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Donna Aaron elected Northport mayor, incumbent Herndon out

Rebecca Rakowitz October 6, 2016

Donna Aaron was elected mayor of Northport in the runoff election 
on Tuesday.By just 24 votes, Aaron, the former Northport City Council president, beat two-term incumbent mayor Bobby Herndon. Three-hundred...

Parts of Florida, South Carolina evacuated for Hurricane Matthew

Rebecca Rakowitz October 6, 2016

Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated Florida and South Carolina on Wednesday as Hurricane Matthew heads toward the United States.Both states are under hurricane warnings and hurricane watches in 
certain...

U.S. 98 Roadwork Top Priority

Mike Finnegan October 6, 2016

Following a $65 million allocation of the BP settlement funds to Alabama’s coastal highways, U.S. 98 has been moved to the top of roadwork priorities in southern Alabama.U.S. 98 has had over 50 fatal...

Three injured at shooting near Cypress Inn and Buddy's Food Mart

Three injured at shooting near Cypress Inn and Buddy's Food Mart

Rebecca Rakowitz October 3, 2016

Three people were wounded when 50 gunshots were fired near Tuscaloosa's Cypress Inn Restaraunt and Buddy's Food Mart early Sunday morning. Victims include a 22-year-old African-American man, a 20-year-old...

Lawsuit against Saudi Arabia filed by 9/11 widow

Rebecca Rakowitz October 3, 2016

A 9/11 widow filed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia on Friday, just two days after Congress overrode the president’s veto of the controversial Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The Act allows...

Northport runoff elections to take place Tuesday

Rebecca Rakowitz October 3, 2016

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. on Tuesday as Northport holds a runoff mayoral election.Incumbent Mayor Bobby Herndon, who has served for two terms, will run against Donna Aaron, Northport’s...

UAPD sends email about robbery on Sunday

Rebecca Rakowitz October 3, 2016

An email was sent to students around 4 a.m. on Sunday detailing a University of Alabama Police Department investigation of an on-campus robbery.The email states that UAPD investigated a robbery in the...

Partial Trump Tax Return Shows Loss

Mike Finnegan October 3, 2016

On Saturday, The New York Times released a story detailing the specifics of Republican nominee Donald J. Trump's 1995 tax return. The information was leaked to The Times by an anonymous source and comes...

Muffins recalled in Alabama

Rebecca Rakowitz September 29, 2016

Café Valley, a baking company based out of Phoenix, has issued a recall of some of its muffins, as they may contain 
unlabelled nuts.In an announcement on the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s website,...

Senate Overrides Obama's Veto

Mike Finnegan September 29, 2016

In overwhelming numbers, the U.S. Congress voted on Wednesday to override President Barack Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The bill marks the first time one of Obama’s...

Wells Fargo to drop sales goals soon, executives lose money

Rebecca Rakowitz September 29, 2016

Wells Fargo has made changes to its plan to fix the damage caused by over two million acts of fraud, whereby employees who had high sales goals and incentives opened new, unauthorized accounts using existing...

Court upholds Alabama's PAC to PAC contribution ban

Jordan LaPorta September 29, 2016

On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld Alabama’s ban on contributions from one political action committee to another. The court found that the state’s 2010 law is not in...