🌱 Tide QB Battle This Spring + Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit

Get on up, T-Town! Grab the coffee, rub the sleep from your eyes and get all caught up with us before you start the week.

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First, today's weather: Mostly sunny and cool. High: 56 | Low: 30 ☀️

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🗣 Patch Shout Out 🗣

Our Shout Out for this Monday morning goes to the No. 10 Alabama gymnastics team for finishing second at the 2023 SEC Championships with a 197.925. (More)

🗞 Here are the top 5 stories today in Tuscaloosa 🗞

1. Check out this feature on Vance Elementary School teacher Allie Haddock, who is being spotlighted by our news partners. (WVUA 23 News)
2. Here's an interesting column as a quarterback battle looms for the Crimson Tide football team this spring. (Chase Goodbread, Tuscaloosa News)
3. Education students at the University of Alabama are petitioning to save McLure Library(Rachel Seale, Crimson White)
4. Don't miss this look back at one of our favorite people — Alabama basketball broadcaster and Friend of Patch Chris Stewart —as he got emotional during the call of Brandon Miller's block and 3-point sequence. (Mark Heim, AL.com)
5. A class action lawsuit is in the making after NorthStar Emergency Medical Services fell victim to a data breach. (Dre Day, Tuscaloosa Thread)

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👀 Check it out 👀

I'll be live on The Next Round at 11 a.m. today discussing the big developments in Jamea Harris capital murder case. I'll be following fellow University of Alabama journalism school grad Rece Davis. Don't miss out! (More)

🙏 Obituaries 🙏

Fred Franklin Jones, 91, of Northport (Magnolia Chapel Funeral Home)

Julie C Fondren, 70, of Tuscaloosa (Memory Chapel)

Eddie Madison, 56, of Fayette (Nelson Funeral Home)

Sara R. Barnette, 98, of Cottondale (Norwood-Wyatt Chapel)

Johnny Lee Peck, 59, of Tuscaloosa (Wills' Funeral Service)

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Thanks for following along and staying informed. I'll see you soon!

— RP

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