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Recognition sought for church bombing victims
Nearly 50 years ago, white supremacists planted a bomb in a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four young girls preparing to worship, an act of ...
Eugene Patterson, 89, voice on civil rights, dies
Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement ...
1963 at 50: A year's tumult echoes still
A new year was just beginning — an extraordinary year, in which so much would change. Half a century ago, on Jan. 14, 1963, George Wallace took the ...
Fewer gun buyers seen in US mass shooting states
People who lived in the two states that saw the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012 were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the ...
Fewer excited gun-buyers in Colo. and Conn.
In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of ...
Ole Miss crushes Pitt 38-17 in BBVA Compass Bowl
Hugh Freeze needed only one year to make a winner out of a Mississippi team that was woeful in 2011. The coach noted with satisfaction that most ...
Bombing victim grateful for tragedy counseling
When Carolyn McKinstry hears that young survivors of a mass shooting like last month's in Connecticut are receiving counseling, she can speak to its ...
Alabama terror case could hinge on relationships
The terrorism case against an Alabama man accused of planning to wage violent jihad in Africa may hinge on just how well he knew a man on the FBI's ...
Armored backpacks and a rush on guns after Conn.
When Ken Larson's 1-year-old son starts school in a few years, he'll be carrying an armored backpack. After the Connecticut school shooting, Larson ...
Ala. police kill suspects after separate shootings
Police in Alabama say a SWAT team shot dead a man wielding an assault rifle following a chase touched off by a triple killing, hours after a separate ...
Man shoots himself inside Ala. federal courthouse
A worker who killed himself inside an Alabama federal courthouse Thursday went through an employee entrance to avoid a security check that could have ...
Left with tornado damage, Ala town blaming FEMA
Main Street in this old mill town looks about the same as it did the day after tornadoes killed about 250 people across Alabama a year and a half ago: ...
High court to take fresh look at voting rights law
The Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government's most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s.
High court to take new look at voting rights law
The Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government's most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s.