Down In Alabama With Ike Morgan

Today we're going to have AL.com's Kelly Kazek on the show to talk about a couple of old Alabama murder cases that seemed to be missing one vital part of every murder case: the actual dead person. For more on those stories click here. For more from Kelly, click here. First we have news items on Africanized honeybees, a new pedestrian-traffic pattern at a famous intersection, and what happened with that request for a judge to intervene on the new hemp law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're into music scenes in Alabama, you want to stick around for the second part of today's show. Our Caroline Vincent sat down with longtime Alabama music writers Mary Colurso and Matt Wake to talk about the brand-new Coca-Cola Amphitheater in Birmingham, the still-fairly-new Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, and how they might affect each other and their respective cities from business and cultural perspectives. That's in the second segment today. First, we'll have the hemp law in the courts, a new area code coming and the Miss Alabama results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're going to speak with AL.com reporter Ivana Hrynkiw, who's started a new investigative series with a story on a Death Row inmate who allegedly killed a woman at a crime scene at which we now know investigators collected only one person's DNA -- and it didn't belong to the guy found guilty. There's a lot to the case, and Ivana will break it down for us. Read Ivana's story here. See the stories from Ivana's "Denied" series here. First, we have stories on a fireball in broad daylight, what led to Tommy Tuberville's mosque invite, the FBI pausing a move to Redstone Arsenal, and remembering the poop cruise. Not to be confused with the poop train. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have an illegal-immigration raid, the passing of sports journalist John Pruett, a state Senate special election and a burglar in a Scooby Doo costume. We'll also speak with Haley Laurence for an update on the Unsung Alabama series. Click here to read stories from the Unsung Alabama series. Click here to share your favorite unsung barbecue restaurant in Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have where the Birmingham Water Works went, more bear sightings in North Alabama and Tommy Tuberville's take on protesters who block traffic. Plus, Leigh Morgan's going to join us to go over some hurricane-season terminology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National defense is the loose topic today. We have travel restrictions, space-defense contractors, and an arrest over the handling of classified documents. Also, let's caps the stellar high school career of a girls track star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's start off the week with a little crime-news roundup. Also, RIP sports reporter Rubin Grant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have news on the Olympic gymnastics trials, tragedy on the job, and a couple ways we're honoring baseball greats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a big steel deal that'll mean investment in our state, a man who's been stocking up firearms under a dead man's name, and a mayoral candidate who's found trouble looking for a little comfort. Then we're gonna check back in with This is Alabama's Haley Laurence and see what their "Unsung Alabama" series has uncovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today reporter John R. Roby's going to give us some of the latest news on President Trump's "Golden Dome" project and NASA's plans to get to the moon. Both those topics obviously affect defense-industry firms in Alabama and Marshall Space Flight Center. Click here to read more of John R. Roby's work. Also: NASA proposes new $45 million building for Marshall Space Flight Center’s Redstone campus First we have the most American automobiles of 2025, an Army base already rebranding, and a congresswoman's bill targeting the growing doctor shortage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have several lists and rankings and such, along with some general listicle thoughts. Also, the state has joined a pharmaceutical settlement, and UA has a new president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have some straw-poll numbers, a cockfighting bust ... and will bikini models come along with a future Sports Illustrated resort (don't get your hopes up). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're going to talk about a recent court settlement that should have a really big impact on college sports. Columnist and sports reporter Michael Casagrande will join us to help spell it out. See what Michael wrote about the topic here. See more of Michael's work here. Before that, we have updates on a $5 billion hydropower project, an effort to broaden the capital murder charge and some "No Kings" anti-Trump events in our state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we have a new old name for a military installation, world-record breaking quadruplets and the former VA chief suing the governor. Then after the break we'll have Haley Laurence of This is Alabama on the show to talk about a new series of stories they're doing on unsung places, people and things around the state. Click here to see stories from the Unsung Alabama series. Click here to offer story ideas for Unsung Alabama. (Tell 'em Ike sent you.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have another nitrogen execution, a name for the Land Between the Rivers, and Alabamians on your baseball All-Star Game ballots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are going to look at the last time a president overruled a governor to deploy the National Guard, a sheriff indicted, and who's in the old Golden Flake plant. Then after the break: We know we have more people hoping to move to Alabama, so we'll drop a PSA on the state's venomous snakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have a capital punishment case heading to the Supreme Court, the end of the line for another newspaper and what to do if you get an urgent text from the "Alabama DMV." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're going to have a guest take the Alabama News Quiz right here on the show. First, we have news updates on Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Big Beautiful Bill, the Sports Illustrated Resort and a not-so-great sign of summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's update Golden Dome in Huntsville, Water Works in Birmingham, swimming-pool fraud in Muscle Shoals and free fishing almost everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we have reporter John Sharp on to talk about freedom of information and how Alabama agencies continue to drag up the rear among states in getting information out that you and I have a right to see. Read John's reporting on public information here. First, we have evolving vape sales rules, a historic library's reopening, and a contraband air-drop into a prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices