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A 3-month-old baby boy was killed in his Alabama home by his family’s “pet wolf,” according to authorities who have launched a criminal probe. The unidentified toddler died in the wild incident at a home in Chelsea on Thursday afternoon, Shelby County coroner Lina Evans confirmed to The Post. “It appears that the wolf or wolf-dog – they kept it as a, quote, ‘pet’ – picked up the child that was down on the floor and started playing with it, and unfortunately killed the baby,” Evans said.

A terminally ill Alabama man called cops to confess to a homicide that stumped investigators for 25 years, police said. Johnny Dwight Whited, 53, told a Decatur police detective Wednesday that he was responsible for the 1995 slaying of Christopher Alvin Dailey, who died from a single gunshot wound to the head, department officials said. “Despite the extensive investigation, a suspect was never developed in the case,” police said in a statement Thursday. “In the years that followed, the case was revisited several times for leads.”

The woman who accused former Alabama defensive lineman Jonathan Taylor of assault this past weekend has since recanted her statement to police and was subsequently arrested for giving a false report, according to authorities. Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit assistant commander Kip Hart said the 24-year-old woman, whose identity is being withheld, approached investigators and provided a written statement saying she fabricated the story.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A new survey shows potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson has jumped to the front of the Republican field in Alabama, while the Democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has tightened up. Capital Survey Research Center, the polling arm of the Alabama Education Association, released a statewide survey showing Thompson, a former Tennessee senator born in Sheffield, Ala., favored by 34 percent of likely Republican voters. Thompson was followed by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani with 20 percent, Arizona Sen. John McCain with 11 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has not announced, with...