It was in 1978 that Dr. Kathryn Coumanis, a supervisor for the Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR), realized a specific need for women in Alabama. There was a growing problem with domestic violence, and although there were shelters for children, the mothers had nowhere to go. Women were forced to hide in expensive rentals or crash with friends and family who could inadvertently be at risk themselves.
UNA and Alabama stay hot, Troy falls at Marshall and UAH enters the final week tied with West Alabama for the Gulf South Conference lead.
Saturday, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) made an appearance on Newsmax TV's "Saturday Agenda" to respond to the Biden administration's inability to contain the flow of drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a big day for the SEC, with a huge win for Alabama and a critical victory for Kentucky in Rupp, Auburn’s NCAA Tournament resume took a significant blow with a loss to Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Just days after dropping their first SEC game of the season, Alabama bounced back, returning to their No. 1 form blowing out Georgia 108-59.
KJ Buffen and Ty Brewer keyed a second-half comeback and Jelly Walker heats up in the final minutes during UAB's win over UTSA.
Thirteen players score at least a basket in Samford's win over VMI on Saturday.
Michael Travis Head, now 36, was only 16 years old when he shot and killed his father and stepmother in their Rock Stand home in east Alabama in August 2002. It was the most gruesome death scene the sheriff at the time said he ever saw in his 35-year career in law enforcement. However, for Head, he said it was the ending of an even more tragic life he said he had been living for years.
Thirty-five states — including Alabama — currently employ Certificate of Need (CON) laws in health care, which require approval for new facilities in an industry.
Brock Heasley grew up loving movies. Now, he's taking his first crack at directing a full-length film, and he’s doing it right here in Alabama. Earlier this month, Brock and his team occupied a street in Birmingham to film scenes of “The Shift,” a retelling of the book of Job set in a science fiction dystopia.
According to U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile), federal resources are being allocated to the so-called woke agenda, some of which runs counter to the beliefs of many Americans. Carl hopes to soon put an end to it.
The editorial board for Auburn University’s primary campus newspaper, The Auburn Plainsman, released an opinion piece in response to the list of white racial slurs leaked from a group message titled “AU Connect.”
Friday, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced that Alabama’s men's basketball coach Nate Oats was named to the late-season watch list for the 2023 Werner Ladder Naismith Men’s Coach of the Year, a prestigious honor awarded to the most outstanding coach in college basketball.
Most of us have much less to lose than Margaret Court. So why don’t we speak the truth as boldly?
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) has joined in a number of additional legislative efforts to combat illegal immigration and trafficking at the southern border.
Samford has a one-game lead over Furman and UNC Greensboro with three Southern Conference games left to play.
Corizon Health Services, a former prison health care provider to the state of Alabama, declared bankruptcy this week.
Anna Syrova traveled from Ukraine to Jacksonville, Alabama to play college tennis and attend school at Jacksonville State.
While some community health departments continue to deal with the lingering effects of COVID-19, the Mobile County Health Department has moved on to tackle other so-called threats.
State rep. Chip Brown (R-Hollinger's Island) has pre-filed the second legislative step in Alabama’s 2021 sexual assault survivors bill of rights.
South Alabama, Troy and UNA stay hot in conference play. West Alabama and UAH remain at the top of the Gulf South Conference.
The Mobile County District Attorney's Office is thankful for a conviction after what the DA called a difficult case to present.
Two Republican members of the Alabama congressional delegation are battling an abortion policy recently adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense which makes it easier for female soldiers in pro-life states to get abortions where they are legal.
State Rep. Shane Stringer (R-Citronelle) is apparently reconsidering his 2021 "yes" vote on legislation that retroactively applied a 2015 mandatory release law to all inmates before 2015.
Last week, students at Asbury University, a private Christian school in Kentucky, assembled for their biweekly chapel service in the school’s auditorium. But when the chapel service was scheduled to end, the worship kept going.
The Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA) is pushing for Birmingham Southern College (BSC) to receive a bailout from the State Legislature, according to its new list of legislative priorities for 2023.
NCAA Division I baseball teams throughout the state get their first games in this weekend.