🌱 Fire At UA Student Center + Tide Baseball Returns + UMWA Strike

Get on up, Tuscaloosa! Grab the coffee and get all caught up with us to get this Saturday morning started.

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

• Tide baseball returns.
• UMWA strike update.
• Fire at UA student center.

But first, today's weather: Mostly sunny and warmer. High: 58 | Low: 38 🌞

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Saturday morning goes to the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team, which opened the 2023 season with a convincing 12-3 win over visiting Richmond on Friday. (More)

🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. The longstanding labor union strike at Warrior Met Coal appears to be nearing its end after United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) have held the picket line for almost two years. (Tuscaloosa Patch)
2. The University of Alabama and the City of Tuscaloosa are partnering to offering police "Strip Detail," which will include a permanent location. (WVTM 13)
3. The University of Alabama has yet to return thousands of Native American remains and does not currently have a Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act coordinator to facilitate return efforts. (Maven Navarro, Crimson White)
4. A small fire was reported in the University of Alabama's Student Center on Friday, prompting the building to be evacuated before it was quickly put out. (WBRC FOX 6 News)
5. The Alabama Attorney General's Office has confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of a Walker County jail inmate's death in police custody. (Carol Robinson, AL.com)

🗓 Today in Tuscaloosa 🗓

• Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Bicycle Ride (More)
• Farmer's Daughter @ Rhythm & Brews (More)
• Billy and The Medicine Men @ Copper Top (More)
• Asses of Fire: A Chili Cook Off for the Ages @ Druid City Brewing Co. (More)
• Popup @ House Plant Collective-Tuscaloosa (More)

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5️⃣ Other Stories I'm Reading Today

1. How James B. Boone Jr. led his newspapers to serve their communities (Mark Hughes Cobb, Tuscaloosa News)
2. Tuscaloosa Council Shoots Down Another Business Leader's Gastropub (Stephen Dethrage, Tuscaloosa Thread)
3. Pickens County Sheriff's Office hires new K-9 deputy to detect drugs (Tim Reid, CBS 42)
4. Opinion | You froze a man to death (Josh Moon, Alabama Political Reporter)
5. Alabama Students Raise Money For Turkey Earthquake Relief (Chaney Scott, WVUA 23 News)

🙏 Obituaries 🙏

Teresa "Terri" Knowles McLaughlin, 64, of Tuscaloosa (Memory Chapel)

Samuel Coffey Wilson, 61, of Tuscaloosa (Tuscaloosa Memorial Chapel)

Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Saturday off right. I'll see you back in your inbox tomorrow with another update!

— RP

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