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Court rules Alabama violated Voting Rights Act in drawing congressional lines

Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally diluted the voting strength of Black residents when it drew congressional lines, and said the state must continue using a court-ordered map that led to the election of the state’s second Black congressman. A three-judge panel permanently blocked Alabama from using a state-drawn map that they said flouted […]

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Almost 60 cases dismissed due to corruption in a northern Alabama police department, grand jury finds

Nearly 60 felony cases will be dropped in a small Alabama town because they were compromised by what a grand jury called a “rampant culture of corruption” in the local police department, according to a statement on Wednesday. The grand jury determined that 58 felony criminal cases had been tainted by corruption in the Hanceville […]

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