Down in Alabama with Ike Morgan

Those Montgomery Democrats, bad effects of the August heat on some school kids, and a bottle of Jack Daniel's that celebrates ... well, us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's high school football week, and we have news on a controversy at one school as well as our readers picks for the all-time best players. We also have items on the Church of the Highlands and the I-10 bayway project. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American Idol, cops, cowboys and hepatitis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We'll update the increasingly unpopular I-10 toll plan, remind you of a couple legislative actions about to go into effect, and tell you where to go for your American Idol auditions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a manhunt that's bound to end soon, the Alabama woman who's leading the moon-lander project, and some fairly predictable August weather. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Houston and Huntsville vie for space-industry clout, a legal slip in the execution process, and the pride of Green Hill appears to have joined forces with a Bee Gee. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a scary kind of accidental shooting, although I guess they all are. Don't go pretending your dog is a service dog, especially after Sept. 1. And Harvey Updyke has another court date. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're studying medical marijuana, picking out colleges and trying to think of a great slogan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're enlisting truck drivers to help battle one social ill, there's a new voice of the Auburn Tigers, and we have a couple of embarrassing crime stories. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have federal money aimed at helping Alabama fight HIV, federal money aimed at helping Alabama fight opioid addiction, and what the weather might do this week besides just be hot. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have armed school administrators, no more valedictorians in one school system, a scare on a football field and jet-skiing across the Gulf Stream. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A prison update, just how pro-Trump the state was in July, and a reality-show celebrity went face-to-face with a burglar in Mountain Brook. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A South American country's government is casting stones at the Magic City, there are new rules for absentee voters, and we have a pretty dramatic way to defend yourself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have jetliners being built, the debate over the length of the school year, and a candidate dares veer away from Trump for a moment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The El Paso mass shooter's name had people wondering whether he was from Alabama (he wasn't), remember to not leave your kids or pets in a hot car, and we'll take a peek at the weather pattern for the week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have alleged mischief by a police officer, and his department ain't having it. We have some of the folks who would love to have the job Martha Roby's leaving. And the preseason coaches poll is out. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A heartbreaking story on a really senseless crime, and state laws on vaping and alcohol that go into effect today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A K-9 memorialized, new saltwater regulations in effect today, and a toilet-paper caper. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happened to the surviving cats from that terrible scene at the Dothan Animal Shelter, a lawsuit in the 2016 Tuscaloosa plane crash, and if you see Tommy Tuberville sleeping in his truck, don't go waking him up. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have some shakeup coming in Alabama's congressional delegation, how Alabama's tax system affected an NFL contract negotiation, and the Monday weather lookahead. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Saban explains why he occasionally goes into a rant during a press conference, an oyster-napping took place across the state line, and vicious technology is pushing back school in one school system. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you plan to buy a gun, send your kids to school, swim down on the coast or go to the bathroom in Alabama, there's at least a little something for you today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A sheriff pleading guilty, an on-the-job tragedy and a coastal study that sounds pretty gross. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have a pretty good-sized drop in the bucket for the bayway bridge, the woman who's gonna lead the development of NASA's lunar module, and sentencing for a substitute teacher who actually did have a pistol in his pocket. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have stories that might make you cut your grass, get started on your Christmas list and maybe even get out of the house in the middle of the day once or twice this week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices