Alabama Local News
Huntsville Hospital Foundation Receives $75,000 Grant For Infant Nutrition Lab Work
Huntsville Hospital Foundation (HHF) announced today that the organization has secured significant funding from the Hearst Foundations — prestigious, philanthropic resources based in New York City. HHF is the first health care non-profit in North Alabama to receive a grant from the foundations, founded by…
Huntsville Ranked 30th Best Place In America To Find A Job
Huntsville, AL is ranked the 30th best place in America to find a job according to online website WalletHub. In order to determine the best job markets in the U.S., WalletHub compared 182 cities — including the 150 most populated U.S. cities, plus at least…
Mobile Artist Auctions Off Painting In Response To “Homeless Quilt” Police Photo
Local artist Abraham Partridge from Mobile, AL is going viral after he created a painting and posted it to Facebook to raise funds for a homeless shelter. The painting was inspired by two Mobile police officers, Preston McGraw and Alexandre Olivier, who ridiculed homeless people…
Montgomery Arc and Two Subsidiaries to Pay $541,000 in Wages Back to Disabled Workers
According to an investigation by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Hanan Center, a physical therapy clinic, and the McInnis Recycling Center has participated in violations of federal laws and regulations against 80 respective employees with disabilities. These companies…
13 Alabama Housing Authorities Receive $1.4 Million in HUD Grants
As a result of a $79 million dollar grant effort by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 13 housing authorities in Alabama will receive $1.4 million dollars to help their residents improve their education and job skills and increase their income with new…
Mayor Stimpson Releases Statement On Mobile Police Officers Actions Towards Homeless
Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson has issued a statement through Twitter for the actions of two Mobile Police Officers, Preston McGraw and Alexandre Olivier, who made national headlines by appearing to ridicule homeless panhandlers that the officers had previously arrested. In the tweets, Stimpson states, “I…
Mayor Battle Looks Ahead At The Future of Huntsville
Tommy Battle, the Mayor of Huntsville, AL, sat down with local news WHNT for an interview on the current state of Huntsville and what we might see from Huntsville in the future. While Battle spent time discussing the growth that has brought Huntsville to where…
Mobile Police Officers Brag About Putting Homeless People In Jail
Two Mobile, AL police officers are in hot water after posting an image of themselves that appears to make fun of homeless people they have arrested for panhandling. The Facebook post shows two Mobile police officers holding what they call a “quilt” of signs confiscated…
Patients File Lawsuit Against DCH Health System After Cyber Attack On Their Records
On Oct. 1, DCH’s hospitals in Tuscaloosa, Northport, and Fayette were temporarily closed due to a breach in its computer system. The source of the breach was a cyber attack from an unknown group asking for money in exchange for access to the hospital’s patient…
Gardendale Forced to Pay Legal Fees to NAACP Amid its Push to Create its Own School System
After attempting to create its own school system and district to divorce itself from the school system of Jefferson County (a 50 percent white county), the 80 percent white city of Gardendale is being ordered by U.S. District Court Judge, Madeline Haikala to pay $850,000…