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After several tornadoes hit a trailer park in the northern Alabama town of Muscle Shoals on April 5, Haley Lowery joined efforts to help the roughly 20 displaced families, most of whom are Hispanic. Several of them are still displaced three weeks after the tornado, Lowery told AL.com this week. “There’s still a lot of families that are in hotel rooms,” she said.

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The Madison County Democratic Party, in a statement issued Wednesday night, described the police immunity bill currently in the legislative process as “life-threatening.”“Allowing extended immunity to police allows prejudice,” executive committee chair Shelia McNeil said about HB202, which has faced Democratic Party opposition at every step as it proceeds in the legislative process this year. “It is imperative to stand against this bill and advocate for those susceptible to injustice.”Rep.

2 weeks ago | al.com | Kayode Crown

This month, Allison Cornelius witnessed the legislative committee’s support for a bill that would limit dog-chaining and mandate better confinement conditions, and was full of high hopes. “Call me Pollyanna,” the Greater Birmingham Humane Society (GBHS) CEO told AL.com Thursday.

3 weeks ago | al.com | Kayode Crown

This week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, popularly called Mormons, released an exterior rendering of its planned temple for the Huntsville area. The temple would be the second in Alabama, following the opening of the Birmingham-area temple in Gardendale in 2000. The planned 30,000-square-foot Huntsville-area temple would be on 21 acres about 11 miles west of Huntsville. That structure will be nearly three times the size of the Birmingham-area temple, which is 10,700 square feet.

3 weeks ago | al.com | Kayode Crown

Dozens of sailors will descend on Huntsville beginning Monday for seven days of activities to mark the first-ever Navy week in the Rocket City. The kick-off is set for the U.S. Space & Rocket Center at 5:30 p.m. Monday, according to a release from the service Navy Office of Community Outreach, which also posted additional details on its website. Each year, Navy Week is held in 15 communities, targeting cities without a significant naval presence.