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Fatal Crash Update + A New 'Newspaper' + River District Park
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TGIF, T-Town! Let's get you started this Friday with everything you need to know going on in Tuscaloosa today.
In today's Daily, we have these stories and more ...
- Northport residents killed in crash.
- Exclusive with NASCAR Cup Series champ.
- United Way benefit downtown today.
First, today's weather: Warmer with clouds and sun. High: 88 | Low: 70.
Patch Shout Out!
Friday morning's Patch Shout Out is for Shala Wood, a Northport Police Department dispatcher who is retiring after 26 years of service. She was praised for helping countless citizens and providing a calm voice for Northport officers. (More)
Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa
- The Tuscaloosa City Council unanimously approved the $7.3 million River District Park project, which is aimed at changing the shape of the city around the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. (Joseph King, WVUA 23)
- Two Northport residents were killed and two others seriously injured in an early-morning two-vehicle collision on University Boulevard near Cottondale. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
- Here's what NASCAR Cup Series Champion Chase Elliott had to say when I asked him about the overall Talladega experience ahead of Sunday's big return to full capacity. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
- Pinnacle Physician Group has sued DCH Health Care Authority, claiming new policies at DCH facilities will put 12 doctors out of business.(Stephen Dethrage, Tuscaloosa Thread)
- Here's a neat story after My Goat Inc. recently arrived in Tuscaloosa to install its autonomous, robotic lawnmowers that could change the way the city does landscaping. (Jason Morton, Tuscaloosa News)
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Today in Tuscaloosa:
Uncommon Tuscaloosa Adoption Day (More)
The Horror Tuscaloosa in Cottondale (More)
Other stories I'm reading today ...
- Faculty Senate will vote on new general education requirements in October (Tessa Worley & Mackenzie Wilson, Crimson White)
- Protest over use of COVID funds for prisons held outside Statehouse (John H. Glenn, Alabama Political Reporter)
- Expanded museum traces legacy of slavery in America (Kim Chandler, Associated Press)
- Five-star guard Jaden Bradley commits to Alabama (Mike Rodak, AL.com)
- Lawsuit challenges Alabama's voting districts as racially unfair (Pat Duggins, Alabama Public Radio)
- How Alabama plans to combat feeling one play behind Ole Miss offense (Charlie Potter, BamaOnline)
- QB Arch Manning is Early in Decision Process as Alabama Visit Approaches (Harrison Holland, Bama Central)
Patch Pick
A tip of the hat to the talented reporters, writers and artists who put in the work for the very first edition of the Huntington Times — a new school newspaper for Huntington Place Elementary in Northport. You've quickly become Tuscaloosa Patch's "favorite newspaper." Check out the full first edition by clicking the link! (More)
Tuscaloosa Patch Notebook
The West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force arrested a Tuscaloosa man Thursday on child pornography charges after a search warrant was executed on his home. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
A Tuscaloosa man will spend the next four and a half years in prison after being sentenced Thursday in connection to a shooting that injured a bouncer outside of a Tuscaloosa bar in October 2019. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
A Marengo County woman was killed and two others injured in a crash involving ATVs near Boligee on Saturday. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
The City of Tuscaloosa host "United on the Plaza" on Friday, Oct. 1 during lunch to benefit the United Way of West Alabama. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
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Have a great Friday!
— RP
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