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Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

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Start your morning with the latest news and stories from Alabama. Then, hear the stories behind the stories as Ike Morgan is joined by voices from the AL.com newsroom and beyond for deep dives on pressing topics, news quizzes and a whole lot of fun.

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Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Big reward; tropical weather 24.09.2024

On today's show: a big reward in that Birmingham shooting that killed four, the National Blue Ribbon Schools from Alabama, an offer to stay that a long-time university leader couldn't refuse. Then we'll talk with statewide weather reporter Leigh Morgan about tropical storms and hurricanes and Alabama's possible impacts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Birmingham homicides on a record pace 23.09.2024

We'll give you what we have on that weekend quadruple homicide in Birmingham. We also have a renamed southern tourist destination and alleged palmetto-berry bandits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politics of libraries and migrant workers ... and another quiz! 20.09.2024

Let's talk libraries, pollution and another city's migrant workers. We also have another listener here to take this week's quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What they're saying in Sylacauga (about the Haitian migrants) 19.09.2024

Read more here about Haitian migrants in Sylacauga. We also have some reaction to the Fed's half-point rate cut, Donald Trump's Alabama-Georgia plans and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IVF, falling pines, STAR IDs and ... eating clay? 18.09.2024

Today we'll talk about IVF squabbling, falling trees in the woods, STAR IDs and folks who eat clay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump mulls Tide game; pediatrician issues continue 17.09.2024

Will Trump attend Alabama-UGA? Alabama's pediatrician issues. More work coming to the Mobile shipyard. Career moments for a few high school coaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

UA enrollment, flood rescues, Tua 16.09.2024

Today: Record enrollment at the University of Alabama, flooding rescues, what they're saying about Tua Tagovailoa and the passings of Melissa Riopka and Nall Hollis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unusual crimes and the quiz 13.09.2024

Today we have an update on the Vicky White/Casey White saga, a reminder not to take pot to the airport, and a naked man in custody. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tuberville vs. Pentagon; remembering a mall celebrity 12.09.2024

On today's show: School threats of violence across Alabama. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville vs. the Pentagon. The Galleria Elvis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Debating IVF; Hurricane Francine effects 11.09.2024

Today we'll touch on huge damages in a discrimination lawsuit involving UAB, the IVF talk from last night's debate, a man celebrated for his Chipotle dedication, and how the hurricane might affect us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vaping and smoking and much more 10.09.2024

We have items on Alabama's VA leadership, Nick Saban back in Washington D.C., an old Presbyterian church building's demolition and West Nile virus. Plus, I'm going to share some thoughts on vaping laws and cigarette nostalgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial worries, immigration concerns 09.09.2024

Today, we have another private school in financial trouble, another city taking in a quick influx of immigrants from Haiti, and home-improvement chain LL Flooring closing up shop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freed pastor, arrested sheriff, and the weekly quiz 06.09.2024

Today we have a pastor released from a Nicaraguan prison, a sheriff arrested, a VA commissioner asked to resign and more. For a second segment today we have another guest on to take our weekly news-review quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vaping in public venues, U.S. Steel sale, Facebook Marketplace violence 05.09.2024

Today we'll talk about what the next legislative session might do about vaping, What U.S. Steel might do if it doesn't sell to a Japanese company, and what went wrong in a Facebook Marketplace transaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Presidential race polling '24 04.09.2024

Today we have the pending retirement of Troy University Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr., an update on Friday's triple homicide, and a widow who says a Florida hospital removed the wrong organ from her husband. Then we're going to talk to Leada Gore about presidential-race polling trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sheriff wants tweak to 'permitless carry' 03.09.2024

Today: a proposed tweak to permitless carry, a shooting at a vigil for a previous shooting, and a 117-year-old weather record that fell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plodding toward medical marijuana 02.09.2024

A woman who did time for a Birmingham murder and has been deported four times has been arrested again. The march toward medical-marijuana plods along. Threat of gun violence ends high school football game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quiz day! Also, a union arrest and the Bart Starr home 30.08.2024

Hey, we have another review quiz coming up. First, though, we have news items on continued fallout from the Warrior Met Coal strike, a shipbuilder agreeing to a $24 million settlement and also launching a new line of boats, and Bart Starr's former home is just there waiting for you to buy it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cops and courts (and more) 29.08.2024

Today's news includes: A verdict in seven 2020 Morgan County killings. No injunction on transgender-therapies law. Arrests related to gambling machines that were shut down in one city only to show up in another. More preserve on Fort Morgan peninsula. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fighting recidivism; talking college football 28.08.2024

Today let's talk recidivism, familiar gambling machines and the president of Iceland's Alabama tie. Then it's college football season so we're going to talk college football with reporter and WNSP radio host Mark Heim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The state of debates 27.08.2024

Methodist lawsuits, more about the man who died three decades after being shot, an electric semi-truck, and the state of debates in this country and this state. Click here for more on the Alabama 2nd Congressional District debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prep football tragedy; pine beetle epidemic 26.08.2024

Today: The sad news on Caden Tellier from the Morgan Academy game. Church of the Highlands in Daphne. The Southern pine beetles on the March. Transfer-portal quotes, beginning with what the coach of The Other Miami said about Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Community colleges, unusual homicide, news quiz 23.08.2024

Today we have another brave listener willing to face down our Friday news quiz. First, we have news items on community colleges, an unusual homicide and two cities where you can stretch your dollar the farthest (according to one report). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Real-estate market; shark-attack victim's homecoming 22.08.2024

Today we talk about the real-estate market, felons voting and a shark-attack victim's update. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Delta 8 and legal trouble over a legal product 21.08.2024

Today on the show we're going to talk with reporter Amy Yurkanin, who has done reporting on Delta 8, hemp, and the trouble a pregnant woman found herself in after using a legal product. But first, let's talk about an impeachment lawsuit against a mayor, crime-fighting measures in Birmingham, and an impressive cruise out of Mobile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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