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During the winter season with young children, it seems like colds, flu and viruses run rampant. It is just that time of year when it is cold outside and more activity is done inside rather than outside. The old saying, “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy,...

OPELIKA — Opelika's varsity girls basetball team (8-12, A1-3) split a pair of games last week, beating LaFayette (56-21) and losing to area foe Smiths Station (53-47).  The Lady Bulldogs traveled to Wadley to play LaFayette at Southern Union State Community...

By SEAN DIETRICH They called her Mama. Everyone at Waffle House knew her that way. Few knew her real name. To them, she was “Mama.” “She was everyone’s mother,” said the Waffle House cook, standing over a flat-top stove. The older woman was cooking my eggs,...

By SAM DICHIARA You’ve either experienced it yourself or at least heard of it: Your family is gathered around a table for Thanksgiving dinner when your uncle says something like, “Liberals are just socialists!” And your aunt fires back, “Oh yeah? Well conservatives...