Start your morning with the latest news and stories from Alabama. Then, hear the stories behind the stories as Ike Morgan is joined by voices from the AL.com newsroom and beyond for deep dives on pressing topics, news quizzes and a whole lot of fun.
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Vaping in public venues, U.S. Steel sale, Facebook Marketplace violence
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Today we'll talk about what the next legislative session might do about vaping, What U.S. Steel might do if it doesn't sell to a Japanese company, and what went wrong in a Facebook Marketplace transaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Today we have the pending retirement of Troy University Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr., an update on Friday's triple homicide, and a widow who says a Florida hospital removed the wrong organ from her husband. Then we're going to talk to Leada Gore about presidential-race polling trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Today: a proposed tweak to permitless carry, a shooting at a vigil for a previous shooting, and a 117-year-old weather record that fell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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A woman who did time for a Birmingham murder and has been deported four times has been arrested again. The march toward medical-marijuana plods along. Threat of gun violence ends high school football game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Quiz day! Also, a union arrest and the Bart Starr home
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Hey, we have another review quiz coming up. First, though, we have news items on continued fallout from the Warrior Met Coal strike, a shipbuilder agreeing to a $24 million settlement and also launching a new line of boats, and Bart Starr's former home is just there waiting for you to buy it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc…
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Today's news includes: A verdict in seven 2020 Morgan County killings. No injunction on transgender-therapies law. Arrests related to gambling machines that were shut down in one city only to show up in another. More preserve on Fort Morgan peninsula. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Fighting recidivism; talking college football
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Today let's talk recidivism, familiar gambling machines and the president of Iceland's Alabama tie. Then it's college football season so we're going to talk college football with reporter and WNSP radio host Mark Heim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Methodist lawsuits, more about the man who died three decades after being shot, an electric semi-truck, and the state of debates in this country and this state. Click here for more on the Alabama 2nd Congressional District debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Today: The sad news on Caden Tellier from the Morgan Academy game. Church of the Highlands in Daphne. The Southern pine beetles on the March. Transfer-portal quotes, beginning with what the coach of The Other Miami said about Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Community colleges, unusual homicide, news quiz
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Today we have another brave listener willing to face down our Friday news quiz. First, we have news items on community colleges, an unusual homicide and two cities where you can stretch your dollar the farthest (according to one report). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Real-estate market; shark-attack victim's homecoming
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Today we talk about the real-estate market, felons voting and a shark-attack victim's update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Delta 8 and legal trouble over a legal product
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Today on the show we're going to talk with reporter Amy Yurkanin, who has done reporting on Delta 8, hemp, and the trouble a pregnant woman found herself in after using a legal product. But first, let's talk about an impeachment lawsuit against a mayor, crime-fighting measures in Birmingham, and an impressive cruise out of Mobile. Learn more about …
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We're gonna talk about an Alabama candidate at the DNC, the law coming down on alleged gambling joints in Selma, and a pier that's finally opened back up. We also have good weather news, and I'm going to share some thoughts about, well, sandwiches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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More rules for schools; Keith Urban's surprise
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Today we have some more rules for schools, a man in trouble over a stuffed bird, and a pop-up Keith Urban concert at Buc-ee's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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After the news, a listener takes the Alabama news quiz
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Today we have an update on charges that were filed against the Tarrant mayor, a police officer's guilty plea in a drug-planting case, a Birmingham bishop elected World Methodist Council president, and a couple of events in Coastal Alabama. After the break a listener will take our weekly Alabama news quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…
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More tension in troubled Tarrant and the Carrot Top story
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Today we have more controversy in Tarrant, a tragic high school football player death, money for dredging Mobile Bay, and a school going virtual because of COVID. Jonathan Sobolewski is going to tell you how the comedian Carrot Top once lost some precious props in an Alabama fire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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How did your child's school perform on state tests last year?
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Today we’ve got good news from Alabama’s public schools, we’ve got troubling news for the state’s last Macy’s, and we’ve got the results of a pilot program for single mothers in Birmingham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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AL.com Matt Wake interviews guitarist Slash leading up to tonight's show at the Orion Amphitheater. We also have the workers that were being bused into one Alabama city and why, the highest-paying non-profit salary in the state (more on that in The Birmingham News daily digital edition) and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…
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Railcar explosion, Bubba update: Down in Alabama
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Today we have a railcar explosion on the Mobile Bay, where Bill Bussey will go once "Rick & Bubba" ends, and an extended space-station stay for a couple of astronauts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Hoover coaches, prisoner swap, Roy Wood Jr.
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School clothing restricts and future ACTs
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Today we speak with reporter Williesha Morris about some of the trends in what students can and can't wear in some Alabama schools. Also, some changes to the ACT. First, our news report includes a helicopter crash, a bill targeting illegal Mexican fishing, and the passing of a Birmingham-area political figure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi…
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Today on the show we talk with reporter William Thornton about his day at a reunion of the descendants of slaves at a plantation in Etowah County. First, though, let's talk about that passenger rail vote, Hoover coaches on administrative leave, a new member in the state's Jazz Hall of Fame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho…
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On today's report we have the invasive species that's shut down an Alabama lake, payments to minority farmers, a big deal in the healthcare industry and a veteran college softball coach stepping down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy AL.com
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Another issue divides state and national Democrats. A Mobile swimmer mines metal in Paris. A former Crimson Tide player was killed while transferring to another school. Click here for more on "Beat Everyone," the podcast featured in a trailer at the end of this report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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How will national politics affect District 2?
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Today we have a plea in a Walker County jail inmate's death that was big news last year. We also have Birmingham citizens speaking up and helping out on crime, a big summer for the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, and John Hammontree and I are going to talk national politics and how they might affect the state's politics. And we'll go over a news-review…
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