Christopher Sign, Alabama news anchor, dies at 45

Christopher Sign, a former University of Alabama football player who became a familiar face anchoring the weekday evening newscasts in Birmingham, Alabama, has died. He was 45 years old and his death is being investigated as a suicide.

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