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A recent post on a group of Madison, Ala. parents who want to opt their children out of standardized testing in their public schools drew spirited responses from AL.com readers on both sides of the issue.Here is a sampling of...

Solar radiation can't pass through the Earth's atmosphere to harm humans on the ground, but it can interfere with GPS and radio signals

The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S District Court by Rafael Alberto Lloveras Linares claims he is an Orthodox Sephardic Jew and upon his arrival at the Etowah County Jail on March 16, he requested kosher meals.

Lynda Gaines, a teacher at Davis Hills Middle School, claims that she was denied a promised transfer of her own choosing due to negative comments her father told AL.com about the school district.

Out of 383 minorities that submitted applications for the current police academy, only three were hired.

A Morgan County man has turned himself in on charges of child sexual abuse.

The NWS staff has informed Panoply officials to expect a sunny, warm weekend for the 32nd annual festival.

Chew on this: Since it's March 2013 opening, the Community Free Dental Clinic has helped more than 1,700 people -- by pulling thousands of broken, diseased and aching teeth.

Marshall Director Patrick Scheuermann has now led two of NASA's most innovative centers

She understands that like the cotton that's grown around so much of Northwest Madison County, some things take time to grow, or in the case of her former neighbors, grow back.