BOAZ, Ala. (WAFF) - It’s almost Groundhog Day and the yearly north Alabama tradition with an opossum kicked off on Friday in Boaz. Sand Mountain Sam is an opossum that predicts the weather around Feb.

Dubbed Sand-E, the beach cleaning robot was developed by 27 students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The team had wanted to come up with a solution to assist ...