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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.

Flood heartbreak, UAW, firework injuries

5 mins; July 07, 2025

Executions and explosions

4 mins; July 04, 2025

School programs, Medicaid, lightning strikes

5 mins; July 03, 2025

State and federal lawmaking updates

8 mins; July 02, 2025

Africanized bees and murders that weren't

21 mins; July 01, 2025

The Amphitheaters Coca-Cola and Orion

38 mins; June 30, 2025

DNA, Alabama and a death-penalty case

31 mins; June 27, 2025

Immigration raid, Scooby burglar, Unsung Alabama

22 mins; June 26, 2025

Some hurricane-season vocabulary

21 mins; June 25, 2025

National defense; girls track star

5 mins; June 24, 2025

Heat wave, crime notes

5 mins; June 23, 2025

Baseball legends are rallying

5 mins; June 20, 2025

Nippon-U.S. Steel; more Unsung Alabama

21 mins; June 19, 2025

Updates on Golden Dome and the moon race

25 mins; June 18, 2025

All these lists, rankings and grades

12 mins; June 17, 2025

'26 election, cockfighting bust, SI model concern

6 mins; June 16, 2025

Next big change to college player pay

19 mins; June 13, 2025

Fort Rucker, early quadruplets, Unsung Alabama

25 mins; June 12, 2025

Alabama's fifth nitrogen execution

5 mins; June 11, 2025

Snakes to watch for in Alabama

13 mins; June 10, 2025

SCOTUS case; newspaper's end

6 mins; June 09, 2025

Tuberville on OBBB; Alabama News Quiz

13 mins; June 06, 2025

Golden Dome, Water Works and more

6 mins; June 05, 2025

Acquiring public information shouldn't be this hard

24 mins; June 04, 2025

Tuberville on Dems' legal threat

5 mins; June 03, 2025

Vaping rules; meteorology calendar

4 mins; June 02, 2025

Updates on Space Command and the Senate race

8 mins; May 30, 2025

Who'll replace Tuberville in the Senate?

5 mins; May 29, 2025

Tuberville in governor's race; another gator tale

6 mins; May 28, 2025

Proposed parole guidelines

5 mins; May 27, 2025

Boat-crash suit; newsman's death; college baseball

4 mins; May 26, 2025

106-year-old prisoner; game wardens; gators

7 mins; May 23, 2025

Imprisoned snake handler; naming of Ross Clark Circle.

11 mins; May 22, 2025

Voter fraud, Saban's Emmy, Big Bob Gibson

7 mins; May 21, 2025

Election 2026; Patel's FBI; features reporter Bob Carlton

44 mins; May 20, 2025

Alabama's growth, coastal airport, ballpark upgrades

6 mins; May 19, 2025

Arthur Bremer, the Gulf, police drones and a quiz

17 mins; May 16, 2025

"Backing the Blue," fluoride update, moonlighting mayor

6 mins; May 15, 2025

Session's last day; obesity rankings; celebs at Regions

7 mins; May 14, 2025

I-65 rocket plans

15 mins; May 13, 2025

More on the 'swatting' of Tuberville

6 mins; May 12, 2025

Detained student opts for deportation

7 mins; May 09, 2025

58 felony cases, tossed

7 mins; May 08, 2025

Regulating hemp-derived products

7 mins; May 07, 2025

Ivey's updated priorities; fluoride or no fluoride?

7 mins; May 06, 2025

Coming: Shark-attack alerts

5 mins; May 05, 2025

The president, a pastor and a quiz

24 mins; May 02, 2025

Budgets, termites and more

7 mins; May 01, 2025

Saban at grad event; kangaroo on the loose

9 mins; April 30, 2025

A turkey-hunting story

12 mins; April 29, 2025

Ella Langley, W. Kamau Bell, Alexis Herman, southern accent

6 mins; April 28, 2025

Tuberville, Amtrak, Mullet Toss and the quiz

19 mins; April 25, 2025

Adam Schwartz of "It's a Southern Thing"

42 mins; April 24, 2025

Ready for execution; more CHOOSE Act money?

6 mins; April 23, 2025

The pope, the president and a real-estate surge

5 mins; April 22, 2025

Chicken parts, HBCU classic, George McMillan

16 mins; April 21, 2025

GOP hardball; hurricane-season predictions

20 mins; April 18, 2025

A Goat Hill roundup and more

7 mins; April 17, 2025

Pharmacies, Spann's fans, Jubilee City

11 mins; April 16, 2025

Anti-DEI-compliant in Alabama

6 mins; April 15, 2025

Legislative session: The home stretch

22 mins; April 14, 2025

Talladega College, water park, review quiz

21 mins; April 11, 2025

The trafficking of bird mounts

6 mins; April 10, 2025

More news out of (uh-oh) Tarrant

6 mins; April 09, 2025

The Trump tariffs and Alabama

24 mins; April 08, 2025

Tracking recyclables and killing the lottery (again)

17 mins; April 07, 2025

Session notes: Gambling, local spat, students' phones

6 mins; April 04, 2025

A new state employee benefit

5 mins; April 03, 2025

Marrazzo's leave, lottery hopes, obese cities

6 mins; April 02, 2025

Don't take your guns to Redstone

6 mins; April 01, 2025

Auburn in Final Four; low-speed tractor chase

6 mins; March 31, 2025

Student's detention, Trump's appointee, Tide's 3s

6 mins; March 28, 2025

Baseball movies we loved

59 mins; March 27, 2025

More small-town politics

7 mins; March 26, 2025

Greenland's future and a theater's closing

7 mins; March 25, 2025

Spelling champ, rabid fox, Frog Eye

6 mins; March 24, 2025

From chemtrails to cougars

5 mins; March 21, 2025

Prisons, paroles and Death Row

34 mins; March 20, 2025

Starting a small business?

6 mins; March 19, 2025

Growing and shrinking counties

7 mins; March 18, 2025

Assessing the damage

9 mins; March 17, 2025

Weather outlook: March 15, 2025

7 mins; March 15, 2025

Weather, schools takeover, stealing from a church

6 mins; March 14, 2025

Trade wars: EU targets ... Alabama?

7 mins; March 13, 2025

Bill "Bubba" Bussey on his new podcast and more

41 mins; March 12, 2025

Is Birmingham turning a corner?

6 mins; March 11, 2025

Ukraine money, Tombigbee origin

7 mins; March 10, 2025

Education Department cuts and Alabama

6 mins; March 07, 2025

Another Ten Commandments debate

5 mins; March 06, 2025

Coming soon: More of Harper Lee's work

5 mins; March 05, 2025

SS United States finally arrives

5 mins; March 04, 2025

An actress's return, and Opp's namesake

6 mins; March 03, 2025

February 28, 2025

5 mins; February 28, 2025

February 27, 2025

4 mins; February 27, 2025

Quite the rap sheet

6 mins; February 26, 2025

Pardon czar; pharmacists' stand; bad decisions

7 mins; February 25, 2025

Miss America Abbie Stockard, back in Alabama

16 mins; February 24, 2025

Suicide prevention, minimum wage and a phone scam

7 mins; February 21, 2025

Are you Alabourgeoisie?

6 mins; February 20, 2025

Politics and IVF, NASA, the state VA

7 mins; February 19, 2025

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