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Alabama Earthquake

The ground in North Alabama shook early this morning

AP-AL–Alabama Earthquake Small earthquake shakes north Alabama MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (AP) – No damage is being reported after a minor earthquake rattled northwest Alabama. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 2.8 earthquake happened around 3:30 a.m. Friday about a half-mile southwest of Muscle Shoals. Police aren’t reporting any damage, the Colbert County Emergency Management Agency says no one has…

Famed Muscle Shoals Music Producer Rick Hall Dies at 85

Alabama record producer Rick Hall, who recorded some of the biggest musical acts of the 1960s and ’70s and helped develop the fabled “Muscle Shoals sound,” has died. Longtime friend Judy Hood says Hall died at his home Tuesday following a fight with cancer. He was 85. Hall founded FAME Recording Studios in northwestern Alabama in 1959 and went on…