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  • News / Weather tornado

    Tornado touches down in northern Alabama

    A reported tornado briefly touched down Friday afternoon in northern Alabama, causing damage and scares days after twisters proved deadly in Texas.

  • News Alabama barge explosion

    Fire and explosions on fuel barge in Alabama

    Fires burning aboard a pair of barges on Alabama’s Mobile River died down early Thursday, hours after a series of explosions loud enough to be heard 20 miles away.

  • News University Place Elementary School photo from WHNT

    No criminal charges for school worker who hit students with belt

    A former Alabama elementary school employee accused of beating a second-grader with a belt will not face criminal charges.

  • Health / News Stethoscope

    Iowa suspends former Clinton doctor’s license for unprofessional conduct

    A former Clinton, Iowa doctor has lost his Iowa medical license after the state found him guilty of unprofessional conduct.

  • News Alabama hostage standoff ends: Boy safe, kidnapper dead

    Alabama hostage standoff ends

    Six days after it began, a standoff with a man who took a five-year-old hostage has ended.

  • News police lights3

    A long week in Alabama town as hostage standoff drags on

    It’s been a long week in Midland City, Alabama since Jimmy Lee Dykes reportedly boarded a school bus, shot the driver and took a little boy hostage.

  • News photo of the horse by Trudy Lott provided by WHNT

    Woman sees image in horse’s coat

    A woman in Alabama says her horse’s coat shows an image of a child and a praying man.