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AP Top 25 Takeaways: Georgia-Alabama play a thrilling classic, undiminshed by expanded CFP
No. 2 Georgia and No. 4 Alabama played a classic Saturday night, a wild affair that included a 28-0 run by the Crimson Tide to start the game, a resilient comeback by the Bulldogs, and 142 yards worth of touchdown passes in a 13-second span of the fourth quarter. When it was done,...
Milroe-to-Williams TD connection helps No. 4 Alabama beat No. 2 Georgia 41-34 in DeBoer's SEC opener
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Georgia and Alabama, Jalen Milroe and Carson Beck, put on quite a show even with a different Crimson Tide coach prowling the sideline. Ryan Williams caught a 75-yard touchdown pass from Milroe with 2:18 left and No. 4 Alabama beat No. 2 Georgia 41-34 on...
Nussmeier, Durham lead big-play offense for No. 14 LSU in 42-10 win over South Alabama
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Garrett Nussmeier threw for a career-high 409 yards, Caden Durham had 217 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns and No. 14 LSU piled up a season-high 667 yards of offense in a 42-10 win over South Alabama on Saturday night. Durham took a swing pass from...
In Alabama, Trump goes from the dark rhetoric of his campaign to adulation of college football fans
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — As Donald Trump railed against immigrants Saturday afternoon in the Rust Belt, his supporters in the Deep South had turned his earlier broadsides into a rallying cry over a college football game as they prepared for the former president’s visit later in the evening. ...
Gilliam kicks 4 field goals and Alabama State defeats Bethune-Cookman 26-21
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Gilliam kicked four field goals and Alabama State held on to edge Bethune-Cookman 26-21 on Saturday in the Southwest Athletic Conference opener for both teams. After kicks from 49, 28 and 37 yards, Gilliam connected from 23 yards to make it 26-7...
Smith throws 2 TD passes to help North Alabama get first win, 25-16 over West Georgia
CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — TJ Smith threw two touchdown passes, Scott Payne kicked three field goals and North Alabama got its first win 25-16 over West Georgia on Saturday. Smith's second TD pass late in the third quarter put the Lions (1-5, 1-1 United Athletic Conference) on top...
Justice Department sues Alabama saying state is purging voter rolls too close to election
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its top election official, accusing the state of illegally purging people from voter rolls too close to the November election. Federal officials said the purge violates the “quiet...
Court revives lawsuit of Black pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbor's flowers
Montgomery, Ala. (AP) — The police officers who arrested a Black pastor while he watered his neighbor's plants can be sued, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, reversing a lower court judge's decision to dismiss the pastor's lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of...
Alabama police officer shot and killed a 68-year-old knife wielding man with dementia
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama police officer is being investigated for allegedly shooting and killing a 68-year-old man with dementia after his family called for help on Sunday, according to authorities and the family's lawyer. A Muscle Shoals police officer fatally shot...
Alabama puts man convicted of killing 3 to death in the country’s second nitrogen gas execution
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was...
