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The Hip-Hop Cosign (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Birmingham Records rapper Lil Haze is set to rip the stage during the kick-off of the 2008 Black College Football season. Lil Haze will be one of the premiere artists for the Black College Football Tour, sponsored by the Atlanta-based NDa’ Game Entertainment, starting August 31, 2008 in Birmingham, AL. The 23 year-old rapper, who recently signed an independent record deal [...]
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Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
It looks as if things seem to be getting even more heated in Birmingham over the Central Alabama Gay Pride Week Parade controversy. On August 26, the Birmingham-based GLBT right organization, Central Alabama Pride, Inc., has filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court in Birmingham against the City of Birmingham and the Mayor on the basis of violation of constitutional rights by not allowing city workers...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Gov. Bob Riley negotiated with creditors Friday over whether Alabama's largest county should seek a deal on its $3.2 billion sewer debt or file the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's Jefferson County and lenders pulled back from the brink of a threatened bankruptcy filing on Friday after the county proposed restructuring $3.2 billion of soured sewer debt.
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Overheard in the Office (Free subscription) | yesterday
Woman (looking at new drinks) : I don't need more drinks to choose from. I'm not that interested in beverages. I like my Diet Coke, I like my vodka, and that's all I need. Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, Alabama Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | wtf? Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-08-29
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APM: Marketplace (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the mid-90's Alabama's Jefferson County issued $3 billion in bonds to pay for a new sewer system. But now the loan might end up dragging the county, which includes Birmingham, into the gutter. And Wall Street's not happy. Andrew Yeager reports.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's governor and Wall Street lenders bargained on Friday ahead of the expiration of a stand-still pact in a bid to avert a bankruptcy filing on $3.2 billion of debt by the state's most populous county.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
ATLANTA - SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), suits up this fall in support of high school football in Alabama, Georgia and Florida. The company is sponsoring giveaways, an award program and radio coverage of high school games in Birmingham, Ala., Clanton, Ala., Dothan, Ala
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The Joy of Sox (Free subscription) | yesterday
Josh Beckett has been scratched from his start on Friday night -- and will pay a visit to Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham, Alabama, in the hopes of getting some answers about his right elbow discomfort. The Red Sox say the visit is strictly precautionary . Theo Epstein: We don't feel comfortable pitching him unless he is 100 percent because we have to take his long term interests and the team's long...
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Votelaw (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Birmingham News report begins: Winners in Tuesday's municipal election in Calera may not be able to take office if the U.S. Justice Department doesn't approve a 2008 redistricting plan before November. In addition, runoffs between mayoral candidates Bobby Joe...
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Votelaw (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Birmingham News report begins: The Jefferson County Republican Party asked a judge Wednesday to include Andrew Smith's name on the November ballot for the unexpired assistant tax assessor's term in Bessemer although Smith didn't qualify for the spot. The...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Intravenous magnesium sulfate supplementation before preterm delivery cuts the risk for handicapping cerebral palsy in half, according to research led by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) obstetrician Dwight Rouse, M.D., and published in the Aug. 28 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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ModBlog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
I had decided to bequeath all her organs to the University of Alabama, Birmingham's Anatomical Donor Program (i.e. Making a bequest of my body to medical research after my death).
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Intravenous magnesium sulfate supplementation before preterm delivery cuts the risk for handicapping cerebral palsy in half, according to research led by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) obstetrician Dwight Rouse, M.D., and published in the Aug. 28 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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hitsgaloremedia | 06/30/2008
Season 2 winner of American Idol, Ruben Studdard, tied the knot this past weekend in Alabama. Approximately 300 people attended the event, according to the Birmingham News. The couple celebrated their reception local style, at Rosewood Hall. A photo of the newly married published in the Birmingham News couple shows Ruben Studdard wearing black pants and a black tux coat. His white bow tie matched his...
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soulfullvibes | 06/28/2008
R&B singer Ruben Studdard, American Idol’s Season 2 winner, official tied the knot Today (Jun 28) with Surata Zuri McCants at Canterbury United Methodist Church in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.
