FLORENCE — Shoals-area families on Monday night had the opportunity to learn what the Creating Hope and Opportunity for Our Students' Education (CHOOSE) Act means for them.Â
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FLORENCE — The YMCA of the Shoals will host a holiday marketplace from 8 a.m. until noon on Wednesday.
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FLORENCE — Alabama Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) is receiving $1.43 million from the U.S. Department of Justice while the Florence-based One Place of the Shoals will receive $96,000 to continue proving emotional support, safety services and assisting victims of abuse through the l…
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FLORENCE — The George H. Carroll Lion Habitat had been empty since May 2 when Leo III died after more than 21 years of roaming the cage on the University of North Alabama campus.
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KILLEN — A city resident has expressed concern about the items being dumped near the business, despite the owner of Arx Mortis erecting "No Dumping" signs on the property.
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FLORENCE — The candy came in many unique forms and flavors and from a variety of countries, but they all had a common trait — each was delicious.
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FLORENCE — The city council discussed four options Monday on the direction to take regarding a proposed new city hall, but no decisions were made.
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TUSCUMBIA — Senior citizens in Tuscumbia have a question for Mayor William Foster.
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FLORENCE — District 5 City Council member Blake Edwards said it appears a contractor is conducting borings on the site of a potential grocery store at the corner of Cloverdale Road and Wright Drive.
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MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House Democratic Caucus has launched a renewed effort to urge their fellow state lawmakers to support several gun safety bills in the wake of the deadly shooting last week at Tuskegee University.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Kremlin warned Monday that President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles adds “fuel to the fire” of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher.
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has reignited a debate that many thought had been long settled: Should women be allowed to serve their country by fighting on the front lines?
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BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike slammed into a densely populated residential area in Lebanon’s capital near key government and diplomatic buildings late Monday, killing at least five people as the U.S. pressed ahead with cease-fire efforts.
About one in five Americans – and a virtually identical share of Republicans and Democrats – regularly get their news from digital influencers who are more likely to be found on the social media platform X, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Research Center.
A company affiliated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked a federal judge on Monday to disqualify a bid by the satirical news outlet The Onion to buy Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, alleging fraud and collusion.
MONTGOMERY — Alabama is planning to carry out the nation’s third execution with nitrogen gas as critics argue the method needs more scrutiny before it is used to put another person to death.
ROME — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002 to the rest of the world, arguing that children everywhere should be protected from predator priests.
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TUSCUMBIA — Colbert County Sheriff Eric Balentine said one of the goals of his inaugural Thanksgiving Dinner is bringing the community together to share a meal and some fellowship.
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The historic LaGrange College Site Park is hosting its annual Christmas in the Country fundraising event Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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FLORENCE — District 4 Councilwoman Michelle Eubanks will hold a community meeting starting at 6 p.m. Thursday at the East Campus of the University of North Alabama.
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BARTON — Global hygiene and health company Essity will join with The Meal Barrel Project to help feed Shoals residents during Thanksgiving.
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FLORENCE — The annual lighting of Wilson Park is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Dec. 7.
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SHEFFIELD — A host of live performers which include Gary Baker, Kelvin Holly, Will McFarlane, Mark Naramore, Katlyn Barnes and Jill Riley will provide music for the upcoming Swampathon 2.0 virtual fundraising event for the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation.
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Six campgrounds operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority in Tennessee have closed for the winter and all staffed TVA dam welcome centers will close by Monday, according to a TVA news release.
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MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Re-Entry Commission discussed Tuesday the underreporting of crime data from local municipalities, and its potential impact on reducing recidivism.
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MONTGOMERY — Alabama schools improved their overall grade to 85 points out of 100 available on both state and federal report cards for the 2023-24 school year, according to preliminary data presented to state board of education members during their work session on Thursday.
TUSCUMBIA — Colbert County Sheriff Eric Balentine said one of the goals of his inaugural Thanksgiving Dinner is bringing the community together to share a meal and some fellowship.
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FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama at 11:30 a.m. on Monday at the George H. Carroll Lion Habitat will honor the legacies of Leo III and Una as well as their late caregivers, Anne and Dan Howard.Â
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As detective sergeant of police for the City of Florence, Cliff Billingsley admits he’s had little time for travel over the course of his career. But a recent trip to visit his daughter, Kate, a freshman at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, has stoked his wanderlust.
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Sherry Lloyd, a native of Florence, is hoping to inspire women interested in entering the tech industry as she continues to grow her own events and ticketing platform in a male-dominated field.
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FLORENCE — The University Orchestra will present "Holiday Gallop" on Tuesday at Norton Auditorium according to the University of North Alabama's Department of Music.
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MUSCLE SHOALS — A special called work session has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday at city hall to discuss the fiscal 2025 general fund budget, City Clerk Brittany Walker said.
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TUSCUMBIA — The Tuscumbia Civitan Club has re-released its 2023 Civitan Christmas Ornament, which featured Deshler High School.Â
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MONTGOMERY — Alabama’s infant mortality rate has climbed to the highest level since 2016, according to new data shared Thursday by the Alabama State Committee of Public Health.
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FLORENCE — Alabama's federal legislative delegation has sent a letter to the officials with the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, expressing concern over the impact of "lock failures" on supply chains that depend on the state's inland water system.
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SHEFFIELD — A Killen woman is accused of illegal drug trafficking after Colbert County Drug Task Force agents found more than 2,600 pressed fentanyl pills inside the vehicle she was driving Thursday afternoon.
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FLORENCE — City council members are worried about the proposed new city hall project as anticipated costs continue to rise above the $48 million bond the city purchased for its construction.
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SHEFFIELD — A march is planned for Nov. 23 amid an FBI investigation into the death of a man whose body was found hanging on Sept. 28 from the carport of an abandoned house off U.S. 72 in Colbert County.
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SHEFFIELD — A month after Helen Keller Hospital dropped UnitedHealthcare coverage, a resolution was reached between the two parties. However, it may be temporary. Â
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MONTGOMERY — Unemployment in the Shoals held steady at 3.2% in October amid the area's largest labor force since at least 1990, according to the latest figures from the Alabama Department of Labor.
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MUSCLE SHOALS — Police Chief Clint Reck said the department will acquire another canine officer following the retirement of Bane, and the transfer of his handler to the Colbert County Drug Task Force.
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LIMA, Peru — President Joe Biden is gathering South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for talks Friday amid heightened concerns about North Korea’s growing military partnership with Russia and Pyongyang’s stepped-up cadence of ballistic missile tests.
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WASHINGTON — After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans said is a mandate to govern, an uneasy political question is emerging: Will there be any room for dissent in the U.S. Congress?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo he has that's associated with white supremacist groups.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea tested exploding drones designed to crash into targets and leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating mass production of the weapons, state media said Friday.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three former Memphis police officers charged with murder in the beating of Tyre Nichols will go on trial in April, a judge decided Friday.
MONTGOMERY (AP) — A statue of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, has been unveiled in Alabama's capital city.
NEW YORK — A representative for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York City mayor is relinquishing his cherished watches ahead of a Friday deadline to turn over his assets to two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.
MELBOURNE, Australia — How do you remove children from the harms of social media?
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