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The Alabama Town So Affordable, You Can Live On Social Security Alone

Here’s a sentence you don’t hear very often: your Social Security check might actually be enough. Not enough to survive with careful rationing and a lot of crossed fingers. Enough to actually live, comfortably, in a real community with real amenities, real food, and real neighbors who know...

Russellville, AL · 5d

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Results coming in for Alabama sheriff races

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Residents in four counties headed to the polls Tuesday where they voted for, among other races, a new sheriff. Some other counties had races where there was no challenger. Covington, Crenshaw, Dallas, and Lee counties are selecting new top law enforcement officers. COVINGTON. Incumbent Sheriff Blake...

Alabama · 3d

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Halloween Horror: Famous Child Killer Tells Parole Board They Are Moving To Alabama

Paula Sims, whose case inspired the 1990s film Precious Victims, has been approved for parole by the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. She killed her two young children and initially blamed kidnappers before confessing.

Alabama · 7d

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Born on a bridge: The unfinished fight for voting rights

The right to vote survives because people are willing to defend it. Selma helped give the nation the Voting Rights Act. Decades later, a lawsuit from Shelby County weakened its protections. What happens when the safeguards won through sacrifice begin to disappear?. In this episode of "This Matters," Bill Britt...

Selma, AL · 1d

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Hunter focuses campaign on affordability, housing and health care

Gadsden community organizer Robert Hunter is campaigning for Alabama House District 28 with a focus on rent stabilization, Medicaid expansion and increasing the minimum wage. Robert Hunter says affordability is at the center of his campaign for Alabama House District 28. The 30-year-old Gadsden resident is running for the state...

Gadsden, AL · 4d

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You Could Spend Hours Wandering Through This Massive Fabric Warehouse In Alabama

There are stores you visit, and then there are stores you experience, and Wilson’s Fabric in Boaz, Alabama falls so firmly into the second category that the first category barely applies. Clearing your afternoon schedule before you go is not optional, it’s just good planning. Let’s be straightforward...

Boaz, AL · 5d

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Black Belt election results in Tuesday's General Election

Here’s a rundown of Nov. 3 General Election local results in Black Belt counties covered by the Black Belt News Network, according to the Alabama Secretary of State’s website. Dallas County had 13,698 votes, which is a 48% turnout. Dallas County Sheriff winner is DeWayne Sanders, who got...

Marengo County, AL · 3d

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Alabama administrator named Universities of Wisconsin president

A longtime University of Alabama System administrator has been selected as the next president of the Universities of Wisconsin. The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Oct. 30 voted unanimously to appoint Tonjanita "Tonja" L. Johnson as the system's next president. Johnson, 57, currently serves as senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs for the University of Alabama System, a position she has held since 2019. She is expected to begin her new role on or about Jan. 1. Johnson oversees academic and student affairs across the UA System, including academic planning, student success initiatives, institutional research and statewide policy development. She also serves as a liaison to the UA System board of trustees and represents Alabama's public universities before government agencies and national higher education organizations. "I am deeply honored by the confidence the Board of Regents has placed in me and excited about the opportunity to serve the people of Wisconsin," Johnson said in a statement. "Public higher education has the power to improve lives, strengthen communities and shape a state's future." Johnson will become the 10th president of the Universities of Wisconsin, which includes 13 public universities and serves more than 160,000 students statewide. More:

Wisconsin · 3d

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Alabama Christmas snow chances revealed for 2026

Alabama · 2d

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Mayor Reed on Tuberville's call to 'clean up' Montgomery

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed responded to Tommy Tuberville's promise to "clean up Montgomery" and eliminate crime in the downtown area.

Montgomery, AL · 2d

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2 Montgomery County School Board members voted out

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery residents voted in two contested races for the Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday. In District 1, Democrat Dwayne Farrior defeated Republican Lesa Keith. Keith has been on the school board for more than 10 years. Farrior had 65% of the vote, while Keith had 35% of the vote.

Montgomery County, AL · 2d

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Lighting upgrades coming to I-85 and I-65

The City of Montgomery is set to receive lighting upgrades on Interstate 65 and 85.

Montgomery, AL · 2d

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New access road now open for Pike Road Elementary

An exciting upgrade is coming to Pike Road elementary school.

Pike Rd, AL · 2d

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Montgomery awarded $13.4M to replace aging I-65 and I-85 lighting

Montgomery will receive $13,407,200 in federal funding to replace failing lights along Interstate 65 and Interstate 85, where much of the lighting infrastructure is more than 50 years old. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the award October 30 through its fiscal year 2026 Safe Streets and Roads for All...

Montgomery, AL · 2d

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Almost 13 million enslaved people memorialized in America's Deep South

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice commemorates those killed by racial terror lynchings Equal Justice Initiative/Human Pictures The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama , is a 17-acre site dedicated to honoring the nearly 13 million Black people forced into the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The park features more than 50 artworks, including Kehinde Wiley’s An Archaeology of Silence and the 43ft-high National Monument to Freedom, which is engraved with the names of over 1,000 survivors of slavery. It is one of four Legacy sites in Montgomery developed by the Equal Justice Initiative, a US non-profit organisation founded by Bryan Stevenson to challenge racial injustice. The other Legacy sites include Montgomery Square, the Legacy Museum, and a national memorial dedicated to more than 4,400 victims of racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950. The initiative aims to educate visitors on America's history of racial violence while inspiring ongoing action against modern bigotry, bias, and injustice. IN FULL The Alabama sculpture park honouring the courage of America’s enslaved

Montgomery, AL · 4d

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Results for Alabama attorney general, auditor, agriculture commissioner & treasurer

Results are in for a number of statewide races in Alabama.

Alabama · 2d

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Democrat Shomari Figures reelected to Alabama's District 2 seat

Incumbent Democrat Shomari Figures defeated Republican Rhett Marques in the Nov. 3 midterm elections for Alabama’s Congressional District 2 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Figures, a Mobile native, earned 54% of the vote, edging out Marques by nearly 17,000 votes, the Associated Press reports. The race for...

Montgomery, AL · 3d

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Alabama Left Mostly Dry in Blue Tsunami, With Most Republicans Keeping or Winning Office

Alabama's 2nd congressional district, drawn to give Democrats a majority-minority seat, stayed in Democratic hands with Shomari Figures winning reelection despite limited national momentum.

Alabama · 2d

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Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth predicts a ‘strong night’ for Alabama Republicans, no ‘blue wave’ for the state

Alabama Lieutenant Governor Will Ainsworth has full faith in Alabama Republicans heading into the election, predicting it’ll be a “strong night” for the Alabama GOP, but for Republicans nationally, it could be a different story. “I think Republicans are going to do fine in our state,” Ainsworth...

Alabama · 3d

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CAVHCS holds annual Veterans Day parade Thursday

The Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System held its annual Veterans Day parade in Tuskegee.

Tuskegee, AL · 1d