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Our prayers and thoughts include the family and friends of Mark Daniel, who at only 17 years of age passed away recently in a tragic accident when his truck left the roadway and struck a tree.
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Last Sunday morning I served as an usher at my church after working a late Saturday night monitoring the events surrounding mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.
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The Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center recently joined the Marriott Auburn Opelika Hotel & Conference Center at Grand National as two of only about a dozen Alabama hotel properties to earn a four-diamond rating with the AAA travel-service agency.
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OUR VIEW: Boy, 3, dies in grease tank; the Sadie Grace law named for Auburn tot should go nationwide
A 3-year-old boy died last week after falling into an underground grease collection tank behind an upstate New York fast-food restaurant.
Opelika and Auburn both face a dilemma that other cities and towns, large and small, all around the world face: how to preserve its history while moving forward with progress.
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President Donald Trump’s administration is doing right by denying requests by a handful of American embassies to fly the gay pride flag, but not necessarily because it might take issue with gay rights.
Auburn isn’t alone.
Surviving a tornado that killed 23 neighbors and injured nearly 100 more friends and family is tough enough, but having to ride by or sit months later and still see the mounds and mounds of destroyed, leftover debris up and down local roads is an untreated emotional wound that deserves a muc…
A pack of cigarettes costs $5.93 at a drug store, the packs all stacked up behind the checkout counter, I noticed today.
If I were to hear from folks that I’ve touched or hugged, how many would tell me they were offended or that I was invading their personal space? Is my behavior a manifestation of the Joe Biden syndrome?
Opelika and all of the Lee County area gained great national exposure when professional golf played its PGA Barbasol Championship here for three consecutive years before moving last season’s event to Kentucky.
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Here we are again, Alabama, 20 years later and still talking about having a state lottery.
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The outstanding work of Auburn High School students and their leader, Blake Busbin, is not done when it comes to collecting the history of Vietnam veterans from the state.
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Good news came this week with the report that the Auburn Mall soon will be seeing renovations and change that could help boost its appeal and promote greater activity.
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Auburn University’s best and most impressive NCAA basketball trophy doesn’t sit in a glass case.
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Developing a well-trained and dependable workforce continues to be among the priorities Alabama communities should be setting for themselves, an Auburn University economist says.
There is no question that Gov. Kay Ivey’s Infrastructure/Gas Tax Program was the cornerstone issue of this legislative session.
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President Trump’s recent call for a redirect of military funding to support his border wall campaign could have a direct impact on projects in Alabama if he gets his way.
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Hunger and ambition are good motivators for second-chancers who know what it’s like to have both and the fear of losing them. That’s why if they do fall again, the hurt for them is much worse than for anyone else.
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Alabama’s fast-growing aerospace industry received another boost Wednesday when GE Aviation announced it will invest $50 million in an expansion of its Auburn facility.
