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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 , 358 Reads
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Fewer and fewer people are voting in Selma, Alabama. And to many, that is particularly heartbreaking.
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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 , 333 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 , 363 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 , 253 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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