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? A winter storm for the Deep South is the story on this early January Sunday. Areas from New Mexico to Alabama are on alert as the system moves eastward. We will review the expected impacts for our state. ON THE WEATHER MAPS: In the upper atmosphere, we have a trough extending from the Upper Midwest to the Texas Panhandle. At the surface, cold high pressure dominates the middle of the country from Idaho to Colorado to Nebraska to Indiana. The upper trough is energizing a surface low over far S...

January 8, 2021 By Frank McCormack The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority has named Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey as the group’s chair for 2021. Ivey, who became governor in 2017 after former Gov. Robert Bentley resigned, is in the midst of her first full term as the state’s top elected official. She won a full term as governor by a wide margin in 2018. Ivey’s time in office has been marked by waterway development and...

MOLLY PARKER The Southern MURPHYSBORO — Mike Mills, who died this week at the age of 79, didn’t set out to seed a love of barbecue across the country, well beyond its roots in the South and parts of the Midwest, but that’s what he ended up doing. After graduating from Murphysboro Township High School in 1959, he enrolled in the first class in the Dental Technology program at Southern Illinois University. He earned an associate’s degree and moved to Elgin to work ...

By Bill Murray December 31, 2020 We continue to monitor the potential for severe weather across the state late tonight and Friday morning. The frontal system is moving more slowly still, which means we have pushed the timing back just a bit more. The big question is instability in this high-shear, low-instability event, and it now appears that the greatest instability will be limited to areas south of U.S. 80 from Demopolis to Montgomery to Phenix City. But there is still a low-end threat for t...

Scott Martin | January 1, 2021 @ 3:27 am Radar as of 3:11 am continues to show scattered to numerous light to moderate showers over North/Central Alabama, while the main storm activity continues to move through the east-central parts of Mississippi. We continue to have no strong or severe storms out there as no warnings are currently in effect. The latest Area Forecast Discussion from NWS Birmingham states… The severe weather threat continues to appear unimpressive with very little deep...

The last days of 1863 found the men from Hawkins County regrouping in Dalton, Georgia. They begin building huts on the side of a ridge west of the town for winter quarters. The men needed this seasonal break to heal and rebuild their numbers. The battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge had taken their toll. The 19th Tennessee only had roughly 100 men who were fit for duty. In fact, Gen. Otho Stralh’s entire brigade, which included the Hawkins Boys, was in bad shape. T...

Lifestyle By MARGARET CLAIRE LAYUG, GMA News Published December 26, 2020 11:33am One of the many things the COVID-19 pandemic had denied us of this year is movies. "Black Widow," "A Quiet Place Part II," the latest James Bond movie... Production delays and theater closures only prolonged that already-painful wait for sequels and scene-stealers, whose titles we couldnt get out of our heads. 2020 presented a torturous scenario for moviegoers with movie trailers released but with premiere...

Adventure, Comedy, Family In late 1967, a young orphaned boy (Jahzir Kadeem Bruno) goes to live with his loving Grandma (Octavia Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. The boy and his grandmother come across some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, so Grandma wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Anne Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from aro...

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LOOKING BACK | This week in West Alabama History: Dec. 21, 2020 The Tuscaloosa News 50 years ago this week • The Tuscaloosa City Commission chamber was packed with property owners protesting the rezoning of Northington campus from institutional to commercial. A proposed land swap between the University of Alabama and the state Mental Health Board hinged on the rezoning. The University wanted to obtain a block of land on University Boulevard in front of Bryce Hospital in exchange for the North...