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Alabama will soon join the states that have banned or restricted the presence of cellphones in schools. The Alabama Senate voted 30-2 for the bill to prohibit students in K-12 public schools from using phones during the school day.
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Turkey hunters in central Alabama are being invited to take part in a unique photo competition. Alabama Black Belt Adventures are holding what’s called the Turkey Shoot photo contest.
The co lead-counsel in a $3 billion dollar settlement plan with the NCAA over name, image, and likeness deals for college student athletes took direct aim at former Alabama football coach Nick Saban. Steve Berman says he thinks an updated agreement with the NCAA will solve the judge's concerns over roster limits that have delayed the settlement's approval
Birmingham officials are fighting to keep control of the state's largest water board, alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that a new bill shifting power to Alabama's Republican leadership and majority-white suburbs "constitutes blatant racial discrimination."
Fairfield native, former U.S. Senator for Alabama and former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones. Ever wonder what he's up to these days or how he likes to eat his grits? He tells Quick-Fire Quips host Baillee Majors all about it. Plus, they talk childhood heroes and Alabama stereotypes.
The deadline to get a REAL ID is fast approaching in Alabama and elsewhere after years of postponements and delays. Starting May 7, your license or identification card will need to be REAL ID-compliant to fly domestically in the U.S. It’s also known as the “STAR ID” in Alabama.
In this edition of StoryCorps, Julie shares the story of her son's cancer diagnosis as a child.
This week, Don reviews "The Boomerang: A Thriller" by Robert Bailey.
University of Alabama graduates could have some unwelcome news coming today. The Trump administration is ordering the U.S. Department of Education to start collecting on student loans in default. The U.S. Treasury Department could claw back those dollars through the garnishment of wages. The website Education Data Initiative says Alabama has greater student loan debt on average than the rest of the nation. Over six hundred thousand Alabamians have outstanding college loans that need to be paid back.
Alireza Doroudi has been detained in an immigration facility in Louisiana for nearly six weeks. Doroudi's detention has instilled fear in the small Iranian community in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he and his fiancee are doctoral students. Doroudi's visa was revoked in 2023, but he wasn't given a reason. His fiancee says he was told that he was legally allowed to stay in the U.S. as long as he remained a student. Now, one Iranian doctoral student says the fear in her community "feels like we're returning back to Iran again."
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Dr. Don Noble, specializing in Southern and American literature, gives his weekly review on the work of Alabama’s finest authors.
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Quick-Fire Quips is centered around people who stand out in Alabama. Host Baillee Majors presents guests with a questionnaire of playful personal questions and questions about the Yellowhammer State.
After the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, hundreds of children from the affected areas dealt with multiple health issues caused by radiation from the nuclear meltdown. A few years later, families from all across Alabama housed many of those same children for a summer to give them access to better healthcare and a reprieve from the radiation.
Alabama Public Radio newsroom student intern Barry Carmichael recently reported on a bill before the state legislature that would widen the incentives to bring entertainment projects to Alabama. That list of films also feature “The Life of Chuck,” based on a novel by Stephen King, which was shot along the Alabama Gulf coast. That includes a tie-in to “Star Wars” and the observance of Sunday's “May the 4th Be With You” Day, which is followed by Monday's "Revenge of the 5th." Both are a play on words related to the Sci Fi film classic series.
Alabama is known as “football country.” But, this Saturday, a Thomasville grocery story owner has his sights on something other than the CFP College Football Championship. Robbie Norman owns Coal Battle--an unproven racehorse he reportedly bought for $70,000 two years ago. Coal Battle has paid back that investment with a shot at the so called “run for the roses.”
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged "bias" in the broadcasters' reporting.
President Donald Trump has offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at The University of Alabama. But his speech Thursday night was interspersed with complaints about his critics, accusations that judges were “interfering” with his agenda and attacks on his predecessor, Joe Biden. Democrats held a counterprotest a mile away that featured former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke and former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama.
From Tokyo to Taipei to Manila, people across Asia marked May Day with marches and protests that spotlighted growing unease over U.S. President Donald Trump's policies and fears of global economic instability.
A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center. Regan Prater was arrested last week and charged with one count of arson. Rosa Parks and John Lewis trained there.
Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Mobile, Alabama native Alexis Herman, the first Black U.S. Secretary of Labor and a fierce advocate for workplace equality. She died last week at the age of 77.
The White House is opening a weeklong celebration of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. Officials kicked off the promotional campaign Monday with a focus on his immigration crackdown. Trump is holding a rally in Michigan on Tuesday and delivering a commencement address at the University of Alabama on Thursday.
In this edition of StoryCorps, Janet Cobb and Shea McLean are back to discuss two major donations to Battleship Memorial Park made by the late Jimmy Buffett.