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Opelika and Phenix City Career Center collaborate to launch job fair
The Opelika Career Center and the Phenix City Career Center are now collaborating with the Phenix City Housing Authority for a hiring event. Various private companies and ...
Columbus man pleads guilty in multi-million dollar “card-cracking” scheme
A Columbus man that was a part of one of the city’s largest check fraud schemes has been sentenced to prison. Drekian Dowdell, 32, was identified as the ringleader of ...
Fiery Air India crash kills 241 people aboard, leaving 1 survivor, airline says
An Air India plane bound for London crashed in a residential area of Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people on board, the airline said. One passenger ...
Trump administration tells immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela they have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to ...
China grants rare earth export permits after US trade talks, offers relief but uncertainty persists
The high-level negotiations over China’s export controls of rare earths is giving U.S. businesses some relief, even though it may be only for now. China has approved “a ...
GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says
The Republican tax bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest ...
John B. Amos Cancer Center to host Cancer Survivors Day Brunch
The John B. Amos Cancer Center will host a free brunch in celebration of cancer survivors and to serve as an inspiration to those diagnosed. The Cancer Survivors Day Brunch ...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer complains about trial secrecy as a famous rapper’s name goes unmentioned
A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs protested the rising tide of secrecy at the hip-hop icon’s federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Thursday after Combs and the public ...
Formal documents approved that would allow NHL to return to the metro-Atlanta area
The Forsyth County Commission on Wednesday approved a proposal that would allow the National Hockey League to return to Atlanta. ‘The Gathering at South ...
House passes bill to to combat fentanyl trafficking, sending it to Trump’s desk
The House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Thursday that would solidify federal policies cracking down on the synthetic opioid fentanyl and its analogs in a bid by ...
US faith leaders opposed to ICE raids counsel nonviolent resistance and lead by example
When the Rev. Edward Anderson rallied in Los Angeles this week against the Trump administration’s intensifying immigration crackdown, he positioned himself between law enforcement and his ...
Columbus Police Department installs new prescription drug drop boxes
New prescription drug drop boxes have been installed in the main lobby of Columbus Police headquarters in order to promote proper medication disposal, CPD officials say.