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Mexico's seizure of the Caribbean coast port stretched into its second week Tuesday. Alabama-based company Vulcan Materials says police and prosecutors still have not presented any legal paperwork to justify the seizure.

Alabama Public Radio is diving into our archives as APR observes forty years on the air. The U.S. State Department recently invited APR to address a delegation from Africa on our fourteen month investigation into human trafficking. Part of that talk was on an experimental database that law officers and victims’ advocates could use at the same time. Here’s that story from the APR archives.

Alabama’s Governor Robert Bentley is putting his rhetoric against Syrian refugees settling in the state into action.The governor has directed state…