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The judge granted a request to skip a decision about temporarily halting the data center's construction and move on to whether the project should end permanently. The next hearing is set for March.
This Weekend Today
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Here's your round up of events to check out in Birmingham this weekend from BHMSTR's Sam George. The Rivals of Amziah King — Sidewalk, starts Friday. Grief Sucks: A One Man Show by KevOnStage — Lyric Theatre, 7:30 pm. Y’all Things Considered: Live — Saturn, August 15, 7pm.
Commentaries from Sean of the South
We've made changes to our program schedules. Your favorite show is still waiting for you, but it may be at a different time or perhaps a different day.
Gulf States Newsroom
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Photo courtesy of New Orleans City ArchivesTanner Riley has spent years searching for his grandfather's NOPD service records. What he found revealed something deeper about memory, history and the people willing to preserve both. -
Avery White/WWNOResearch shows that many children don’t read enough and are behind when they return to school. One way to encourage more reading, experts say, is to let them read what they want.
News from NPR
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The left-handed MLB pitcher was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, an injury that had been a death knell for pitchers' careers up to that point. -
On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces. -
Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it wasn't done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts. -
Hundreds of migrants have again attempted to cross from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Ceuta. This time, Moroccan officials fended them off, raising new questions about the crossing of July 30. -
A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration's continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.
