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Rockford Police were engaged in an hours-long standoff with an active shooting suspect barricaded inside a Super 8 motel Sunday morning.

Not a threat to the Gulf Coast

The children’s aunt, who was one of those arrested, was reportedly driving them from California to Oklahoma to help raise them away from a high-risk home life.

Public health experts warn that the pandemic, which has killed more than 88,000 people in the U.S. and 300,000 worldwide, could pick up again if precautions are not taken or people return to work too soon.

Officials say the 12-year-old’s death is a reminder to stay home and follow social distancing guidelines to try to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

This is the sixth straight year for a named storm to develop before the official June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season.

The cause of the explosion and fire is under investigation.

One of the Chattahoochee Valley’s biggest attractions is now back in business. Whitewater Express’ Whitewater Rafting is now open in Columbus.

Justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed during a pursuit by a white man and his son in Georgia, isn’t just prison time for his killers — it’s changes in a local justice system that never

Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS’s “The NFL Today,” has died. She was 70.