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Up and at 'em, Tuscaloosa! Here's everything you need to know to get this Tuesday started.

In today's Daily, we have these stories and more ...

  • Pedestrian paths for Northport?
  • Interview with Autherine Lucy Foster.
  • Undercover sting in Tuscaloosa.

First, today's weather: Plenty of sunshine. High: 59 | Low: 33.

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Tuesday morning goes to Northport Mayor Bobby Herndon, who has spent the last several days collecting and delivering donations to tornado victims in neighboring Hale County. And even while serving as a humanitarian and the city's chief executive, he is still a loving husband who has had little sleep lately after his wife's recent hospital stay for surgery. Our thoughts go out to Kay and our gratitude goes out to Mayor Herndon for being such a tireless servant to everyone he meets.

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🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

  1. Far and away the day's top story — an exclusive interview with Autherine Lucy Foster as she discusses the renaming of the University of Alabama building that her name will share with a former KKK leader. (Drew Taylor, CBS 42 News)
  2. A second arrest has been confirmed in the shooting death of a 19-year-old woman last November in Tuscaloosa's West End at Hay Court Apartments. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
  3. The Northport City Council on Monday voted unanimously in favor of moving forward on a feasibility study relating to facilities and demographics, as the city considers the arduous and costly process of starting its own city school system. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
  4. A Northport trucking repair company that admits to being at least in-part responsible for a oil spill near several homes and an elementary school is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it and one of its affiliates by a nearby property owner. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
  5. Ten suspects were arrested by authorities in Tuscaloosa last Friday and Saturday as part of a large-scale undercover operation that focused on combating child exploitation. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓

  • Bath Bombs + Bubbles @ Midtown Village (More)
  • Trivia @ Mellow Mushroom (More)
  • Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama's Business After Hours @ AC Hotel Tuscaloosa Downtown. (More)

📉 Number of the Day 📈

$14 million

- The estimated total project cost, according to TTL, for the City of Northport's proposed master pedestrian plan, which will add four miles of 12-foot wide walking and biking trails in the northernmost part of the city. Check out more about the plan here and be sure to attend the public interest meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 15. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

✏️ Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook ✏️

A Northport man was killed and an on-duty Alabama State Trooper injured in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 59 Sunday evening, roughly a mile south of Fosters. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

Alabama softball's Montana Fouts and Kaylee Tow were named to the Preseason All-SEC Team on Monday. (More)

Shelton State Community College baseball split its season-opening doubleheader Friday at home against Jones CC (Miss.), winning the first game 10-4, while dropping the second 5-1. (More)

In other SSCC action, the Shelton State men's basketball team (21-3) won its 13th straight game Tuesday night over Gadsden State, 88-72. In women's basketball action, the Lady Bucs improved to a near-perfect 23-1 over Gadsden State 87-42. (More)

To celebrate Arbor Week this year, the City of Tuscaloosa on Monday announced it will partner with the Alabama Power Service Organization to give out 350 container tree saplings at the Tuscaloosa River Market on Saturday, Feb. 26. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

In other Northport City Council news, a resolution was approved on Monday a measure that will see Alabama Power install state-of-the-art LED lighting across the entire city. Council President Jeff Hogg told Patch that it will ultimately cost the city less than $650 a month to maintain. (More)

The Alabama women's wheelchair basketball team will take part in the Jalapeno's Invitational this Saturday at the Stran-Hardin Arena, with competition beginning at 9:30 a.m. (More)

👀 Check It Out 👀

Colonial Drive on the University of Alabama campus will soon be the home of the $4 million, 25,000-square-foot Drummond Lyon Hall. The state-of-the-art facility will house UA's fashion retailing and apparel design concentrations. (Tuscaloosa Patch)

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👨‍💻 Other stories I'm reading today 👨‍💻

- SCOTUS allows Alabama's new Republican-drawn congressional maps to remain (Eddie Burkhalter, Alabama Political Reporter)

- Hale County woman moved by storm victim's profound loss, makes move to assist (Bryan Henry, WBRC Fox 6 News)

- (Pictures) University of Alabama's Wakanda Scholarship Ball (Dre Day, Tuscaloosa Thread)

- State tourism director discusses Civil Rights Trail, Legacy (WVUA 23)

- Highest-paying jobs in Alabama that don't require a college degree (Leada Gore, AL.com)

- Birmingham leaders, USFL positive on new league (Tyler Patchen, Birmingham Business Journal)

- Black colleges alarmed by bomb threats, but undeterred (Associated Press)

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— RP

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