Amy Yurkanin

The UAB Health System is set to acquire Ascension St. Vincent's in north central Alabama this fall in a deal worth $450 million following a vote of approval Tuesday by the University of Alabama Board of Trustees.

Grove Hill Memorial is closing one of rural south Alabama's last birthing units; East Alabama Medical Center-Lanier will become a Rural Emergency Hospital.

Grove Hill Memorial Hospital will end labor and delivery services in August and convert to a Rural Emergency Hospital. It will leave a large region of the state without a hospital that delivers babies.

| Alabama activist Kenneth Sharpton-Glasgow spent 30 years fighting for the voting rights of people with felony records.

| The co-owner of Tuscaloosa institution Nick's Original Filet House, also known as Nick's in the Sticks, is facing criticism after video emerged Saturday of customers accusing him of using a racial slur.

Mississippi-based telecommunications company C Spire has pulled its ads from the Paris Olympics, citing a scene it said made a “mockery” of Jesus' Last Supper.

A multi-car crash Thursday in east Alabama killed two people, including a 10-year-old child, and sent another man to the hospital, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.

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Jamie Connolly was facing several criminal charges when she started getting Facebook messages from a prosecutor in Houston County. The uproar that followed led to his conviction on ethics charges.