Authorities say a 5-year-old girl was shot and killed during a New Year’s Eve party in Athens. Local media report that Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely says officers went to a home a few minutes after midnight and found the girl shot in the chest. A news release from the sheriff says investigators determined that a man, identified as Fidel…
The nation’s coal mines are nearing a new low mark for on-the-job deaths for the third year in a row and have a chance to keep the number of fatal accidents in single digits for the first time. With just a day left in 2016, U.S. coal mines have recorded nine deaths. West Virginia had four. Kentucky had two deaths…
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a woman can pursue a wrongful-death lawsuit against an obstetrician after a miscarriage when she was five to six weeks pregnant. Justices on Friday reversed a trial judge’s order dismissing the wrongful-death claim. In the civil case ruling, the justices cited a 2009 state law making it a crime to kill or harm…
Gov. Robert Bentley has announced a $100,000 grant to provide the tools to help 18 Alabama cities excel and reach their potential. Funds from the Appalachian Regional Commission will enable Alabama Communities of Excellence Inc. to continue to provide training and develop leaders in the communities taking part in the program designed to help strengthen smaller Alabama cities and towns…
Tom Surtees, who served under two governors as Revenue Commissioner and Labor Commissioner has died. The Alabama Department of Labor says Surtees died after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Surtees was appointed as Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Revenue in 2004 by Governor Bob Riley. He served in that capacity until 2007, when he was appointed…
The report comes from “Stateline”, a project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. It names Hawaii as the healthiest state and Mississippi as the least healthy, But Alabama is right behind our neighbor state to the West, ranked 50th. They report: “VCU and the Urban Institute recently released the first of nine reports examining the states according to…
All nine electors voted for Donald Trump for president and Mike Pence for Vice President. Political analyst Steve Flowers says that’s exactly what he expected from a state that overwhelmingly supported Trump. “It was a very elegant ceremony. It was a coronation, there were no surprises. None of the 9 bolted,” said Flowers. This was the first year that the…
Alabama is hiring another former USC head coach as offensive coordinator. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban announced Friday that Steve Sarkisian will replace Lane Kiffin, who has taken over the Florida Atlantic program. Sarkisian will also coach the quarterbacks. Kiffin is expected to run the offense through the playoffs. The top-ranked Tide meets Washington Dec. 31 in the Peach Bowl…
What once was thought to have disappeared completely from the state’s waterways has reared its slimy head once again. Local scientists have been on a years-long hunt for the elusive – and large – hellbender salamander in Alabama’s southern creek beds. Large, with a flat body, four short legs, toes, tail and baggy-brown skin the hellbender can grow up to…
The website 24/7 Wall Street has ranked the states and come up with a list of the ten worst for Black Americans. Alabama is ranked 10th, the only Deep South State on the list. Wisconsin Minnesota Illinois Ohio Michigan Connecticut Pennsylvania Virginia Kansas Alabama The website officials say they developed the list by examining factors like “….median household income,…
