Amy Yurkanin

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.

In a letter, the state's public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals.”

Georgia's Maternal Mortality Review Committee members have been dismissed by DPH Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey after reports on two deaths became public.