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Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo, third from left, stands during a news conference outside of the Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Uvalde police chief didn鈥檛 know about 911 calls from students, Texas official says

June 3, 2022 at 12:33 p.m.

The commander overseeing police during a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was not informed of panicked 911 calls coming from students trapped inside and it's unclear who...

Push to arm Ukraine putting strain on U.S. weapons stockpile

May 2, 2022 at 3:02 p.m.

Can the U.S. sustain the cadence of shipping vast amounts of arms to Ukraine while maintaining the healthy stockpile it may need if a new conflict erupts with North Korea,...

Wreck of last U.S. slave ship mostly intact on coast, researchers say

December 22, 2021 at 10:18 a.m.

Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast since it was scuttled in 1860, have made the surprising discovery that most...

FILE – This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 that it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. (AP Photo, File)

Details of Emmett Till killing still a mystery as probe ends

December 12, 2021 at 8:23 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago ended as it began, with a mystery that might never be solved....

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Civil rights pioneer seeks expungement of 鈥�55 arrest record

October 26, 2021 at 6:43 p.m.

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did...

Hurricane Ida’s aftermath: No power, no flights, scant drinking water

August 31, 2021 at 12:05 p.m.

Louisiana communities beginning the huge task of clearing debris and repairing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida are facing the depressing prospect of weeks without electricity in the stifling, late-summer...

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The final insult: Some dying of COVID while awaiting vaccine

April 3, 2021 at 12:47 p.m.

After months of hoping to receive a COVID-19 immunization and then weeks of fighting the illness after one never came, Air Force veteran Diane Drewes was down to her last...

Balky sign-ups complicate virus vaccinations for blind, deaf

March 27, 2021 at 12:01 p.m.

Unable to see, Carla McQuillan typically uses a program that converts the letters on a screen into audible words when she wants to read something online. The tool wouldn't work...

Cars and a motorcycle are underwater ...

Gulf Coast braces for second round of flooding in Sally鈥檚 wake; high water damages bridges and homes

September 17, 2020 at 11:36 a.m.

Homeowners and businesses along the soggy Gulf Coast began cleaning up Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Sally, even as the region braced for a delayed, second round of flooding.

At least 1 dead, hundreds rescued after Hurricane Sally

September 16, 2020 at 8:54 p.m.

Hurricane Sally lumbered ashore near the Florida-Alabama line Wednesday with 105 mph (165 kph) winds and rain measured in feet, not inches, swamping homes and forcing the rescue of hundreds...

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