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Many Bible Belt preachers silent on shots as COVID-19 surges

Dr. Danny Avula, the head of Virginia’s COVID-19 vaccination effort, suspected he might have a problem getting pastors to publicly advocate for the shots when some members of his own church ...

DATE: Aug 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Religion

Alabama restarts prep football in test of virus precautions

THORSBY, Ala. – It’s mostly quiet in the Alabama farming community of Thorsby aside from trucks and trains that rumble through bound for someplace larger. Remembering directions to the town’...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Religious faith a lifelong constant for Rep. John Lewis

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – From his childhood, when he preached to chickens in the dirt-poor South to his decades as a moral force in Congress, religious faith was a constant in the life of Rep. Joh...

DATE: Jul 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Religion

Security, N.Y. incident leave some unsettled after ‘Joker’

Extra layers of security, intense on-screen action and a frightening incident inside a New York theater combined to create an unsettling experience for some moviegoers who went to see “Joker...

DATE: Oct 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Southern states join to promote civil rights tourism

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Southern states that once fought to maintain racial segregation are now banding together to promote civil rights tourism at sites including the building where the Confeder...

DATE: Jan 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Keith Jackson, 89, broadcaster with ‘Whoa, Nellie! call, dies

Keith Jackson, whose signature phrases like “Whoa, Nellie!” made him the down-home voice of college football during more than five decades as a sportscaster, has died. He was 89. ...

DATE: Jan 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Famed Muscle Shoals music producer Rick Hall dies at 85

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama record producer Rick Hall, who recorded some of the biggest musical acts of the 1960s and ’70s and helped develop the fabled “Muscle Shoals sound,” has died. ...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Secessionists push for South to break away from U.S. again

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried a...

DATE: Aug 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Road trip: The Overseas Highway from Key Largo to Key West

Take the highway from Key Largo to Key West

DATE: Jul 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Alabama town expanding Harper Lee attractions

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Nearly a year after the death of Harper Lee, a group in south Alabama hopes to develop new attractions and bring more tourists to the novelist’s hometown of Monroeville, w...

DATE: Feb 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Tornadoes kill five in four Southern states

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Tornadoes that dropped out of the night sky killed five people in two states and injured at least a dozen more early Wednesday, adding to a seemingly biblical onslaught of...

DATE: Nov 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Memorial to victims of lynching planned

Plans for museum spur mixed feelings

DATE: Sep 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World