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University officials announced Monday that only 40% of undergraduates will be invited to campus in an effort to reduce density and prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The World Health Organization has long maintained that COVID-19 is spread via larger respiratory droplets, most often when people cough or sneeze, that fall to the ground.

The diagnostic swab test can yield results in 15 minutes.

The money will be used to help schools meet the policies established in the Alabama State Department of Education’s Roadmap to Reopening Schools.

Country music legend Charlie Daniels died Monday at the age of 83 at a hospital in Hermitage, Tenn., his publicist said.

A man is in critical condition after being shot in Opelika over the holiday weekend.

Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor is holding a press conference after a police officer was arrested.

Noem didn’t wear a mask on the plane and chatted with the president as the flight returned to Washington, D.C., according to her spokesperson, Maggie Seidel.

“This was the last day of the holiday for us before I have to go back to work. I’m just spending time with my granddaughter today and trying to get some Fourth of July in.”