Know your rights, says DOJ at Bham confab
U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and staff hosted a civil rights and hate crimes symposium downtown recently, offering a broad view of the rights that…
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This McMahon’s no second banana
Ed McMahon is an Alabama-born star in the world of sustainable development and has speaking engagements scheduled in Montevallo and Birmingham September 20.
Wandering the Lyric at Midnight
The Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group searched for ghosts at the historic Lyric Theatre downtown recently. Read about what they found.
Don’t stop learning: Samford offers non-credit classes
Non-credit courses like those offered at Samford and Jeff State have long been a fun, inexpensive way for people to take up new hobbies or…
Opposition continues to Reed and Shepherd Bend mines
Opposition continues to proposed coal-strip mines to be located on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River, with protests, petitions and a new legal…
Excessive Force? Groups fight use of Mace in Bham schools
The NAACP and others are concerned about the use of Mace on students in Birmingham city schools.
Helping Johnny read: Be a literacy tutor
The Literacy Council of Central Alabama is training adult literacy tutors, and the LCCA needs you, what with 90,000 illiterate adults in their five-county service…
Let me hear you SHOUT: Gay film fest to offer two early screenings
SHOUT, Alabama's only gay & lesbian film festival, will offer two early screenings in the days prior to the main festival.
Hearing to be held regarding Reed Mine
Alabama Surface Mining Commission will host a public hearing about a controversial coal strip mine on Aug. 9 at 6 p.m. at Bevill State College…
Vaudeville performers to host Lyric Theatre benefit at Sloss
Local show folk -- including belly dancers, fire artists, burlesque performers and a human blockhead -- will raise money for the Lyric Theatre at a…