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In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, file photo, men walk past a Confederate monument in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham, Ala. The Alabama Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, upheld a state law barring cities from moving, or altering, Confederate monuments. Justices on Wednesday reversed a circuit judge’s ruling that declared the law unenforceable because it violated the free speech rights of local communities. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

Top Alabama court upholds Confederate monument protections

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

Suit: Guards attacked student at historically black school

By JEFF MARTIN - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019 photo, schoolchildren gather near a fake chimney meant as a nesting structure for chimney swifts in Birmingham, Ala. Similar structures are being built from New England to Texas as habitat for the birds, which won't use regular birdhouses and are being left homeless by the destruction or capping of chimneys in the eastern United States. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Fake chimneys for birds that need vertical hollows to rest

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and JAY REEVES - Associated Press

This undated photo released by the FBI shows 3-year-old Kamille McKinney, who police say has been missing since she was abducted while attending a birthday party on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Birmingham, Ala. (FBI via AP)

The Latest: Reward increases for missing Alabama girl

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Former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden, center, left, speaks with an attendee as he joins Sen. Doug Jones and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin at a wreath laying after a service at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Visiting the black church bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in the civil rights era, Democratic presidential candidate Biden said Sunday the country hasn't "relegated racism and white supremacy to the pages of history" as he framed current tensions in the context of the movement's historic struggle for equality. (Ivana Hrynkiw/The Birmingham News via AP)

Joe Biden on racism: Whites ‘can never fully understand’

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2016 file photo, a fog of smoke covers the trees near an explosion of a Colonial Pipeline in Helena, Ala. A new federal lawsuit accuses a pipeline company of failing to tell work crews where a major U.S. pipeline was underground before they ruptured the line, touching off a deadly explosion. The estate of Anthony Willingham, an Alabama worker who died in the blast, this week filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline Co. and a partner company. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Lawsuit: Poor information about pipeline led to fatal blast

By JEFF MARTIN and JAY REEVES - Associated Press

In this image taken from Polsat TV video, a man holds a balloon he found in Troszkowo, Poland, Tuesday Sept. 10, 2019. A young English woman has been surprised after she released a helium balloon in Birmingham earlier this month to commemorate the anniversary of her father’s death. The balloon ended up traveling more than 1,000 miles (1,700 kilometers), crossing land and sea to land in a field in northern Poland. (Polsat TV via AP)

Balloon sent in memory of British dad lands in Polish field

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, left, listens as Kenneth Graham, director of NOAA's National Hurricane Center, on screen, gives an update during a briefing about Hurricane Dorian at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, in Washington, at right of Trump is Acting Administrator Pete Gaynor, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler, and Neil Jacobs, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Weather chief thanks Alabama employees for Dorian forecast

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

President Donald Trump talks with reporters after receiving a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

NOAA ripped for backing Trump on Alabama

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

President Donald Trump looks at his notes during a briefing on Hurricane Dorian in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

NOAA assailed for defending Trump’s Hurricane Dorian claim

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

Local lynching memorial proposed in Birmingham

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Sheriff accused of scamming church, food bank pleads guilty

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This July 21, 2012 photo, shows the exterior of the U.S. Courthouse for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The state of Alabama is asking a federal appeals court to toss a lawsuit accusing lawmakers of racial discrimination for blocking a minimum-wage increase in majority-black Birmingham. At issue in arguments scheduled Tuesday, June 25, 2019, before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a 2016 law requiring every city in Alabama to have the same minimum wage. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

The Latest: Judges question Alabama minimum wage suit

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This July 21, 2012 photo, shows the exterior of the U.S. Courthouse for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The state of Alabama is asking a federal appeals court to toss a lawsuit accusing lawmakers of racial discrimination for blocking a minimum-wage increase in majority-black Birmingham. At issue in arguments scheduled Tuesday, June 25, 2019, before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a 2016 law requiring every city in Alabama to have the same minimum wage. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Judges question basis for Alabama minimum wage suit

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

A security guard closes a gate at the construction site of a new clinic that is being built by Planned Parenthood in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday, June 13, 2019. The organization is working on the project despite a new state law that virtually bans abortion in Alabama. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Planned Parenthood builds Ala. clinic despite abortion law

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2011, file photo, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr smiles during an NFL football news conference in Dallas. Starr, the Green Bay Packers quarterback and catalyst of Vince Lombardi's powerhouse teams of the 1960s, has died. He was 85. The Packers announced Sunday, May 26, 2019, that Starr had died, citing his family. He had been in failing health since suffering a serious stroke in 2014. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Bart Starr remembered at memorial in his native Alabama

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Thousands of Baptists head to Birmingham for convention

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Civil War group to rededicate marker for Union soldiers

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FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2013, file photo, Chris and Maxine McNair, the parents of of Denise McNair, watch as the sculpture is revealed at the unveiling ceremony for &quot;The Four Little Girls,&quot; a sculpture memorial honoring Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley in Birmingham, Ala. Chris McNair, the father of one of four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, died Wednesday, May 8, 2019. He was 93. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager, File)

Funeral for bombing victim’s dad in church where she died

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

Pastor missing during hike found in Alabama woods

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