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A parade rider throws beads on Joe Cain Day during Mardi Gras in Mobile, Ala., Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Joe Cain Day, named for a clerk who started Mobile's modern Mardi Gras by dressing up and parading through town in the late 1860s after the Civil War, roared back to life after taking a year off because of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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MoonPies and Merry Widows: Mardi Gras hits Mobile, Alabama
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Sun,02/27/22-4:58PM , 322 Reads
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s port city danced and squealed to the prime event of its Carnival season on Sunday, a quirky bash honoring the man credited with helping make the nation’s first Mardi Gras celebration what it is — a smaller, toned-down version of New Orleans' mega-party.
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The house were Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953 near Marion, Ala., is shown on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Long vacant, it's not open to visitors and doesn't have a sign or historical marker. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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Historic Coretta Scott home where she wed MLK now forgotten
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Thu,02/10/22-6:32AM , 280 Reads
MARION, Ala. (AP) — Bullet holes pock a rusted mailbox outside the vacant home where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953. Part of the old wooden structure has collapsed, as have nearby utility buildings.
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Gary Phillips uses a brush and a vacuum to clean the Apollo 16 lunar spacecraft at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Following a break in routine maintenance because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum is sprucing up the antique spaceship before events marking the 50th anniversary of its flight in 1972. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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Workers clean Apollo 16 spaceship ahead of 50th anniversary
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Wed,02/09/22-1:00AM , 183 Reads
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The Apollo 16 capsule is dusty all these decades after it carried three astronauts to the moon. Cobwebs cling to the spacecraft. Business cards, a pencil, money, a spoon and even a tube of lip balm litter the floor of the giant case that protects the space antique in a museum.
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This undated file photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Matthew Reeves. Late Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the state of Alabama to execute Reeves, an inmate who contended that an intellectual disability combined with the state’s inattention cost him a chance to avoid lethal injection and choose a new method. Reeves was condemned for killing a man during a robbery in 1996. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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Man executed for 1996 killing after Supreme Court clears way
By JAY REEVES - Associated Press
Thu,01/27/22-11:45PM , 171 Reads
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection for a 1996 murder on Thursday after a divided U.S. Supreme Court sided with the state and rejected defense claims the man had an intellectual disability that cost him a chance to choose a less “torturous,” yet untried, execution method.
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