Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

Start your morning with the latest news and stories from Alabama. Then, hear the stories behind the stories as Ike Morgan is joined by voices from the AL.com newsroom and beyond for deep dives on pressing topics, news quizzes and a whole lot of fun.

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December 8, 2022
Arrested for unpaid garbage bills; higher power bills next year; a cockfighting operation; a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Octavia Spencer.
4 min
627
December 7, 2022
We have the nation's highest emitter of greenhouse gases. Also, we offer a couple measures of how conservative we are - one based on legislative votes and one based on alleged doodles on some ballots.
4 min
628
December 6, 2022
Hot pursuit, execution review and the big football defensive awards.
4 min
629
December 5, 2022
More on the man who fell off a cruise ship and survived, a roundup of Alabama's bowls and bowl-bound teams, and a former Crimson Tide coach who has retired from coaching high school ball.
4 min
630
December 2, 2022
A Choctaw Indian tribe hoping for official federal recognition; the demolition of part of the old Huntsville High School, which dates back to 1928; where Alabamians are most likely to move should they leave the Yellowhammer State; and the newest Super 7 high school football state champs.
5 min
631
December 1, 2022
High school football finals, a new president for the Business Council of Alabama, and medical marijuana.
3 min
632
November 30, 2022
Court cases involving capital punishment and those Roy Moore allegations; a man accused of doing illegal business with Iran; the end of a run for an Alabama marathon.
4 min
633
November 29, 2022
Auburn has a new coach, and we'll catch up on the teacher shortage and the Artemis 1 mission.
4 min
634
November 28, 2022
Grading school districts, the sports weekend in review, and surprising a Waffle House waitress.
5 min
635
November 25, 2022
A guilty plea in the Thanksgiving Galleria shootings from a few years back, OSHA with some blunt words for Dollar General, and what a former coach said about Auburn.
4 min
636
November 24, 2022
A mayor weighed in on gun control, a dog spent weeks running around a neighborhood with a plastic container on his head, and the Poarch Creeks are against hosting their Thanksgiving Pow-Wow.
4 min
637
November 23, 2022
Amtrak, water bills and a lawsuit by an Auburn professor.
3 min
638
November 22, 2022
A temporary change in capital-punishment policy, a convicted murder who didn't show up to jail, and a whole lot of fast-food joints.
4 min
639
November 21, 2022
Campus speech, pregnant or not, a long way home, a big week in Alabama.
5 min
640
November 18, 2022
3 min
641
November 17, 2022
Capital punishment, solar energy and clean voter rolls
4 min
642
November 16, 2022
The Trump announcement, the aging Alabama State House and an Artemis launch.
4 min
643
November 15, 2022
The Methodist split, the USFL and straight-ticket voting.
4 min
644
November 14, 2022
Julio Jones, Magic City Classic, and a woman left waiting in a doctor's office.
4 min
645
November 11, 2022
The Alabama House Speaker, school name changes in Montgomery, and a turkey pardoning.
3 min
646
November 10, 2022
Election turnout, a tragic day at a high school, and another opioid settlement.
3 min
647
November 9, 2022
Some election highlights, Democratic in-fighting, and the passing of the Alabama band's Jeff Cook.
3 min
648
November 8, 2022
Execution autopsy, influenza outbreak, midterm elections.
5 min
649
November 7, 2022
A huge verdict against two doctors and a nurse, the age gap between citizens and elected officials, and our language on Twitter.
4 min
650
November 4, 2022
Diesel prices, electricity rates and some changes to the news media landscape.
4 min