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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.

Ongoing Helen impacts, Trump at Alabama-Georgia

7 mins; September 30, 2024

Quiz Day! Plus, a nitrogen execution and Pornhub's block

22 mins; September 27, 2024

News updates, Comic Cons, local rasslin'

36 mins; September 26, 2024

Talking Birmingham and crime with John Archibald

33 mins; September 25, 2024

Big reward; tropical weather

14 mins; September 24, 2024

Birmingham homicides on a record pace

6 mins; September 23, 2024

Politics of libraries and migrant workers ... and another quiz!

20 mins; September 20, 2024

What they're saying in Sylacauga (about the Haitian migrants)

26 mins; September 19, 2024

IVF, falling pines, STAR IDs and ... eating clay?

9 mins; September 18, 2024

Trump mulls Tide game; pediatrician issues continue

6 mins; September 17, 2024

UA enrollment, flood rescues, Tua

5 mins; September 16, 2024

Unusual crimes and the quiz

18 mins; September 13, 2024

Tuberville vs. Pentagon; remembering a mall celebrity

7 mins; September 12, 2024

Debating IVF; Hurricane Francine effects

19 mins; September 11, 2024

Vaping and smoking and much more

13 mins; September 10, 2024

Financial worries, immigration concerns

6 mins; September 09, 2024

Freed pastor, arrested sheriff, and the weekly quiz

15 mins; September 06, 2024

Vaping in public venues, U.S. Steel sale, Facebook Marketplace violence

6 mins; September 05, 2024

Presidential race polling '24

23 mins; September 04, 2024

A sheriff wants tweak to 'permitless carry'

5 mins; September 03, 2024

Plodding toward medical marijuana

4 mins; September 02, 2024

Quiz day! Also, a union arrest and the Bart Starr home

16 mins; August 30, 2024

Cops and courts (and more)

4 mins; August 29, 2024

Fighting recidivism; talking college football

32 mins; August 28, 2024

The state of debates

11 mins; August 27, 2024

Prep football tragedy; pine beetle epidemic

6 mins; August 26, 2024

Community colleges, unusual homicide, news quiz

17 mins; August 23, 2024

Real-estate market; shark-attack victim's homecoming

5 mins; August 22, 2024

Delta 8 and legal trouble over a legal product

21 mins; August 21, 2024

DNC, false fall, sandwiches

13 mins; August 20, 2024

More rules for schools

4 mins; August 19, 2024

After the news, a listener takes the Alabama news quiz

16 mins; August 16, 2024

More tension in troubled Tarrant and the Carrot Top story

7 mins; August 15, 2024

How did your child's school perform on state tests last year?

5 mins; August 14, 2024

A conversation with Slash

24 mins; August 13, 2024

Railcar explosion, Bubba update: Down in Alabama

5 mins; August 12, 2024

Hoover coaches, prisoner swap, Roy Wood Jr.

15 mins; August 09, 2024

School clothing restricts and future ACTs

18 mins; August 08, 2024

Reunion at an Alabama plantation

23 mins; August 07, 2024

Alabama vs. invasive weed

6 mins; August 06, 2024

More state/national Democrat division

5 mins; August 05, 2024

How will national politics affect District 2?

32 mins; August 02, 2024

Amtrak and South Alabama

19 mins; August 01, 2024

Ex-lawmakers get prison for kickback scheme

7 mins; July 31, 2024

DEI; traffic cameras; a colorful prohibition-era story

9 mins; July 30, 2024

Decades of Choccolocco-area cleanup

5 mins; July 29, 2024

Roy Moore joins the struggle for inmate's parole

34 mins; July 26, 2024

Trash talk, an early census, university presidential earnings

4 mins; July 25, 2024

DEI; a big bull shark; Mark Kennedy

4 mins; July 24, 2024

Possible state intervention (in police leadership ... and a school district)

30 mins; July 23, 2024

Biden, Harris and Alabama politicians

5 mins; July 22, 2024

A fat spill - literally

31 mins; July 19, 2024

Smart phones/anxiety, District 2 surprise? Down in Alabama

8 mins; July 18, 2024

Alabama's greatest singers

30 mins; July 17, 2024

Britt's return and Saban's, too

9 mins; July 16, 2024

Weekend shootings (in Pennsylvania and Alabama)

4 mins; July 15, 2024

Cabinet pay, inmate's autopsy, restaurant's closing

16 mins; July 12, 2024

Remembering an Alabama insane asylum

11 mins; July 11, 2024

Test scores; lawmaker arrest; wild crime roundup

11 mins; July 10, 2024

Medical AI; Alabama's MLB all-stars

5 mins; July 09, 2024

Who's been hiring in Alabama

6 mins; July 08, 2024

Hackers targeted Alabama student data. Should you be concerned?

4 mins; July 05, 2024

Alabama: Where American democracy was reborn

6 mins; July 04, 2024

A peek behind the scenes at an Alabama marijuana facility

4 mins; July 03, 2024

Somebody advertised WHAT using an airplane at Orange Beach?

5 mins; July 02, 2024

Northern Beltline construction underway ... again

6 mins; July 01, 2024

Nick Saban the advisor

19 mins; June 28, 2024

The cops and crime episode with Carol Robinson

22 mins; June 27, 2024

Will the heat wave end soon? Weather with Leigh

19 mins; June 26, 2024

Who's the mayor? Small-town scrap may have an end

26 mins; June 25, 2024

Let's remember one more Black Baron - the country legend

10 mins; June 24, 2024

MLB at Rickwood highlights; weekly quiz quiz

20 mins; June 21, 2024

Rough surf, out-of-state manhunt, 10 Commandments

6 mins; June 20, 2024

Remembering Willie Mays and the Rickwood connections

29 mins; June 19, 2024

Social-studies changes; Isaiah Buggs; bodies at the zoo

9 mins; June 18, 2024

Bump-stock ping-pong at the federal level

5 mins; June 17, 2024

SPLC layoffs, hospital ransomware, and a 7-year quiz

19 mins; June 14, 2024

Checking in on the Southern Baptists

6 mins; June 13, 2024

Roy Wood Jr. on the "Road to Rickwood"

25 mins; June 12, 2024

Shark attack updates, Coral Reefers, UAB autopsies

11 mins; June 11, 2024

7th-anniversary news updates

13 mins; June 10, 2024

Will Birmingham turn a prank into a reality?

4 mins; June 07, 2024

Alabama is behind on its unemployment payments

5 mins; June 06, 2024

Bomb threats and book bans

4 mins; June 05, 2024

June 4, 2024

4 mins; June 04, 2024

Birmingham-Southern's last hurrah

6 mins; June 03, 2024

News updates, then John Archibald takes our quiz

23 mins; May 31, 2024

The man who wouldn't apologize to police

6 mins; May 30, 2024

Boating danger, anti-union claims, MLB at Rickwood

7 mins; May 29, 2024

The loud buzzing sound of southern summertime

8 mins; May 28, 2024

So long to the Elba Hydroelectric Dam

4 mins; May 27, 2024

Coal ash, hurricanes and the quiz

27 mins; May 24, 2024

Ranking Alabama, and what is middle class anyway?

17 mins; May 23, 2024

Alabama food to try this summer

30 mins; May 22, 2024

What to expect at schools after this Legislative session

22 mins; May 21, 2024

Alabama: No to union, yes to barbecue

5 mins; May 20, 2024

Child labor, police shortage and the quiz

20 mins; May 17, 2024

Snakes and birds make the news

6 mins; May 16, 2024

Preserving Alabama river land

25 mins; May 15, 2024

Lawmakers warn Mexico

5 mins; May 14, 2024

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