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Butch McIntosh, left, leads the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Honor Guard during the opening of a two-day festival in Oxford, Ala., on Friday, April 8, 2022. The Muscogee name for the event is "Reyicepes," or "We have come back," signifying an attempt by the nation to re-establish a presence in the Southeast nearly 200 years after ancestors were forced out of the region to make way for white settlers. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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Muscogee return South nearly 200 years after forced removal
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Fri,04/08/22-12:48PM , 519 Reads
OXFORD, Ala. (AP) — Native Americans whose ancestors were forced out of the Southeast almost 200 years ago during a purge that cleared the way for white settlers returned Friday for a two-day festival with a name that sums up its purpose: “We have come back.”
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This file photo shows passengers boarding an Amtrak train heading to New Orleans from Atlanta on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016. A federal board is hearing testimony on whether to let Amtrak resume passenger train service linking New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, over the objections of freight companies. A hearing began Monday, April 4, 2022 before the Surface Transportation Board. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Federal board ponders future of Gulf Coast passenger trains
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Mon,04/04/22-1:59PM , 201 Reads
A federal board began hearing testimony Monday on whether to let Amtrak resume passenger train service linking New Orleans and Alabama's main port city over the objections of freight companies.
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This image taken by NOAA Ocean Exploration in February 2022 shows what researchers believe to be the wreck of the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. The two-masted brig Industry went down in 1836 about 70 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. (NOAA Ocean Exploration via AP)

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Wreck of only sunken Gulf whaler discovered 190 years later
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Wed,03/23/22-7:05AM , 313 Reads
Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
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A partially collapsed home stands in Selma, Ala., on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Despite being known worldwide as a beacon of voting rights, the city and surrounding Dallas County had one of the worst voter turnouts in Alabama for the 2020 presidential election, and some are trying to increase voter participation. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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Voter turnout sagging in troubled voting rights hub of Selma
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Fri,03/04/22-12:04AM , 237 Reads
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Fewer and fewer people are voting in Selma, Alabama. And to many, that is particularly heartbreaking.
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