Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

We have good news for a pastor-slash-artist, bad news for a mayor, and a look at a city that some folks want to see broken apart. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A missing-person case now involving investigators from nearly a dozen agencies, a weak performance in math testing for the state, and a principal among an elite few to win a national award. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have an educator who made the tough journey back from Afghanistan,what the man who wrote the abortion ban has to say about Tuesday's news, and the Alabama connection to the attack that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a Senate-race update, helping hands in a tornado zone, a historic home gone and an Alabama squirrel revival. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the weekend a 3-year-old who captured hearts across the state and even nation was laid to rest, and we'll look ahead to the week in Alabama weather. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Mobile might make a move on the list of Alabama's most populous states, and some background on Sonny Shroyer's role as Bear Bryant in "Forrest Gump." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A chemical spill, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, and just when Mississippi will start selling Powerball and Mega Millions tickets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Birmingham Police say they believe there's a tragic ending to their search for Birmingham 3-year-old Kamille McKinney. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new political candidate going viral, a city's restriction on funeral processions, and really fancy expensive beer we're missing out on. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leigh's back to talk about the weather prospects for the week -- and the coming winter. Also, we have items on red-cockaded woodpeckers and shiny new unemployment numbers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have another step in NASA's Artemis program, the remains of an Alabama sailor come home, and a California city won't be doing business with us, or nearly half the states. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The overall grade given to Alabama's public schools, a couple of political items, and then we might pick on an MTV show just a little. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crime stuff, Mississippi's lottery, and a giant no-smoking zone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A name for the future home of the Rocket City Trash Pandas, a historic spacewalk for an astronaut whose inspirational roots were partly grown in Huntsville and a proposed no-smoking zone that's bigger than some Alabama cities. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alabama Democrats, Gov. Kay Ivey's health and the weather lookahead. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politics, dominoes and Christmas decorations. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a Supreme Court no-decision on a half-dozen Death Row inmates, a teacher's rare honor, and the first anniversary of a storm that changed the lives of some of our neighbors to the south forever. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can now bet on horse races that've already happened, the state Republicans try to put some pressure on Sen. Doug Jones, and a blues legend passes away. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a while so Let's talk civil-asset forfeiture, a state legislator who wants to go judicial, and the import of the Iron Bowl and lesser rivalries. Or at least different rivalries. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The body of a boater is recovered; a ransomware attack was launched on a hospital system; and cooler weather is here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we've been leading the nation in high temperatures. It's got much, much hotter in Attalla, and we have something law-enforcement officers don't really help you with. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a city with no city workers, a vaping death in the state, alleged prolific car burglars arrested, and a new area code coming this month. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you think Jeff Sessions feels about Donald Trump? Which of our cities do you think top a list of the best affordable places in American? And a chicken-finger legend has passed away. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So is Decatur a sanctuary city or not? Will the dam break on college athletes making money? And a man at UAB Hospital had a dying wish. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A former politician passes away, a current politician faces misdemeanor charges, and it's still hot and dry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices