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— Thunderstorms pummeled the Deep South late Tuesday and early Wednesday, bringing tornadoes, hail, floods and power outages to the region, officials said. >> Read more trending newsAccording to The Associated Press, the National Weather Service said confirmed tornadoes struck Mississippi on Tuesday. Overnight, the storm system slammed Alabama, where a suspected tornado damaged several Hale County homes, the AP reported. Officials across the region had not reported any severe injuries by Wednesday morning, according to the AP. – The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Any future effort to execute Miller will be done by nitrogen hypoxia, a method authorized in Alabama, but never used in the U.S.

Since 1900 lethal injections have been more frequently botched than any of the other type of execution methods used throughout that period.

A wide swath of Mississippi, as well as smaller sections of Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee, are being impacted by strong thunderstorms with the potential for large hail and tornadoes.

Alabama won't seek another lethal injection date for an inmate whose September execution had been halted because of problems establishing an intravenous line, according to the terms of a settlement agreement approved on Monday. The state agreed to never use lethal injection again as an execution method to put Alan Eugene Miller to death. Any future effort to execute him will be done by nitrogen hypoxia, an execution method authorized in Alabama but that has never been used to carry out a death sentence in the US.

The National Weather Service confirmed that several tornadoes had touched down in Mississippi, although it was unclear if there was any significant damage.

Residents in several towns across Louisiana and Mississippi have taken cover amid the blare of tornado sirens amid a severe weather outbreak erupting in the Deep South.

For the first time since Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler roamed the hardwood for Phi Slama Jama, Houston is ranked No. 1.

Houston overtakes North Carolina at No. The tough trip to the Pacific Northwest ended up dropping North Carolina 17 spots to No. Alabama’s win over North Carolina, and another against Michigan State earlier in Portland, jumped it up to No. Purdue jumps after blowout wins over Gonzaga, DukeThough North Carolina struggled in Oregon, Purdue — and star big man Zach Edey — shined. North Carolina (5-2)19.

When Courtney Adeleye learned her child's teacher, Amanda, had a grueling commute to work every day in their rural Alabama suburb, she was moved to help.

18 Alabama sent top-ranked North Carolina to a second straight loss with a 103-101 victory in a quadruple-overtime thriller on Sunday in the third-place game of the Phil Knight Invitational tournament. Bediako gave the Crimson Tide the lead for good on a layup with 26 seconds remaining in the fourth overtime. BIG PICTURENorth Carolina: The Tar Heels figure to take a deep drop in the Top 25 poll. Alabama: The Crimson Tide bounced back nicely following their loss to No. UP NEXT:North Carolina: The Tar Heels travel to Bloomington to face No.

18 Alabama finally knocked off top-ranked North Carolina on Sunday afternoon in Portland. The Crimson Tide survived a wild battle, complete with a controversial finish on a huge block from Charles Bediako, to beat the Tar Heels 103-101 in four overtimes at the Phil Knight Invitational. After a stalemate through three overtimes, it was Leaky Black who finally put the Tar Heels up by one late in the fourth extra period. The Tar Heels then got it back after forcing a turnover on the inbounds immediately. The Tar Heels have now dropped two straight games, somthing that will drop them from the top spot in the rankings come Monday.

HOUSTON COUNTY, Ala. — An Alabama inmate free on a work release holiday pass was fatally shot on Friday by the estranged husband of a woman the victim was visiting, authorities said. >> Read more trending newsLashawn Poke, 41, of Dothan died at a residence near Taylor, Alabama, WTVY reported. Suspect charged in early morning Taylor shooting https://t.co/WnepzWqka9 — WDHN (@WDHN) November 26, 2022According to court records, Poke was serving time in Houston County Community Corrections, which allows inmates to work jobs outside jail, WDHN-TV reported. He also had a domestic violence-strangulation charge that was going through the court system, court records show. According to court records, Guilford’s wife filed a protection from abuse order against him on Nov. 2.

The CDC, in a report published Wednesday, found that about 51% of abortions in 2020 were performed with the pill at or before the ninth week of pregnancy.

Former Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin said the College Football Playoff committees rankings have an "SEC bias" due to LSU's and Alabama's spots in the order.

Why does Alabama keep botching executions?

The state did not complete the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith because officials couldn't find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs.

Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection. Ivey also requested that Marshall not seek additional execution dates for any other death row inmates until the review is complete. In September, the state called off the scheduled execution of Alan Eugene Miller because of difficulty accessing his veins. Alabama in 2018 called off the execution of Doyle Hamm because of problems getting the intravenous line connected. Alabama should have imposed an execution moratorium after Hamm's failed execution for the benefit of everyone, said Bernard Harcourt, an attorney who represented Hamm for years.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.

An Alabama wrong-way crash a family of five from Georgia, including their two children. A 2021 Toyota Corolla collided with an18-wheeler tractor-trailer on Friday.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection. Ivey's office issued a statement saying she had both asked Attorney General Steve Marshall to withdraw motions seeking execution dates for two inmates and requested that the Department of Corrections undertake a full review of the state's execution process. Ivey also requested that Marshall not seek additional execution dates for any other death row inmates until the review is complete.

Alabama's recent inability to conduct lethal injections is reportedly unprecedented. However, the state denies that a recent execution cancellation reveals problems.

The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.

According to Ngozi Ndulue, deputy director of the Washington-based group, the only other lethal injection stopped before an inmate died also was in Ohio, in 2009. “So Alabama has more aborted lethal injections in the past few years than the rest of the country has overall,” she said. “The question is whether Alabama is going to take that seriously.”The Alabama Department of Corrections disputed that the cancellation was a reflection of problems. But the state decided about an hour later that the lethal injection would not happen that evening. "We have no concerns about the state’s ability to carry out future lethal injection procedures," the Alabama Department of Corrections said in an emailed statement.

A scheduled execution in Alabama was called off Thursday after prison officials couldn’t find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs into.

According to Ngozi Ndulue, deputy director of the Washington-based group, the only other lethal injection stopped before an inmate died also was in Ohio, in 2009. “So Alabama has more aborted lethal injections in the past few years than the rest of the country has overall,” she said. The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Smith’s execution when at about 10:20 p.m. it lifted a stay issued earlier in the evening by the 11th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals. But the state decided about an hour later that the lethal injection would not happen that evening. The initial postponement came after Smith’s final appeals focused on problems with intravenous lines at Alabama’s last two scheduled lethal injections.

Alabama started and then stopped another lethal injection because prison workers were unable to establish the intravenous lines needed to administer a deadly dose.

Alabama's string of troubled lethal injections, which worsened late Thursday as prison workers aborted another execution because of a problem with intravenous lines, is unprecedented nationally, a group that tracks capital punishment said Friday. The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018. The state completed an execution in July, but only after a three-hour delay caused at least partly by the same problem with starting an IV line.

The Buchanan girls were “noticed missing” on Thursday, Nov. 17, officials said.

Alabama's scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1998 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife was called off late Thursday after a problem inserting an IV.

An Alabama woman was convicted Thursday of the kidnapping and death of a 3-year-old girl. Derick Brown and her former boyfriend Patrick Devone Stallworth await trial.

Just a decade ago, Alabama and West Virginia were stuck behind most of their peers in public high-school graduation rates. Now, they're ranked first and third in the country. What happened? And what did data have to do with it?

Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife.

The Alabama senator made remarks about "reparation" at a Trump rally that were widely condemned as racist.

The state of Alabama has set a date for the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, for his part in the 1988 murder-for-hire of a preacher's wife. Smith was sentenced by judicial override.

Alabama has called off the scheduled execution of a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife after the state had trouble establishing venous access and the state faced a midnight deadline to get the execution underway.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — (AP) — Arizona-based First Solar Inc. has selected Alabama as the site of a more than $1 billion factory that will manufacture modules that generate solar power, the company announced Wednesday. First Solar said in a statement that the plant, to be located in Lauderdale County in the Tennessee Valley region, will create more than 700 jobs. The factory is part of a previously announced plan to increase First Solar's U.S. manufacturing capacity to more than 10 gigawatts by 2025, the company said. First Solar describes itself as the only major solar manufacturer that has headquarters in the United States and is not making components in China. The project will bring the company's total investment in U.S. manufacturing to more than $4 billion, it said.

A women's volleyball team at a small, historically Black college withdrew from their conference tournament in Alabama after a member was subjected to racial abuse during an awards banquet, officials said. A Talladega College player using a feature that allows nearby cellphones to transfer data to each other received a “racially motivated picture” during the Southern States Athletic Conference's volleyball awards banquet, held last week during the tournament in Montgomery, the conference said in a statement. Officials didn't release details on what the image showed, but the conference described the act as “vile and vicious.”

