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GE Aviation Creating 60 Jobs at Auburn Facility

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GE Aviation plans to invest $50 million to expand the additive manufacturing operation at its Auburn facility, the aerospace industry’s first site to mass produce a jet engine component using 3-D printing technologies. As part of the project, GE Aviation will create 60 jobs and install advanced new additive production machines in Auburn, allowing the factory to launch high volume…

Pipe Bomb Found Inside Dale County Sheriff’s Office

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Officers found a pipe bomb inside an Alabama sheriff’s office while going through some evidence that had not been searched. The device didn’t go off and no one was hurt in the incident, which occurred Tuesday night at the Dale County Sheriff’s Office in south Alabama. Sheriff Wally Olson tells news outlets that officers found a duffel bag while conducting…

Wife Defends Husband in 1999 Double Killing Investigation

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The wife of an Alabama man charged with capital murder in the slaying of two teenagers nearly 20 years ago says he’s innocent. Jeanette McCraney defended her husband, 45-year-old Coley McCraney, during a news conference Wednesday in Ozark. Jeanette McCraney says her husband is a truck driver and minister who puts other people first. She says authorities first began asking…

The First Day of Spring

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We officially say hello to spring today as the vernal equinox occurs at 4:58 PM CDT, and the weather will be very spring-like. The sky will be sunny and we are forecasting highs in the upper 60s all across South/Central Alabama. Tonight, clouds will increase as a weak disturbance swings through the state and it could squeeze out light rain…

Will Alabama Finally Have a Lottery?

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Click here to see Lottery Proposal It has been four years since a major attempt at legislation for a lottery was at the State House. Now Republican Senator Jim McClendon is proposing a clean state lottery bill. “The people of Alabama, and my constituents have made it clear to me, that they want to be able to buy a lottery…

Macon County Sheriff Talks about Arresting “Mama June” on Drug Charges

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Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson was Live on Alabama News Network to discuss the arrest of “Mama June” Shannon and her friend Eugene Doak.  The two were arrested on drug charges at a gas station last Wednesday, but news of their arrests has only recently surfaced. “Mama June” is known as the mother of “Honey Boo Boo”. Together, they appeared…

AUM Announces New Dean of Business

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Auburn University at Montgomery will welcome Ross N. Dickens as its new College of Business dean in July. Dickens, who has served as dean and professor of finance at the University of Tennessee at Martin’s College of Business and Global Affairs since August 2013, will assume the deanship on July 1. “Dr. Dickens emerged from a strong group of finalists,” Auburn…

Baldwin County Man Killed in Butler County Crash

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A single-vehicle crash at 7:50 a.m. today, has claimed the life of a Baldwin County man. Cameron Matthew Carlson, 62, was killed when the 2016 Nissan Altima he was operating left the roadway and struck a tree. Carlson was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash occurred on I-65  at the 119 mile marker in Butler County. Nothing further is…

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