This week, Don reviews Dappled Things: A Novel by Joe Taylor.

Older pets often get passed over in animal shelters but they may be best pets ever!

Amari Allen had 16 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists for the fifth triple-double in program history as No. 20 Alabama beat Arkansas State 101-86 on Friday night.

Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 8 when she was part of the crowd of civil rights marchers attacked on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, months before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. On Tuesday night, she stood in Montgomery, Alabama, to celebrate a resounding political victory for Black voters and others who refused to accept the law’s recent diminishing by the U.S.Supreme Court and several state legislatures across the South.

In this episode of BrightPath, hosts Lisa Jones and Johnnie Aycock welcome Dr. David Figge, Director of Clinical Immunology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology. Dr. Figge discusses the fascinating connections between the brain, immune system, and aging, sharing insights from his research on neuroscience, immunology, epigenetics, and cellular behavior. Dr. Figge also explores how understanding the body's memory systems may help advance medical research and open new possibilities for addressing age-related diseases.

Midseason stumbles by No. 9 Alabama and 15th-ranked LSU briefly threatened to lower the gravity of what will be the last of 64 annual matchups on Saturday. The Crimson Tide and Tigers have since rebounded with convincing victories to again set the stage for another memorable, early November tilt that even First Lady Melania Trump is scheduled to attend.

Cam Marston swore off politics on social media years ago. On Monday he broke that vow, and he promised himself he wouldn’t reply to a single comment. One friend’s jab is testing that promise. Here’s Cam, with a little help from Mark Twain.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said he would commute hundreds of death sentences before leaving office. Alabama, Florida, and Indiana all carried out executions Thursday.

New data from the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker shows relations between law enforcement and the media have become strained. Over twenty journalists have been detained or arrested in the U.S. over the past six months. An Alabama program designed to provide leadership training to the state’s public safety officials is attempting to remedy this issue of distrust.

Michael Taylor faces execution in Alabama, 35 years after fatally beating an older couple with a metal bar during a robbery in their Gadsden home. Police arrested the 19-year-old Taylor with the victims' Cadillac, an hour away in Birmingham. The execution would be the state's third this year. Alabama’s scheduled execution is the one of three nationally today. One death sentence in Indiana was carried out this morning.

It’s been a confusing college football season so far. Nobody felt that more deeply than the College Football Playoff selection committee, which raised eyebrows aplenty in its first attempt of the season to make sense of it all. At number five, was Alabama — eight spots ahead of Tennessee, even though the Tide is only a few weeks removed from a 16-point loss to the Vols. At No. 6 was Kentucky, followed by Texas.

At the urging of President Donald Trump, Republicans in eight states redrew the boundaries of dozens of congressional districts over the past year while angling for an edge that could help them hold onto a slim House majority in a tough midterm election.Ultimately, it didn't work. In Alabama, a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Republican-led Legislature to revert to what the GOP considered to be a friendlier map. But Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures won reelection anyway, defying Republicans' plans.