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Nick Saban the Alabama college football coach made “despicable” comments about the Texas A&M Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher supposedly using name, image and likeness deals to land their top-ranked recruiting classes and Saban called out Texas A&M on Wednesday night for “buying” players.

‘We’re Done’: A&M’s Fisher Fires Back at ‘Narcissist’ Saban

19 May 2022

Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher called Nick Saban a “narcissist” after the Alabama coach accused...

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Members of the team assessing the sunken wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, are shown looking at timbers from the schooner near Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The ship was scuttled after arriving on the Gulf Coast more than 160 years ago. (AP Photo/Daniel Fiore, Alabama Historical Commission)

Alabama Shipwreck Holds Key for Kin of Enslaved Africans

13 May 2022

Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie...

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FILE - Traffic passes a mural of the slave ship Clotilda along Africatown Boulevard, in Mobile, Ala., May 30, 2019. Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile in May 2022 to assess the sunken remains of the Clotilda, which was the last slave ship to bring captive Africans to the United States more than 160 years earlier. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill, File)

Researchers Returning for Assessment of Last US Slave Ship

2 May 2022

Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile to assess the sunken remains of...

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Online ads and YouTube videos claimed man finds buried chain and said he would keep pulling the old buried chain. However, this was all misleading.

Man Finds Buried Chain, Pulls It Up, and Jumps Back?

11 February 2022

Wales is a long way from Alabama.

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Did Ex-Judge Roy Moore Write Anti-Abortion Poem ‘America the Beautiful’?

2 August 2021

"You think that God’s not angry, that our land’s a moral slum?" the poem asks....

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‘No Real Timetable’ for Return of Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa

21 October 2019

Will Tagovailoa be back in time for the Nov. 9 game against No. 2 LSU?

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Did Alabama Bless ‘Incest’ Marriages Between Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Nieces?

13 September 2019

A routine review of content labeled satire.

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University of Alabama Rejects $26M Gift after Abortion Flap

7 June 2019

University officials denied it had anything to do with the philanthropist's stance on the abortion...

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Alabama’s Governor Signs Abortion Ban into Law

15 May 2019

Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the measure.

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Did Alabama State Police Arrest Three Poll Workers in Birmingham?

17 December 2017

Reports that poll workers had been detained in connection with voter fraud during Alabama's December...

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Lapel with several stickers saying "I Voted"

Were ‘Black People in Birmingham’ Caught Voting Multiple Times With Fake IDs? A so-called "satire" site published a story falsely claiming black voters committed fraud in Alabama's...

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Controversial Roy Moore Remarks on Slavery Resurface on Social Media

8 December 2017

The Alabama politician once again became a topic of debate just days before the end...

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