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Bill would give some Alabama inmates under habitual offender law chance for new sentence AL.com 1 hr ago © Trisha Crain The Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala. Russell Housman, serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole in the Alabama prison system, asks for people to be open-minded about what he and others say are inequities in the state’s Habitual Felony Offender Act (HFOA). Housman’s step-father, Danny Dodson, is trying to convince legislators to fix what Dodson also sees as an inequitable law. Dodson has made some progress. A bill in the Legislature would allow so...

Outbreak Alabama: Journalists reflect on a year of covering COVID Updated Mar 12, 2021; Posted Mar 12, 2021 AL.com journalists Joe Songer and Ivana Hrynkiw covering the opening of Buc-ee's in Leeds in January 2021. They're two of 13 journalists with Alabama Media Group who reflected on covering the COVID-19 pandemic for the past year on the "Outbreak Alabama" podcast. (Joe Songer) Facebook Share We’ve reached the 1-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching Alabama. The state has had more than 500,000 cases, and more than 10,000 deaths. And as of this week, more than 1 million COVID vacc...