quarter will march in its annual procession honoring Joan of Arc. Dauphin Island’s Krewe de la Dauphine parade is this coming Saturday.
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Some of Alabama’s biggest cities are among the worst spots for singles. That’s according to the financial website WalletHub. Analysts looked into 182 areas for the Best & Worst Cities for Singles (2024) report.