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J’Marion Burnette stood underneath Jordan-Hare Stadium, a few steps from the Auburn football locker room, and scanned his surroundings. His Andalusia Bulldogs had just won its first state title in over 40 years and Burnette’s running ability was a large reason why. In the championship on Dec. 2 though, Burnette was sidelined with a concussion suffered in the third round of the playoffs. He felt proud with his teammates, saying it’s “something that we did and it can’t be taken away,” but it was also important that Burnette retain his senior year to defend it on the field.

Johni Broome’s double-double (18 points and 10 rebounds) and Wendell Green’s 20 points and six assists weren’t enough to keep Auburn from dropping its second consecutive Southeastern Conference road game. Texas A&M got 22 points from Wade Taylor on 5-16 shooting, 4-10 from three, 8-9 from the free-throw line, and 20 points, including 8-9 free throws by Julius Marble in Tuesday’s 83-78 victory against Auburn.

The NFL combine begins in less than three weeks, and no school will have more players in Indianapolis this year than Alabama. The Tide had 13 players invited to the 2023 combine, the league announced Wednesday. That topped Georgia, which had 12 this year after the Bulldogs led the nation last year with 14 invites.

The second annual Nick Saban Legacy Award show honored two lifers Tuesday night in Birmingham. Both honorees, Bill Snyder and Vince Dooley, spent their entire college head coaching careers at a single stop. Snyder famously built Kansas State from the worst major college program to a powerhouse while Dooley won the 1980 national title during his 25-year reign at Georgia.

DeMarcus Ware played wide receiver and linebacker for a 5-5 football team at Auburn High School as a senior. That spring, he completed his prep career by playing right field as the Tigers reached the semifinals of the AHSAA Class 6A baseball playoffs and finishing 15th in the 6A boys’ long jump at the state outdoor track and field championships.

Despite a court ruling suggesting that Montgomery police used excessive force, and despite the family’s call for the body camera footage to be made public, the four-year-old video of a police dog biting and killing a Black man remains private. A federal judge last week denied immunity for Montgomery...

Huntsville City Schools has responded to recent incidents of guns being found on campus by bringing in a new security system. A family has received a $2.7 million settlment after a Montgomery, Alabama, man was killed by exploding shrapnel from a defective airbag system. A Naval ship is coming for...

Alabama already has the nation’s best city to live in. Now you can vote to make another town the best in the South. Alexander City has been nominated as Best Small Southern Town by USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice 2023 and winners are determined by an online vote. Alexander City is the only Alabama city among the 20 nominees – which include towns and cities from Texas to Florida to Virginia.

The Auburn University family is celebrating after one of its directors received a prestigious award from the Federal Aviation Administration. On Jan. 27, Auburn leadership and community gathered to celebrate School of Aviation Director James Witte after he received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. The award is the FAA’s...

Southern Company has announced a new chief financial officer for Alabama Power as part of a second round of executive appointments announced this year. Montgomery native Moses Feagin, currently serving as senior vice president, treasurer and CFO at Mississippi Power, will become Alabama Power’s CFO March 1. Last month,...

A Phenix City man was reportedly killed over the weekend in a drive-by shooting Saturday afternoon. No suspects were in custody as of Monday, but police are seeking to identify a car that was in the area during the shooting that killed 22-year-old Daeqwon Mackey, Phenix City police told WVTM.

A 34-year-old man was killed in a weekend shooting in Sylacauga. Sylacauga police on Sunday responded to reports of shots fired in the Drew Court Housing Complex. They arrived to find a man unresponsive in the front yard of 189 Sherwood Drive, said Lt. Willis Whatley. Officers began CPR on...

A Sunday night shooting in Montgomery left one man dead and another behind bars. Montgomery police and fire medics responded at 9:30 p.m. to the 3200 block of Eastern Boulevard on a report of a person shot, said Maj. Saba Coleman. They arrived to find 25-year-old Akhil Sai Mahankali suffering...

The family of a Montgomery man killed in a 2022 auto crash has received a $2.7 million settlement over defective airbags they say led to his death. Beasley Allen and The Vance Law Firm represented the family of Tocarious Johnson, who died June 6, 2022 in a Montgomery crash. The family sued Chrysler, the auto dealer and a maintenance firm.