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By Erik Ortiz www.msn.com Brookside, a former mining community of about 1,250 near Birmingham, with a median household income less than $40,000, has no traffic lights...

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For The Birmingham Times Former Alabama State University football quarterback Rickey Jones remembers the Magic City Classic of his senior season as...

By Donald Hunt Special to the Times When Miles College visits Kentucky State on Saturday there’s a good chance the Golden Bears running game could be...

lawsonstate.edu Dr. Perry W. Ward, president of Lawson State Community College has announced his retirement, effective August 31. Ward’s retirement closes a chapter of leadership that...

By Linda Coleman-Madison This is an opinion column “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” -- Abraham Lincoln I have been distressed to see the Alabama Democratic...

By Rory Sharrock ©2016, The Shadow League By Losing the NBA Finals to Cleveland, Golden State Lets Immortality Escape Them To the victor go the spoils of...

BY KATHLEEN HENNESSEY WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama opened his State of the Union speech saying he'd keep it short, in what must have...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is promising President Barack Obama will deliver a “non-traditional” State of the Union address next month, eschewing the...

By Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the first time since the civil rights movement, the Confederate flag was removed entirely from the South Carolina...

The Congresswoman says the Confederate flag is a part of the South’s past, and that is where it should remain Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Terri...