Culture

By Margaret Kates Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is expecting his first child with wife Kendra Woodfin, he announced on Facebook Sunday. “Kendra, LOVE is beautiful! LOVE is all we need!” Woodfin captioned a photo of the couple, with […]

By Mary Colurso  Ali Mims is the new Miss Alabama’s Teen. The 16-year-old from Shelby County was crowned on Sunday at Thompson High School in Alabaster. She competed as Miss Hoover’s Teen, besting 37 other contestants for the state title. […]

By Tandra Smith George Robert Langford, former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Birmingham office, and most well known for reopening the case of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in the 1990s, has died. […]

By Mark Inabinett In a feature for the New England Patriots’ website after his first season with the NFL team, defensive tackle Christian Barmore said his favorite football memory was walking onto the field with his mother for Senior Day […]

By Cody D. Short The cast of the popular 1980s and ‘90s NBC sitcom “A Different World” is coming to Alabama during a tour that’s hitting historically Black college and university campuses. The cast members […]

By Michael Dumas When Taylor Nicks found out she’d been chosen to be the queen of the Mobile Mardi Gras Association for 2024, one of the things she began looking forward to the most was spending […]

By Cody D. Short Author LaDarrion Williams, originally from Helena, is making his mark with his first fantasy book called, “Blood at the Root.” Williams wrote a post on Facebook that has more than 12,000 shares and 6,000 […]

By Matt Wake He’s covered everything from deadly north Alabama tornadoes to Luke Skywalker. Along the way, Jerry Hayes has won multiple regional Emmy Awards and been nominated at least a dozen times. Now, Hayes, the longtime […]

By Warren Kulo  The New York Times’ list of the “52 Places to Go in 2024″ includes a number of the usual suspects: Paris, Maui, Singapore, Geneva and the Caribbean. But mixed in among those exotic […]