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Alabama marks anniversary of racial bombing that sparked change

August 24, 2021 at 8:11 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Fifty years after a bomb ripped through a church basement, killing four girls and shocking a racially divided nation, the city of Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday...

UPS pilots warned of low altitude seven seconds before crash

August 25, 2021 at 6:31 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. government investigators looking into the crash of a UPS cargo plane said on Friday the pilots received a low altitude warning barely seven seconds before...

Bankrupt Alabama county makes another deal ahead of final plan

August 24, 2021 at 5:34 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's Jefferson County on Thursday approved another negotiated settlement covering $138 million of creditors' claims as the local government put finishing touches on a plan to...

In the South, civil rights groups dismayed by Supreme Court ruling on voter rights

August 24, 2021 at 5:21 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Civil rights groups across the South expressed bitter disappointment on Tuesday over a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a key part of the 1965...

Drug cartel debt collector proud of killing 30: Alabama police

August 24, 2021 at 4:47 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A self-styled collector for a Mexican drug cartel who confessed to more than 30 murders after he was arrested last month saw himself as a person...

Alabamans should claim more BP spill money: state official

August 24, 2021 at 4:19 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said the $500 million paid by BP Plc in compensation in the state for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Birmingham, Alabama

May 10, 2019 at 2:24 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Birmingham is honoring its turbulent past by commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, which killed four young girls, and...

Health officials probe deadly respiratory illness in Alabama

August 24, 2021 at 3:16 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week....

Health officials probe deadly respiratory illness in Alabama

May 14, 2019 at 4:45 a.m.

New legal chief of bankrupt Alabama County steps aside

August 24, 2021 at 1:52 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The Alabama Supreme Court justice chosen just last week to help steer the state's Jefferson County through the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history stepped down...

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