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For the second year in a row, Alabama chef Timothy Hontzas of Johnny’s Restaurant in Homewood has been named a finalist for the James Beard Award for best chef in the South. Also, Birmingham’s Bottega restaurant is a first-time finalist for outstanding hospitality. The James Beard Foundation announced...

Alabama chef, restaurant named finalists for 2023 James Beard Awards

Today is National Vietnam War Veterans Day. And this year it’s a big one: It’s the 50th anniversary of the last combat troops leaving South Vietnam. Famously, with politics being what they are, Vietnam veterans have learned not to always hold their breath waiting on a consensus of admiration, but over the past couple of White House administrations there were moves made to encourage Americans to show their appreciation for the service members of a half-century ago. President Obama issued a proclamation in 2012 regarding 50-year anniversaries from 2012-2025, and President Trump signed a law that made today “National Vietnam War Veterans Day.”

Officer’s death, UAB basketball, Vietnam anniversary: Down in Alabama

Sign up for Alabamafication: Kyle Whitmire’s newsletter, “Alabamafication” examines the outsized influence of this very strange state, taking aim at corruption, cruelty, incompetence and hypocrisy while also seeking out those righteous folks making their state and country better places for all. This is an opinion column. One...

Kay Ivey finds school money for water park, prisons — but not Medicaid expansion

The Jefferson County Memorial Project (JCMP) recently unveiled the official design for their Linn Park memorial dedicated to victims of racial violence to the Birmingham City Council. “We’re really really excited so the support of the county and the City of Birmingham is really important to us,” said newly appointed...

Jefferson County Memorial Project unveils design to Birmingham City Council

Tuscaloosa, AL

Alabama political powerhouse Matrix LLC and its founder, Joe Perkins, have begun the process to collect on its $1.5 million judgment against Donald Watkins after Watkins exhausted his appeals in the defamation case surrounding the suicide of Meghan Rondini. Watkins is a long-time figure in Alabama business and politics who...

Matrix, Joe Perkins start collections against Donald Watkins in $1.5M Meghan Rondini defamation case

The $5 million allocated to The World Games 2022 in Gov. Kay Ivey’s record $8.8 billion Education Trust Fund will allow organizers to finally close the books on the $14.1 million debt incurred from the 10-day event, CEO Nick Sellers said in a statement to AL.com. “The World Games...

$5 million World Games allocation in Ivey’s education budget will ‘satisfy’ remaining debt, CEO says

Texas State

Huntsville, AL

This is an opinion column. It hurts to see the news sometimes. Two Huntsville Police officers were shot yesterday, apparently trying to save a woman from a violent man. Officer Garrett Crumby is dead. Officer Albert Morin is fighting for his life. We can only imagine the knocks on the...

Archibald: In wave of violence, where do our thoughts and prayers go?

A former G.W. Carver-Montgomery prep star is returning to Alabama. Jaykwon Walton, a 6-foot-7 guard from Wichita State, announced his transfer to the Crimson Tide men’s basketball team on Tuesday. Walton announced his decision on social media to Joe Tipton. In 28 games, Walton averaged 32.3 minutes a game,...

Alabama basketball lands transfer guard with high school ties to state

Sure hope UAB coach Andy Kennedy took Ty Brewer to the craps table after the Blazers’ historic NIT semifinal victory in Las Vegas. The UAB basketball player tossed around hot magic all night against Utah Valley. Someone needed to keep rocks in his hands and let him work the tables after wearing out the nets.

Goodman: UAB is on a heater out in Vegas

Twice a month, the city of Birmingham’s Design Review Committee convenes to discuss plans to make alterations to structures that fall within one of the city’s many historic and commercial revitalization districts. This column summarizes recent DRC activity with projects grouped by type and location. This edition of Design Review recaps the DRC meeting from March 22, 2023.

Birmingham Design Review Committee: updates to 1917-era theatre district storefront leads approvals

On the 50th anniversary of the last combat troops leaving Vietnam, veterans of the war will be honored Wednesday in events across Alabama. Though the war did not formally end for another two years, the final U.S. troops departed the east Asian country on March 29, 1973. North Vietnam also released the last remaining prisoners of war that day. The exit of the troops came two months after the signing of a peace agreement, which ended eight years of the direct intervention by the U.S.

Alabama vets to be honored today on 50th anniversary of Vietnam troop withdrawal

Third-year Alabama Crimson Tide guard Nimari Burnett entered the transfer portal Tuesday, a source confirmed to AL.com. Burnett began this season as a starter before suffering a wrist injury in early December. He returned to the lineup in late January and came off the bench for the remainder of the season. Burnett averaged 14.6 minutes and 5.6 points per game, starting nine of the 27 games he played.

Alabama basketball player Nimari Burnett enters transfer portal

Las Vegas, NV

Good evening, the UAB basketball team is at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas tonight and earned a hard-fought 88-86 overtime victory over Utah Valley in the NIT semifinals. The Blazers improve to 29-9 overall -- winning 16 of their last 18 games and setting the program record for wins in a season -- and advance to face C-USA rival North Texas in the NIT title game on Thursday at 8:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2. UAB defeated Southern Miss and Morehead State at home in the first two rounds of the NIT, advanced to Las Vegas with a quarterfinal win at Vanderbilt last week and is one win shy of hoisting a postseason trophy for the first time in program history.

