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Gov. Kay Ivey has ordered flags to remain lowered at half-staff in honor of Lt. Mark Meadows of the Irondale Police Department. The police officer was killed Monday after being struck by a truck while directing traffic outside a church.

Former Alabama Republican U.S. Rep. Robert Terry Everett has died. He was 87. Gov. Kay Ivey's office says he died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Rehobeth on Tuesday. Everett represented the state’s 2nd District from 1993 to 2009.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Jack Edwards of Alabama has died at age 91.His family said through a spokesman that Edwards died Friday morning…