TAMPA, Fla. — College football’s first national championship rematch was fitting sequel to the original, with an unusual twist at the end. Deshaun Watson and Clemson dethroned the champs and became the first team to beat Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty in a national title game, taking down the top-ranked Crimson Tide 35-31 Monday night in […]
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Possible tornado kills 3 in Alabama as storms cross South
WeatherDB | Graphiq A possible tornado swept through an area in northeast Alabama, killing three in a mobile home and injuring others as severe storms moved across the South overnight, authorities said. The suspected tornado hit in the small community of Rosalie, Jackson County Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen said. Another person in the mobile home […]
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Fuel prices spike after Alabama pipeline explosion
For the second time in less than two months, a major breach closed down a key gasoline pipeline, driving up fuel prices and demonstrating the vulnerability of the entire Eastern Seaboard to an accident on a single piece of infrastructure. Just before 3 p.m. Monday, a track hoe used for excavation struck Colonial Pipeline’s Line No. 1 […]
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Civil rights icon John Lewis to give commencement address at Bates
LEWISTON — John Lewis, a Georgia congressman who has been called “one of the most courageous persons the civil rights movement ever produced,” will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at Bates College on May 29. Lewis is the only living member of the “Big Six” leaders of the civil rights movement, […]
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Alabama city cracking down on diaperless horses
SELMA, Ala. — The west Alabama city of Selma is planning a crackdown on what one councilman says is a big problem: Horse droppings. The City Council passed a law three years ago requiring that horses wear diapers when on city streets, but Councilman Michael Johnson says riders aren’t following the law. Johnson says he […]
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William H. Brayboy
1932 – 2015 LEWISTON — William H. Brayboy, 83, died May 1. He was born in Montgomery, Ala., son of William Sr. and Mable Brayboy. Survivors are wife, Juanita Brayboy; daughter, Geneva Moyer; stepdaughter, Celeste Williams; brother, James Brayboy; aunt, Sally Jay; son-in-law, Jesse B. Moyer; six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
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Eric C. Griffey, MD
1943 – 2015 LEWISTON — Eric C. Griffey, MD, 71, of Auburn, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 29, at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center. Known to many in our community simply as Dr. Griffey, he was born in Mobile, Ala., on Oct. 25, 1943, to Bernard and Hazel Griffey. He enlisted in the United […]
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Collins traveling to Selma for civil rights commemoration
AUGUSTA — Sen. Susan Collins is heading to Selma, Ala., this weekend to honor the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights marches there. On Saturday, Collins and other lawmakers will visit the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where white police beat demonstrators advocating for black voting rights on March 7, 1965, which was called “Bloody Sunday.” […]
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College football: Auburn (Ala.) football player dead after off-campus shooting
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn freshman football player Jakell Lenard Mitchell was fatally shot early Sunday at an off-campus apartment complex where two former football players and another person were killed in a shooting in 2012, police and reports said. Auburn Police Capt. Will Matthews said police responded to a call at 12:25 a.m. of […]
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Hundreds rescued from floodwaters in Fla., Ala.
PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. — People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of about 24 hours, the latest bout of severe weather that began with tornadoes in the Midwest. On […]