Tag: recent stories
UAB Shares How Quitting Smoking is Necessary, and Possible
By Brianna Hoge | UAB News
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention categorizes nicotine as a chemical compound that is highly addictive. Nicotine can...
‘We Grown Now,’ Film Starring Birmingham’s Blake James, 13, Now in...
The Birmingham Times
Thirteen-year-old Blake James is back home. And he can be seen in area theatres starring in “We Grown Now” playing at AMC...
Meet Performers in this Weekend’s Concert of Opera’s Greatest Hits
The Birmingham Times
Opera Unveiled: A Concert of Greatest Hits will take place at the Dorothy Jemison Day Theater at Alabama School of Fine Arts...
Inside a Birmingham City School’s Pathway to Professional Nursing
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | The Birmingham Times
Maria Manuel, a ninth-grade student at Huffman High School, wants to be an ultrasound technician.
“The most interesting thing...
UAB, Birmingham to Expand Mini Medical School Program
By Hannah Echols | UAB News
Shaundra Blakemore, M.D., and Brian Sims, M.D., Ph.D., were once students in the Birmingham City Schools system who had...
Deborah Thedford-Zimmerman: Hard at Work — In Retirement
By Javacia Harris Bowser | For the Birmingham Times
Ask Deborah Thedford-Zimmerman what she does in a typical week, and it will be hard to...
Birmingham Makes Arrests for Exhibition Driving, Seizes Guns; More Enforcement to...
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | The Birmingham Times
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said Tuesday that a Birmingham Police Department operation launched earlier this month aimed at...
‘I Did the Traditional Down-on-One-Knee Proposal, and She Said, ‘Yes’’
BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times
HERNANDO & ADRIENNE CARTER
Live: Homewood
Married: March 22, 2003
Met: September 2001, in the Volker Hall parking...
Michael Jordan’s Competitive Drive Victorious at Talladega Superspeedway
By Paul Newberry | AP National Writer
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Suddenly, Michael Jordan's new life seems just as satisfying as his old one. This felt...
Libby’s Friends Provides Support for Families With Special Needs Children
By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times
Libby’s Friends, a nonprofit that assists families with a child who has a disability, has won its share...
