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Eight Mile store clerk beaten during 2013 robbery among the few who have gotten restitution from prisoner stimulus money

By BRENDAN KIRBY Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Melissa Powell endured a harrowing assault during a robbery nearly a decade ago, and although her attacker went to prison, he did not pay a dime of the $4,685 in restitution. Then the defendant, Joseph Scott Caples, came into some unexpected

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‘People loved her’: Father of teen allegedly killed by man out on bond for murder remembers daughter

By TYLER FINGERT Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Photos is how friends and family of 18-year-old Jireh Portis remember her. Pictures and memories are now all they have left. The teenager was killed overnight. Police say at the hands of her boyfriend. “People loved her,” said her father Darrel

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Vandals damage baseball facility in South Nashville

By Marissa Sulek Click here for updates on this story     https://www.wsmv.com/news/vandals-damage-baseball-facility-in-south-nashville/article_1ab8ea1a-74cf-11ec-acc0-3bd8fd55ad66.html?block_id=994460 (WSMV) — A youth baseball facility in South Nashville is now out thousands of dollars after vandalism at the building earlier this month. This incident was the second time that someone or someones had broken into the facility. The first was in the fall

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Albuquerque city officials say crematorium is operating without a permit; operators say they have no choice

By John Cardinale Click here for updates on this story     ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (KOAT) — City officials say it’s supposed to be closed. “That facility shouldn’t be operating currently,” said Mark DiMenna, director of Albuquerque’s Environmental Health Department. Neighbors say the smell is toxic. “I really don’t know what dead bodies smelling smells like, but

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