SpaceX knocked out a midnight launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, but has a midnight Monday launch on tap from Kennedy Space Center to cap off a record year for the Space Coast.
Georgia says football coach Kirby Smart’s father died early Saturday of complications from hip surgery after falling in New Orleans ahead of the Sugar Bowl. Sonny Smart fell while walking on New Year’s Eve and fractured his hip. He was hospitalized and had hip surgery at Ochsner Medical Center, where he died surrounded by his family. A longtime high school football coach in Alabama and Georgia, Sonny Smart coached Kirby when he was in high school. He became a regular at his son’s games when Kirby became head coach at his alma mater in 2016.
Echoing through the air, the call of thousands of cranes — some endangered — at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge serves as a beacon to bird watchers.
From celebrating endangered birds to listening to award-winning musicians to catching Moon Pies, a variety of events that will educate, amuse and entertain await north Alabamians in 2025.
With temperatures expected to drop below freezing next week, the Salvation Army of Decatur is opening a temporary inclement weather shelter on Monday where guests will be fed hot meals and given a place to sleep.
A dog struck by a car after running away on New Year’s Day due to fireworks, according to its owner, died overnight in the custody of Decatur Animal Services after the shelter’s policies prevented the dog’s after-hours release.
The year 2025 promises to be a year in which projects already started move toward completion and an election year for the city of Decatur, city officials said.
"The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America," by Jeffrey Rosen, (Simon & Schuster, NY), 2024, $28.99 hardcover, 355 pages with notes and index.
Call 256-340-2433 if you want to review a listed book. Books must be picked up Monday-Wednesday.
The Morgan County probate office issued the following marriage licenses Dec. 23-30.
To place a notice in “Meetings,†call 256-340-2433 or mail to P.O. Box 2213, Decatur, AL 35609-2213, ATTN: Meetings; fax to 256-340-2392; or email to [email protected]. Please submit items a week in advance.
JOHANNESBURG — At the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg, farm workers are busy tilling the soil and planting tomatoes and lettuce. Despite the hive of activity, there is silence around the park.
A strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States as frigid air escapes the Arctic, plunging as far south as Florida, meteorologists forecast.
MONTGOMERY — A state autopsy has ruled that a Black man found hanging in an abandoned Alabama home in late September died by suicide — a conclusion that contradicts a private autopsy commissioned by his family, which found no definitive evidence he died by suicide.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean investigators left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a near-six-hour standoff on Friday during which he defied their attempt to detain him. It's the latest confrontation in a political crisis that has paralyzed South Korean po…
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to expand the state's involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to compel more mentally ill people into treatment, following a series of violent crimes in the New York City subway system.
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