Democrat Parker Griffith says he will give up his salary if elected governor and redirect the money to public education. Griffith said Monday that he’d also sell the state plane and helicopter used by Republican incumbent Robert Bentley. Griffith says Bentley has made 480 flights since becoming governor and he’s wasting taxpayer dollars. Bentley’s spokeswoman, Rebekah Mason, says he uses…
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More than 11 million prescriptions for antibiotics written for children and teens every year may be unnecessary, according to a new study published in the journal “Pediatrics.”
Montgomery Public Schools are taking extra precautions after a virus sent hundreds of Mid-Western States children to the hospital. Every school in the system is getting a thorough cleaning to prevent the spread of the Enterovirus. The virus is a respiratory disease that can look like a cold. The Alabama Department of Public Health is working with the CDC to prevent a breakout…
Huntingdon College and Southern Union State Community College have signed a “reverse transfer” agreement. The agreement allows Southern State students who transfer to Huntingdon to transfer credits back to Southern State to go toward their associate’s degree. Officials with each school say the agreement will benefit transfer students, as well as workforce development. “So now, working with southern union, facilitating that whole…
Filmmaker Rusty Cundieff says his latest project, “White Water,” is scheduled to begin filming Monday in Opelika and the surrounding area. The Opelika-Auburn News reports  that the film is based on the book “White Water,” written by Eric Stein and Michael Bandy. The story line involves a 9-year-old black child dealing with racial tension in the South in the 1960s….
Police say a shooting in Birmingham has left one man dead and a woman critically injured. Police say officers responded to reports of a shooting around 6:30 a.m. Sunday on Bessemer Road. They found the man and the woman — both with gunshot wounds — on the ground outside their vehicle. Al.com reports that both victims were taken to UAB…
A church in Birmingham is marking the anniversary of a deadly Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four black girls in 1963. The 16th Street Baptist Church planned to hold a service Monday to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the blast. Bells will toll at 10:22 a.m., the approximate time the bomb went off on a Sunday morning at the…
Ben Bolton is the weekend sports anchor for Alabama News Network. Ben came to Montgomery after graduating from the University of Georgia and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications. He also worked as a temporary news reporter at WRBL in Columbus, Georgia, in 2013. Ben grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He played almost every sport, and competed on…
