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MOBILE, Alabama-- The USA Mitchell Cancer Institute, USA Children's and Women's Hospital and the Ronald McDonald House charities are hosting the second annual Cancer Survivor's Day Western Roundup, in recognition of National Cancer Survivor's Day on June 1. Participants are...

For her "steadfast and unrelenting leadership with the preservation and promotion of Fort Mims," and noting that she has "dedicated most of her life to restoring the historic site to a condition reflecting the importance of the historic actions that took place in 1813," the Alabama Historical Commission honored Claudia Slaughter Campbell with its 2014 Distinguished Service Award at its annual banquet held in Muscle Shoals in April.

The Chickasaw City Schools system concluded its second full year of operations on May 29, and has a busy summer ahead, with an anniversary party coming up on June 5, a formal handover of Hamilton Elementary from the Mobile County school system, and summer enrichment programs starting June 2.

Under the settlement, Daphne has agreed to allow Baton Rouge, La.-based Lamar to erect one digital billboard in the city on U.S. 98 in exchange for the removal of five existing billboards and the scrapping of plans for five proposed signs, which originally sparked the litigation in April 2007.

AL.com reporter Brendan Kirby will be among the panelists questioning Sheriff Huey "Hoss" Mack, former Chief Deputy Larry Milstid and Jeff Dunn, an investigator with the Baldwin County District Attorney's Office.

Armed with a gun, a stranger got into a man's vehicle on the pretense that he had run out of gas Wednesday night. He robbed the vehicle's driver at gunpoint before forcing the driver to take him to another location, according to the Mobile Police Department.

A Mobile man died on Wednesday night after he struck a tree while driving two miles east of Grove Hill, according to Alabama State Troopers.

Brad Pitt is accosted on the red carpet at "Maleficent" premiere

Showers and thunderstorms will continue Thursday and some of the storms could produce heavy rain

Prichard Water Board Chairman Russell Heidelburg said the June 3 referendum could have repercussions on Mobile County residents. Opponents to the Water Board have called his comments political "scare tactics."