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Lee County’s sheriff is saying 14 people are dead amid “catastrophic” damage there following a possible tornado this afternoon. And more people are missing as crews search through wreckage and debris. Sheriff Jay Jones told WRBL-TV on Sunday that damage followed a path several miles long and appeared up to a fourth of a mile wide. “I can say that at this time we have 14 confirmed fatalities," Jones said. "And again, the search continues. We still have some people that are reported missing.” Lee County was only one of several areas across Alabama hit by severe weather, as damage...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation. He said in his written recusal released on March 2. "Having concluded those meetings today, I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States." Any existing or future investigations. Related in any way. Sessions consulted with the president and coordinated the firing of James Comey. Recall that Comey had testified on March 20 that he was heading the Russia investigation: "I've been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that...

Backlash against a plan to remove prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans has been tinged by death threats, intimidation and even what may have been the intentional torching of a contractor’s Lamborghini. For now, at least, things have gotten so nasty the city hasn’t found a contractor willing to bear the risk of tearing down the monuments. The city doesn’t have its own equipment to move them and is now in talks to find a company, even discussing doing the work at night to avoid further tumult.Initially, it appeared the monuments would be removed quickly after the majority black City...

April 7, 1862 (Monday) Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee General Grant tried to sleep, first under a tree near his men and then in a cabin that he found already occupied with the wounded. Through the night, Union transports and reinforcements arrived at Pittsburg Landing, bringing 25,000 much-needed men. Grant was certain that his line could withstand a Confederate attack. In fact, he was so certain, that he wanted to go on the offensive. Meanwhile, General Beauregard, now the sole commander of the Confederate Army of Mississippi, slept in General Sherman’s tent, the former owner vacating it as the Rebels attacked the...

A man Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said was suspect in Friday's triple homicide in the Beauregard community was found dead Sunday morning, killed by a gunshot would that appears to be self-inflicted. The Lee County Sheriff's Office received a call Sunday at 4:26 a.m. reporting a shooting in the Beauregard community. According to Jones, Bernard Vaughan, 69, was found by his wife in the backyard of his home at 900 Lee Road 401. Scene conditions indicate that Vaughan died instantly of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Jones said. A medium-caliber hand gun was found near the body....

Georgians want the Confederate emblem back on their state flag, and are frustrated that a referendum this month won't give them that option. What they don't know is that if the emblem's creator were alive, he'd vote to bury it. It's said that Social Security is the third rail of American politics, but an honest look would turn up something just as deadly. Though it lacks New Deal stature, nothing is more hazardous to a political career than the Confederate flag. Like Sherman's march, it lays waste to everything in its path. In recent years alone the flag has ruined...

<p>LAFAYETTE (AP) - One of five people accused of burning a cross to intimidate three black men in Beauregard Parish has pleaded guilty to a civil rights charge, U.S. Attorney Don Washington said.</p> <p>Prosecutors said Berry Lynn Harris, 21, of Sulphur, and four fellow Ku Klux Klan members burned the cross to intimidate three black men who recently had moved to the Longville area from Mississippi to work at a nearby plant.</p>