Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

Today we have a new medical treatment, some DNA evidence creating questions in a Death Row case, a law that kept a city from lowering a grocery tax, the NCAA tournament returning and more.

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Today we're going to go a little deeper into the dockworkers' strike. We'll hear from an Alabama union official with his take and let you know what some of the state folks on the other side of the issue are saying.

That'll be in a few minutes. First, we have results on a State House election, how long it took to finish a 650-mile kayak race, and how much Birmingham might add to its funding of the police.

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Today we have a vote for a state House seat, a VP debate with an Alabama voice in the spin room, our National Guard helping out in North Carolina and praise for our business climate.

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Ongoing impacts of Helene, efforts to purge the voter rolls, a 101-year-old building that's been condemned, and who was hanging out with Donald Trump at the Alabama-Georgia game.

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We have another nitrogen execution, a mayor in Washington, Pornhub's big block, and another listener takes the quiz.

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Today, momentum for a Glock-switch ban, Birmingham-Southern's buyer, a mayor's announcement and Donald Trump's very un-billionaire-like food order for Saturday's ballgame.

Today's guest, Joe Crowe, will tell us about Alabama Comic Con and the local rasslin' scene.

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Today we'll look at pregnancy-related arrests, absentee-ballot law and illegal shrimping. After the break we'll talk Pulitzer prizes, Birmingham crime and more with AL.com columnist John Archibald.

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On today's show: a big reward in that Birmingham shooting that killed four, the National Blue Ribbon Schools from Alabama, an offer to stay that a long-time university leader couldn't refuse.

Then we'll talk with statewide weather reporter Leigh Morgan about tropical storms and hurricanes and Alabama's possible impacts.

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We'll give you what we have on that weekend quadruple homicide in Birmingham. We also have a renamed southern tourist destination and alleged palmetto-berry bandits.

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Let's talk libraries, pollution and another city's migrant workers. We also have another listener here to take this week's quiz.

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