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Central-Phenix City opens at No. 22 in national high school football rankings
Central-Phenix City ranked No. 22 in the nation the media composite top 25 rankings, MaxPreps announced this week. The composite rankings pair computer algorithms with rankings from national media outlets to rank the top teams in the country, according to the release from MaxPreps. A team must be included in the top 25 of rankings from at least two national outlets to be considered.
Kansas, 14 other state attorneys general file suit challenging health insurance for DACA recipients
TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of 15 states, including Iowa, in an attempt to stop President Joe Biden from expanding health care access to DACA recipients by making them eligible for participation in the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace. Kobach, a Republican who built a political career […]
Once facing execution, man convicted of grisly motel murder set for Alabama parole board hearing
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A man who tortured and murdered a woman at a Huntsville motel in 1983 is once again eligible for release from prison. Phillip Musgrove, who was born in 1953, was initially sentenced to death for the killing of Deborah Lynn Burks, whom he had dated over a period of several months.
Cyber school admissions questions raised; BCA on deck; tickets coming and more in this week’s OTR
Off The Record: The latest rumors and rumblings in North Alabama. Some parents are not happy the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering will begin accepting out-of-state students. This year, the highly-lauded cyber school accepted 106 in-state students out of 450 applications. Notably, tuition is free to attend the school that was previously only open to Alabama high schoolers. Out-of-state students would be paying $40,000 tuition to attend the public, residential magnet high school in Huntsville. An admissions official said the decision was “growth-based” and made by the board. “To date, we haven’t enrolled any students from out of state,” said a spokesman. “We aren’t promoting or recruiting out-of-state students. But if a current student moved, this would allow them to continue their education.”
Alabama murder suspect also faces charges in three murders in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY — Video above is from June when Drake entered a not guilty plea in Oklahoma. A third Oklahoma murder charge has been filed against an Alabama man who was arrested in Arkansas, according to a prosecutor. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, was charged Wednesday with murder in the...
Heat continues—busy hurricane season still expected
Hotter-than-normal temperatures will continue across the Gulf Coast through the weekend and the upcoming week (August 9-17). The average daily high and low temperatures for Bay St. Louis for this time of year are 89° and 74° based on the most recent 30-year (1991-2020) climatological averages calculated by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental information. Forecasters predict that daily high temperatures over the next week in Bay St. Louis and Waveland will be 8 to 10 degrees warmer-than-normal and lows will be 6 to 8 degrees warmer than the historical average lows.
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