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Alabama Shakespeare Festival tells tales of power and death
With William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth” — which opened last Thursday on the Festival Stage for Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s 50th season — director Rick Dildine is ...
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Retired Alabama deputy killed in shooting recalled fondly
Madison “Skip” Nicholson retired from his job as a deputy with the Wilcox County Sheriff’s Department, but he never really left. He was still around ...
by Ben Hillyer, Thursday, December 2, 2021 12:26 pm
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Alabama researchers closing in on site of pivotal battle that changed course of Southern history
For a century, researchers have searched for the spot where Hernando de Soto’s Spanish explorers clashed with Chief Tascalusa’s warriors in a devastating battle that ...
by Ben Hillyer, Sunday, November 21, 2021 5:57 am
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It’s a girl! Alabama elementary school students adopt a calf
Every year, John S. Jones Elementary School in Rainbow City celebrates Milk Day, a school day where students are taught about the importance of milk ...
by Ben Hillyer, Sunday, October 31, 2021 6:01 am
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Alabama woman gets life sentence for helping husband plan killings
An Alabama woman received a life sentence Wednesday for helping her husband plan the 2015 killings of his estranged pregnant wife, her unborn child and ...
by Ben Hillyer, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 3:44 pm
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Second suspect faces charges in ‘ambush’ killing of Alabama officer, attempted murder of officer’s girlfriend
A second suspect faces charges in the death of a Selma police officer. Andrevious Quinton Carter, 22, was arrested Monday night on a charge of ...
by Ben Hillyer, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 5:53 am
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Bar known to two generations of Alabama students closing
\A dive bar known to two generations of University of Alabama students, football fans and music lovers is closing. Egan’s Bar is shutting down this ...
by Ben Hillyer, Sunday, August 1, 2021 6:28 am
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Reward offered in Alabama killing of Georgia prison worker
An anti-crime group offered a $2,500 reward Wednesday for information that leads to an arrest in the death of a Georgia prison worker who was ...
by Ben Hillyer, Thursday, June 24, 2021 6:13 am
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Ryan Morrison makes a living as a bagpiper…in Alabama
Before Google, YouTube and Facebook, Ryan Morrison was a Birmingham teenager – a self-described “punk rock kid playing guitar” – who became somewhat obsessed with ...
by Ben Hillyer, Sunday, May 30, 2021 6:49 am
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Widow offering $5,000 reward in multi-vehicle crash that killed her husband
The widow of a trucker killed in a horrific crash on an Alabama interstate is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the ...