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Minor high school band director Johnny Mims

Alabama school band director says he was ‘just doing my job’ before police arrested him

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Sister of Birmingham church blast victim befriends daughter of bombing suspect

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Alabama lawmaker’s assistant charged in scheme to misuse grant money

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Landfill fire near Birmingham burning for almost a month

An underground fire has been raging at an environmental landfill near Birmingham for almost a month, covering Alabama’s largest metro area with smoke.
/ December 24, 2022

Team from Black college quits tournament after racial abuse

A women’s volleyball team at a small, historically Black college withdrew from their conference tournament in Alabama after a member was subjected to racial abuse during an awards banquet, officials said.
/ November 17, 2022

Maxine McNair, last living parent of child killed in 1963 bombing, dies

Maxine McNair, 93, was the mother of Carol Denise McNair, who, at 11, was the youngest of the four girls Klansmen killed.
/ January 4, 2022

Alabama woman dies after being rescued from fire that killed granddaughter

Waniki Lushun Fox succumbed to her injuries on Tuesday, two days after firefighters saved her life.
/ December 10, 2021

94-year-old woman fulfills lifelong dream of wearing a wedding dress

A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother’s lifelong dream of wearing a wedding dress was fulfilled, 70 years after her marriage.
/ July 10, 2021
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Great-grandmother graduates from college at 78: ‘Follow your dreams’

Former seamstress and great-grandmother Vivian Cunningham is making headlines for graduating from an Alabama university at the age of 78.
/ May 13, 2021
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Woman killed, four children injured in Alabama Easter Sunday shooting

Radio host Rickey Smiley is offering a reward in the shooting death of Areyelle Yarborough who was killed randomly on Easter Sunday.
/ April 6, 2021