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The Next Round Alabama News Center College Football Preview: Championship Week
Alabama Crimson Tide fans will be watching conference championship games a bit differently this weekend. Tide fans normally have a rooting interest with their team in the SEC Championship. Not so this year with Texas and Georgia playing for that title. Instead, Alabama fans are pulling for SMU to beat Clemson in the ACC Championship….
Alabama Food Truck Favorites: Frank n Lola’s
A Port City food truck favorite started out as a hot dog vendor by a husband-and-wife team who aren’t named Frank and Lola and whose food truck is best known for smash burgers. Confused yet? You won’t be once you give Frank n Lola’s a try. The name comes from dogs, not the culinary kind…
James Spann: Cold, dry weather for Alabama today; rain returns by Sunday night
COLD: Here are some temperatures across Alabama just before sunrise this morning: Cullman — 18 Decatur — 18 Fort Payne — 19 Haleyville — 19 Huntsville — 20 Springville — 20 Good Hope — 22 Birmingham — 22 Hueytown — 22 Muscle Shoals — 22 Margaret — 22 Morris — 22 Heflin — 22 Gadsden…
James Spann: Colder air moving into Alabama today; hard freeze tonight
RADAR CHECK: We have a few sprinkles across the southern half of Alabama early this morning; the light rain will end later this morning as colder, drier air moves in from the north. For most of the state, the sky becomes partly sunny today with highs ranging from the upper 40s across the northern counties…