Alabama News
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John Lewis remembers 'Bloody Sunday' march, beatings
4:53 PM on 03/07/2010
SELMA, Alabama (AP) - Georgia Congressman John Lewis strolled to the middle of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and remembered the incident 45 years ago...
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Former Birmingham mayor gets 15 years for bribery
4:23 PM on 03/07/2010
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for taking clothes, Rolex watches, loan payments and cash worth more than $240,000...
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TheGrio's 100: Artur Davis, looking to be the new face of Dixie politics
5:00 AM on 02/18/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Can an African-American become the next Governor of Alabama? Once unthinkable in a state infamous for its history of segregation, U.S. Representative Artur Davis wants to break through in 2010...
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Governor candidate faces opposition from black leaders
2:59 PM on 12/29/2009
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A congressman trying to becoming Alabama's first black governor is facing opposition from some unlikely critics -- black leaders who were on the front lines of the civil rights movement...
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Ingram delivers Alabama its first Heisman
8:18 AM on 12/14/2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mark Ingram dabbed his eyes, took a deep breath and tried to steady himself. All set, he accepted the Heisman that completes Alabama's trophy case...
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Precious director may march to Selma
12:12 PM on 11/18/2009
FROM THE GUARDIAN> It is the Alabama town forever associated with the civil rights struggle after state troopers clubbed and tear-gassed activists as they tried to march on the state capital, Montgomery, 54 miles away. Now the story of the historic marches from Selma in 1965, which led to legislation...
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Judge accused of sexually abusing male inmates found not guilty
3:37 PM on 10/26/2009
MOBILE, Alabama (AP) -- A former Alabama judge has been cleared of charges accusing him of paddling and sexually abusing male inmates...
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Corruption trial of Birmingham mayor begins
12:06 PM on 10/20/2009
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Mayor Larry Langford could be tossed out of office and go to prison if convicted of federal bribery charges...
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Alabama county takes on tons of toxic waste (coal ash)
11:37 AM on 10/13/2009
From the Birmingham Weekly> Into a place where the Cahaba, one of America's last free-running wild rivers, flows, Perry County in Alabama is welcoming, and the Environmental Protection Agency is permitting, almost four million tons of toxic waste (coal or fly ash), shipped in from a TVA plant 300 miles...
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Judge accused of having sexual relationships with male inmates appears in court
4:54 PM on 10/07/2009
VIDEO - An Alabama judge is sitting on the opposite side of the bench, accused of improper relationships with inmates. Jury selection is underway...
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Former judge accused of having sex with male inmates
8:01 AM on 10/05/2009
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican...
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Condoleezza Rice joins exclusive, formerly white-only golf club
11:00 AM on 09/15/2009
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined two exclusive golf clubs in Alabama...
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Caught on tape: Alabama woman robs 81 year old
7:37 AM on 09/04/2009
VIDEO - Police say a Mobile, Alabama woman is attacking people at stores and robbing them in broad daylight. Authorities say the crimes are getting bolder everyday.
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Birmingham mayor backs refunds for Jim Crow fines
5:54 AM on 08/13/2009
VIDEO - The mayor of Birmingham now wants the city to give refunds to people who paid fines for violating segregation laws decades ago. Civil rights leaders came out to speak on the decision...
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Alabama reacts to Obama's surgeon general pick
8:37 AM on 07/14/2009
On Monday, President Obama nominated a family doctor from Bayou La Batre, Alabama, to be the next surgeon general of the United States. She is Dr. Regina Benjamin, the family physician at her own health clinic in the bayou, a clinic that helps serve the needy in the community. It's...
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Regina Benjamin picked to be next Surgeon General
11:58 AM on 07/13/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, choosing a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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Mississippi still the fattest state
8:09 AM on 07/01/2009
LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. Obesity rates among...
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One of the oldest black cities in U.S. fights to stay alive (video)
9:02 AM on 06/14/2009
HOBSON CITY, Ala. (AP) - The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama's oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses line the narrow streets. Hobson City no longer has a police or fire department, and weeds have overgrown the oldest part of the cemetery and...
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theGrio reflects: June 11, 1963 University of Alabama integration standoff (video)
12:50 PM on 06/07/2009
theGrio reflects on the battle for desegregation on June 11, 1963 with icue.com. Forty six years ago, this week, Governor Wallace attempted to stop two African American students from entering the University of Alabama. This is what happened as Nicholas Katzenbach, accompanied by two federal marshals, left their car and...
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Alabama school fight caught on tape (video)
10:44 AM on 06/05/2009
Evergreen, AL - Police officers in Alabama are searching for suspects involved in a vicious beating that was caught on camera. Thursday, six assailants beat a 29-year-old man in inside a junior high school gymnasium in Evergreen, Alabama. The assault was recorded on an onlooker's cell phone. According to officials...
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Obama and Dems: 'We're well past 216' votes for health reform
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and House Democratic leaders struck a last-minute deal Sunday with abortion foes to secure the final few votes needed...
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