Rewinding UAB’s 88-86 OT win over Utah Valley in NIT semifinal

It’s the breakfast for champions for Ty Brewer and the rest of the UAB basketball team may be ordering themselves a serving or two following the former’s career outing on a national stage. The Blazers got a career-high double-double from Brewer and held off a feisty rally in...

‘Anything and everything’: Ty Brewer’s career night carries UAB past Utah Valley in NIT semifinal

Moody, AL

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrapping up its two-month operations at the site of the Moody landfill fire northeast of Birmingham. EPA On-scene Coordinator Subash Patel said EPA personnel will remain to monitor the landfill into April, but that most of the agency’s work is finished. “We are...

EPA says cleanup of Moody landfill fire reaching ‘final stages’

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Fayetteville, TN

A New York City man has been charged with four counts of vehicular homicide following a fatal crash Sunday evening on a Tennessee interstate highway, which claimed the lives of at least two Alabamians. Kingsport (Tenn.) police Public Information Officer Thomas Patton said the incident happened about 7 p.m. Sunday...

4 killed, 2 from Alabama, in Tennessee highway crash

Cullman, AL

An Alabama man remains in jail, accused of killing a Florida father in the presence of a small child at the center of a custody dispute. At a press conference today announcing an additional arrest in the case, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson referred to the suspect from Alabama as “a human piece of trash.”

Sheriff: Alabama man accused of killing Florida father in front of child is ‘human piece of trash’

Anniston, AL

Two suspects were arrested Monday in connection with the deaths of a man and a woman in Anniston over the weekend, police said. Randy Wayne King, 42, and Ronnie Lee King, 67, were arrested two days after Ricky Ward Jr., 27, was found dead in a ditch and Laura Jean Thornton, 55, was shot and critically wounded, Anniston police said Monday. Both victims were from Anniston.

2 charged in connection with deaths of man, woman in Anniston

A shooting outside of Birmingham’s East Lake Park Tuesday afternoon left two men wounded, one of them seriously. Birmingham police at 12:40 p.m. received a call of person shot in the 8100 block of Fourth Avenue. When they arrived, they found an adult male near the tennis courts who had been shot, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.

Shooting outside Birmingham’s East Lake Park leaves 2 wounded

Authorities have released the name of a 17-year-old killed in a Sunday afternoon shootout in southwest Birmingham. Police identified the victim as Caleb Cornandus Whitt. He had attended Jackson-Olin High School, where he was a senior. “We have suffered the loss of a student in Birmingham City Schools and our...

‘Our hearts are deeply saddened’: Authorities ID 17-year-old high school senior killed in Birmingham shootout

A man was killed in a hail of bullets in Birmingham’s West End neighborhood Tuesday morning. The city’s gunfire detection system – Shot Spotter – alerted Birmingham police to nearly 40 rounds fired shortly after 9:30 a.m. in an area police have been called to more than once in recent days.

Hail of gunfire leaves 1 dead in Birmingham’s 8th killing in 8 days

Firefighters responding to a blaze at an Ensley home early Monday found a woman partially hanging out of a window from where she had tried to escape. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service responded to the fire just before 1 a.m. at the residence in the 1000 block of 45th Street, said Battalion Chief Tobias Jones.

Woman critically injured in predawn fire at Birmingham home

A man was shot and killed in an apparent ambush while he was pumping gas at a Birmingham convenience store Sunday evening. Investigators believe the victim, whose identity has not yet been released, returned fire before he collapsed and died on the scene. The victim’s father was killed nearly five...

Man killed in ambush while pumping gas at busy Birmingham store; crowd of more than 100 at emotional scene

Gunfire erupted in southwest Birmingham on Sunday afternoon, leaving one person dead. Birmingham police responded shortly after noon to University Crossings apartments, formerly known as Montevallo Gardens, in the Titusville community after Shot Spotter indicated multiple shots fired. They found the teen unresponsive in the back parking lot of the...

Shootout leaves teen dead in southwest Birmingham; at least 50 shots fired

A 51-year-old suspect has been charged in the weekend ambush killing of a man at a Birmingham gas station. Byron Dedric Steele, of Birmingham, is charged with capital murder in the Sunday evening slaying of 25-year-old Demetrius Antwan Davis Jr. Police said the deadly shooting was carried out in retaliation...

51-year-old suspect charged in killing at Birmingham Circle K; police say retaliation fueled the deadly ambush

A suspect has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a 30-year-old Birmingham man one week ago. Police on Monday announced the arrest of 25-year-old Jamarian Carpenter. He is charged in the March 20 slaying of Devarta Dedre Thomas. Carpenter is charged with capital murder because authorities...

Suspect charged with capital murder of man found dead on Birmingham roadway

Jefferson County, AL

Brighton, AL

An investigation is underway after a body was found in western Jefferson County over the weekend. The discovery was made at 10:56 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of Fifth Avenue in Brighton. Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies and Brighton firefighters responded to the scene and found the adult male unresponsive...

Man found dead on Jefferson County road after being dumped from vehicle

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Guest opinion: Birmingham-Southern College alum asking hard questions about public bailout

As a 1982 graduate of Birmingham-Southern College, it pains me to see the financial condition it has fallen into that now threatens its viability as an...

Guest opinion: Birmingham-Southern College alum asking hard questions about public bailout

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