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Miss Alabama 2025: Miss Hidden River, Miss Eastern Shore, Miss Hoover take preliminary wins
AL.com - Alabama
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June 26, 2025
Miss Alabama 2025 has yet to be crowned, but this year’s competition kicked off Wednesday night with a preliminary round in Birmingham. A total of 43 women are vying for the state title, along with scholarship money and the chance to move on to...
Alabama officials hope showing at 2025 Paris Air Show brings significant investment
Alabama Baptist
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June 19, 2025
A coalition of Alabama officials are hopeful that the state’s showing this year at the Paris Air Show will draw significant investment into the state’s aerospace and defense industries after the conclusion of the show’s first day Monday (June 16)....
Alabama State University breaks ground on new student apartment complex
WSFA 12 - Alabama
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June 18, 2025
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama State University is making room for more students who want to live on campus. The university held a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for two new apartment complexes they say will house hundreds of students....
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino Ditch Ambitious Plans To Move FBI’s Legendary Training Program to Alabama From Quantico
The New York Sun
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June 26, 2025
FBI leadership is abandoning its ambitious plans to host a pilot session of its vaunted National Academy Program at Huntsville, Alabama, instead of at Quantico, Virginia, where it is traditionally hosted, citing “insufficient infrastructure” at...
Women with Hoover ties named finalists in Miss Alabama service, STEM contests
Hoover Sun - Alabama
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June 25, 2025
Several women with Hoover connections this week were named finalists for the Community Service Award or STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) Award in the 2025 Miss Alabama competition. Miss Hoover Emma Terry was named one of eight...
Alabama’s universities energize aerospace recruitment at Paris Air Show
Made in Alabama
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June 18, 2025
PARIS — From deep-space exploration to next-gen aviation systems, Alabama is a national leader in the aerospace and defense sectors. But behind the rockets, aircraft and advanced weapons systems is a powerful network of research universities that...
Environmental Groups Successfully Petition Alabama to Update Water Toxicity Standards
EcoWatch
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June 25, 2025
People cool off in the water under the Little River Falls Bridge in Little River Canyon Falls Park near Ft. Payne, Alabama on July 13, 2021. Ron Buskirk / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an...
Man critically injured in accident at Alabama BF Goodrich plant not expected to survive
AL.com - Alabama
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June 25, 2025
A man was critically injured when he was exposed to high voltage electricity in an industrial accident at an Alabama manufacturing plant. The victim, authorities said Wednesday, is not expected to survive. The accident happened on Sunday at BF...
Carson Champion of Valley to compete in Miss Alabama Competition
Valley Times-News - Alabama
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June 25, 2025
Carson Champion of Valley to compete in Miss Alabama Competition Published 9:30 am Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Ten University of Alabama students are among this year’s field of 43 contestants set to compete for the title of Miss Alabama June 23-28 at...
Legal Age In Alabama To Leave Kids Home Alone
95.3 The Bear - Alabama
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June 26, 2025
What a great question! One of the biggest challenges all of us parents and grandparents face during the summer is what to do with the kids when they can't go with us and we have nobody to look after them. WHAT DO WE DO OVER THE SUMMER??? Work must...
VIDEO: Research on role of drusen deposits in AMD may enable earlier intervention
Healio News
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June 25, 2025
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Alabama won’t track student outcomes under CHOOSE Act – parents will
Alabama Daily News
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June 18, 2025
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – For more than a decade, Alabama lawmakers have pushed public schools for more accountability: More testing, more transparency and a sharper focus on student outcomes. But under the state’s new CHOOSE Act school choice program,...
Things to do across the Midlands: SC7 invites public to hike or paddle during visits to Poinsett, Swan Lake and Sparkleberry Swamp next week; library hosts summer family events
The Item - South Carolina
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To make a submission to our events list, email pressrelease@theitem.com with EVENTS in the subject line. SUMTER COUNTY Join Temple Sinai and Sumter Museum for their Curious George book readings this summer. The final reading will be on Saturday,...
Iowa's Jada Gymafi drops 3-word reaction as former teammate Caitlin Clark drafts first WNBA All-Star team
Sportskeeda
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July 9, 2025
Former Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark has missed five games with a left groin injury in what has turned out to be a start-stop season for the Indiana Fever star. Off the court, Clark received the most-ever WNBA All-Star votes and will captain...
Report: Higher degrees raise earnings, but Alabama struggles to keep graduates
Alabama Baptist
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June 24, 2025
Alabama’s college graduates earn significantly more income as their level of education rises, but the state struggles to retain many of its highest-paid graduates to other states, according to a recent report from the Alabama Commission on Higher...
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino Want Huntsville, Alabama, To Be the New Quantico for the National Academy: They’re Meeting Resistance
The New York Sun
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June 25, 2025
The FBI director, Kash Patel, and the deputy director, Daniel Bongino, want to host a pilot session of the bureau’s vaunted National Academy class at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama instead of at Quantico, in what skeptics believe is an idea...
Opinion | Alabama education policy needs improvements
Alabama Political Reporter
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June 25, 2025
While I can personally attest to some of the drawbacks of getting older, I am learning that there are some obvious benefits—besides qualifying for the “Senior” discount at Burger King. Time does provide the opportunity to see and experience more...
Scientists hope 17-year cicadas can unlock the mysteries of toxic mercury
WBUR - Massachusetts
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A strange whistling hum fills the air in Bourne. It's a tell-tale sign that hundreds of periodical cicadas are all around, in the trees and crawling up bushes, hoping to attract a mate after 17 years underground. The bugs are part of Brood XIV,...
The bizarre tale of Alabama’s marble tombstone castle
AL.com - Alabama
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June 25, 2025
Did you know that Sylacauga, Ala., was once home to what was likely (hopefully?) the world’s only service station made of tombstones? Yep. It was even featured in the Ripley’s Believe It or Not newspaper feature. Called the Marble Castle, the...
Alabama student using scholarship to support water conservation
The Wetumpka Herald - Alabama
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A Munson Foundation scholarship at the University of Alabama is allowing a 2022 Wetumpka High School graduate to discover a possible career. A 2022 Wetumpka High School graduate, Ella Kate Baker, took advantage of the opportunity through an...