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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...
  • AP News
‘We’re Done’: A&M’s Fisher Fires Back at ‘Narcissist’ Saban
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...
  • AP News
Alabama Shipwreck Holds Key for Kin of Enslaved Africans
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...
  • AP News
Researchers Returning for Assessment of Last US Slave Ship
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.
  • Fact Check
Man Finds Buried Chain, Pulls It Up, and Jumps Back?
Audience, Person, Crowd
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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Did Ex-Judge Roy Moore Write Anti-Abortion Poem ‘America the Beautiful’?
AP
‘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?
  • AP News
‘No Real Timetable’ for Return of Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa
Did Alabama Bless ‘Incest’ Marriages Between Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Nieces?
  • 13 September 2019
A routine review of content labeled satire.
  • Fact Check
Did Alabama Bless ‘Incest’ Marriages Between Brothers and Sisters, Uncles and Nieces?
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...
  • AP News
University of Alabama Rejects $26M Gift after Abortion Flap
Alabama’s Governor Signs Abortion Ban into Law
  • 15 May 2019
Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the measure.
  • AP News
Alabama’s Governor Signs Abortion Ban into Law
Doug Jones
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...
  • Fact Check
Did Alabama State Police Arrest Three Poll Workers in Birmingham?
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...
  • Fact Check
Were ‘Black People in Birmingham’ Caught Voting Multiple Times With Fake IDs?
Roy Moore
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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Controversial Roy Moore Remarks on Slavery Resurface on Social Media
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