The top five teams in the College Football Playoff rankings didn’t change on Tuesday. Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, TCU and Tennessee remained in the top five in that order after wins in Week 11. 6 after a close win at Arkansas and USC jumped up a spot to No. Post-Week 11 College Football Playoff rankings1. Washington19.

Later this term, the justices are expected to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a ruling that would have a profound effect on Black Americans — and House Democrats.

Four solar energy companies that used a common contractor were ordered to pay a total of $1.3 million for environmental violations. The solar farms are in Illinois, Alabama, and Idaho.

A shooting with thousands on the streets at Alabama's National Peanut Festival results in one dead and one injured. Mekhi Nasir Lawton, 18, turned himself in and was charged with murder.

Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart faced the heat from Alabama star linebacker Dallas Turner in Saturday's game. The Rebels lost 30-24.

The LSU Tigers' defense racked up five sacks and forced two fumbles in a 13-10 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks to remain in the top spot in the SEC West division.

The country group landed eight No. 1 songs on the country charts in the early 1980s.

Alabama officials called off the Thursday execution of Alan Miller, convicted in a 1999 workplace shooting, because of trouble administering the lethal injection.

MIAMI — (AP) — Nicole hit Florida's east coast as a hurricane Thursday and remains such a sprawling tropical storm that it has covered nearly the entire state while reaching into Georgia, the Carolinas and Alabama. Authorities warned that Nicole's storm surge could further erode many beaches hit by Hurricane Ian in September. Tropical storm force winds extended as far as 450 miles (720 kilometers) from the center in some directions as Nicole turned northward over central Florida Thursday morning. Nicole became a hurricane Wednesday evening as it slammed into Grand Bahama Island, having made landfall just hours earlier on Great Abaco island as a tropical storm. It was the first storm to hit the Bahamas since Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm that devastated the archipelago in 2019.

In Massachusetts, Democrats and Republicans could find an issue to agree on: letting bars have happy hours.

DAPHNE, Ala. — A debit card fraud alert helped police in Alabama capture three men suspected of stealing several thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and possibly involved with several car break-ins, authorities said. Brian Gulsby said a woman was at a school event at the Trione Sports Complex when she noticed her debit card had been taken, WALA-TV reported. Several days later, the woman’s bank contacted her and said someone had been using her debit card, according to the television station. While the men have not yet been tied to recent vehicle break-ins, Gulsby said they had the means to commit the crimes. “We did recover some burglary tools, window punch and a crowbar, which would certainly lead us to believe they are involved in the vehicle B&E business,” Gulsby told WKRG.

RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. — A northwest Alabama man is accused of beating his teen daughter after the girl told her mother about an alleged affair her father was having on social media, authorities said. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies responded to a call about a man beating his daughter, WHNT-TV reported. Neighbors rescue Russellville teen from allegedly violent father https://t.co/JOKiCTiQxa — News 19 (@whnt) November 9, 2022Deputies said the teen told her mother that her father had a social media account and suspected that he was having an affair, according to the television station. The teen told deputies that when Andrighetti told her to clean up the debris, she noticed that the front door of the home was open and ran to a neighbor’s house to call authorities, according to the television station. Andrighetti remains in the custody of the Franklin County Detention Center and his bail was set at $200,000, online records show.

Measures approved Tuesday curtail the use of prison labor in Alabama, Tennessee and Vermont. In Oregon, "yes" was leading its anti-slavery initiative.

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime.

1 in the second edition of the College Football Playoff rankings. 5 and are the top one-loss team in the rankings. Ohio State, Michigan and TCU make up the top four. Michigan moved up two spots and TCU moved up three. 7 and the top two-loss team in the rankings behind Oregon at No.

The guitarist disclosed in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

DESTIN, Fla. — Country musician and co-founding member of the band Alabama Jeff Cook died Monday at the age of 73, following a 10-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease. We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jeff Cook, co-founding member of legendary band Alabama and Country Music Hall of Fame member. By the mid-1970s, the band performed as Wildcountry before officially forming future Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Alabama in 1977, The Tennessean reported. Tributes to Cook flooded social media:Sending out my deepest condolences to the family, friends and band mates of Jeff Cook from @TheAlabamaBand. — Travis Tritt (@Travistritt) November 8, 2022So sad to hear of the passing of Jeff Cook.

Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama and steered them up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” has died. He was 73.

Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama, has died.

Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama, has died.

Alabama voters on Nov. 8 will vote to ratify a recompilation of the Alabama Constitution that will strip Jim Crow-era language and reorganize the unwieldy governing document.

Native American groups in Alabama and North Carolina are hoping that two outgoing U.S. senators can help them achieve something that's been elusive so far: federal recognition as tribes.

The Tennessee Volunteers are proving just how quickly a traditional powerhouse can rebound despite seeming lost for well over a decade.

The prize-winning documentary, “Descendant,” tells the story of the last known slave ship to America and the descendants of the 110 people aboard.

A man is charged with abusing the corpse of a former girlfriend whose body was found in a shallow grave in an Alabama barn days after the two had met in the Florida Panhandle to exchange custody of their daughter.

Federal regulators said Dollar General is facing another $1.68 million in fines after government safety inspectors found violations at four of the chain’s stores in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month.

An outspoken Christian conservative attorney from Alabama wants a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor's damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions.

The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have met for almost seven hours to work on expanding the postseason system from four to 12 teams as soon as the 2024 season.

Tennessee and North Carolina State have broken into the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll.

Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared three months ago while fighting with Ukrainian forces have arrived in their home state of Alabama.

A new book shows the personal side of the late “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee.

Alabama officials have called off the lethal injection of a man convicted in a 1999 workplace shooting because of time concerns and trouble accessing the inmate’s veins.

Washington made its season debut in The Associated Press college football at No. 18 and Penn State and Oregon moved into the top 15 after all three had decisive nonconference victories.

There may be no reason to put second-ranked Alabama and No. 17 Baylor on upset alert even though both are playing Sun Belt Conference teams in Week 3.

Alabama could be ready to use a new, untried execution method to carry out a death sentence later this month.

Texas freshman quarterback Quinn Ewers has left the field after taking a hard fall on his left shoulder at the end of the first quarter against No. 1 Alabama.

A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor has filed a federal lawsuit over the ordeal.

The College Football Playoff management committee gathered for 4 1/2 hours at a hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

Tua Tagovailoa didn’t seem to celebrate this stat.

The College Football Playoff that determines the national champion is expanding from four teams to 12.

The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss expanding the four-team format.

An anti-death penalty group says Alabama corrections officials apparently botched a man's execution last month.

People in parts of the Deep South are cleaning up after flash flooding sent water into churches, homes and businesses.

Late August storms have proven history of devastating many states along the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the northern Gulf Coast in 2005, just 13 years after Hurricane Andrew devastated South Florida.

An Apopka man was killed Sunday during an attempted robbery at Talladega National Forest in Alabama, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

The National Hurricane Center has a tagged a disturbance near the Louisiana/Alabama coast with a low chance for tropical development.

A federal oversight board is ordering the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company where members have been on strike for more than a year.

The continuing recovery from a small tornado that hit a poor Southern community shows how hard it may be to get over a big storm as the heart of hurricane season approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast.

An Alabama grand jury has indicted a 70-year-old man on capital murder charges in the fatal shooting deaths of three people at a church potluck dinner in June.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey says the state will proceed with plans to execute a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend decades ago, despite a request from the victim’s family to spare the inmate's life.

Authorities say an American Airlines flight headed with 56 people for Nashville, Tennessee, from Florida had to be diverted to Alabama after hitting severe turbulence.

Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons despite a bond sale falling more than $200 million short of expectations.

The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Louisiana must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power.

The Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation released 25 non-venomous, eastern indigo snakes into Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest on Saturday, according to a press release.

A witness to a shooting that killed three at an Alabama church says the gunman had sat by himself, drinking liquor and rejecting offers to join the others gathered at the potluck dinner.

Worship services are set to resume at the Alabama church where a gunman opened fire and killed three senior citizens at a potluck dinner recently.

Russian state television has shown video of two U.S. military veterans who went missing last week while fighting in Ukraine.

Police say a lone suspect fired on a small group meeting at a church near one of Alabama’s major cities, fatally wounding two people and injuring a third victim.

The families of two military veterans from Alabama who are missing in Ukraine have joined together to seek information about their whereabouts.

A Florida Silver Alert was issued Sunday for a missing 77-year-old man out of Umatilla, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The university leaders who oversee the College Football Playoff want the next format for determining a champion settled by this time next year.