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Maxine McNair, last living parent of a child killed in Birmingham church bombing, dies at 93

January 6, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Amy Yurkanin Maxine McNair, the last living parent of any of the children killed in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church, died Sunday at age 93. McNair’s daughter, Denise McNair, died […]

University of Alabama to require masks starting Tuesday, citing increase in COVID transmission

January 5, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Howard Koplowitz Masks will be required in classrooms and office buildings, among other locations, when the University of Alabama resumes operations Tuesday. On Monday, the university said the policy, which will be in effect for […]

Catherine Coleman Flowers on ‘60 Minutes’: Alabama sewage crisis ‘America’s dirty secret

December 31, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Ruth Serven Smith CBS show “60 Minutes” profiled Alabama activist and MacArthur genius award winner Catherine Coleman Flowers Sunday evening, with a deep dive into the Lowndes County sewage crisis. Wastewater treatment is often […]

Alabama’s white population dropped in latest Census as state grows more diverse

December 31, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Ramsey Archibald Alabama’s white population decreased over the last decade, even as the state’s overall population went up. The new data released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of the official 2020 Census […]

Alabama getting 780 courses of Pfizer COVID drug Paxlovid

December 31, 2021 Bouldin 0

By The Associated Press With COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases on the rise in Alabama, the state will have a limited number of doses of a new drug that can be used to treat the illness, health […]

Best county to live in Alabama

December 31, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Leada Gore Some of you might be asking yourself, at this very moment: is Alabama a good place? The answer is unequivocally yes… if you know where to locate the best places to live in […]

Starting in 2022, you can get $3,000 tax credit for building a storm shelter

December 31, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Leada Gore Starting Jan. 1, 2022, Alabamians who install a storm shelter may be eligible for a tax credit of up to $3,000. Under a bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Lovvorn, R-Auburn, eligible taxpayers can […]

Claudette Colvin’s 66-year-old assault conviction expunged; ‘I am no longer a juvenile delinquent’

December 23, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Roy S. Johnson Finally. Sixty-six years after she refused to leave her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus because a white woman didn’t want to sit next to the 15-year-old Black girl, nine months […]

Child tax credit: 91% of Alabamians used money for food, clothing, rent, utilities

December 23, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Leada Gore An overwhelming majority of Alabama families who receive monthly child tax credit payments used the money for basic things such as food, clothing, rent, mortgage and utilities, a study shows. Some 930,000 Alabama […]

‘We are devastated’: GoFundMe launched for burial of slain Tuscaloosa toddler

December 23, 2021 Bouldin 0

By Carol Robinson A GoFundMe has been launched to help with the burial of a toddler girl who police say died at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend. Raylean Richardson, 18 months old, was taken by ambulance […]