Cigarette smoke causes a key enzyme that regulates the body's response to inflammation, to shut off, according to a new study.esearchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham found that smoke causes the enzyme to shut down white blood cells following a successful response to...

No. 1 Alabama will be without Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and star defensive end Marcell Dareus for tonight’s season opener against the Spartans.OK, the Ingram news barely wobbled the...

A native of Florida, Trammell earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration/management at the University of West Florida. He earned master’s degrees in business and hospital...

The Etowah County Board of Education will convene for its regular meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday inside the board office, 3200 W. Meighan Blvd., Gadsden. A hearing on the 2010-2011 budget takes place at...

Gadsden Regional Medical Center has been awarded a certificate of need for additional adult psychiatric beds, according to the State Health Planning and Development...

The headquarters is located at 708 S. Fourth St. and will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday thourgh Friday. The phone number is...

bingo will begin with a grand opening Tuesday through Thursday.Those three evenings, Charity Bingo at Center Stage will feature free meals — including a wings meal Tuesday, hot dogs Wednesday...

The USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 football coaches' poll, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th and ranking in last week's...

Bright to consider five debates throughout the Second Congressional District."I'm excited about these debates and I hope there will be several more opportunities. Alabamians deserve to hear from the...

Major Bob Holmstrom, Chairman of the Department of Military Science at Troy University talks with cadet David Yoon inside an office at the university on Friday...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- In a new twist to their increasingly bitter relationship, Attorney General Troy King has accused Gov. Bob Riley of trying to let BP get off cheap for the Gulf oil spill and Riley...

led Birmingham stocks Friday in Wall Street trading. The Birmingham-based insurance giant (NYSE: PL) gained 67 cents or 3.4 percent to close at $20.61. It was a generally positive day for most...

Alabama Power Co. has launched a new initiative to assist customers struggling with high electricity bills due to the summer's heat wave. The utility's Heat Relief initiative includes...

Trinity Medical Center said it is lighting up the top floor of the unfinished hospital in a red glow as a sign of the community’s need for full-service hospital care in the southeast area of...

MONTGOMERY -- The prominent Birmingham law firm of Balch & Bingham has been retained by the state under a competitively selected, hourly contract to protect the state’s interests and to advise...

on Wednesday to announce construction of the new veterans home would begin before the end of the year. The announcement took place at the St. Clair County Economic Development...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama Supreme Court is responding to public allegations by saying it reassigned an electronic bingo case from one justice to another in the interest of judicial...

Roughly 88,000 square miles of federal waters off Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida were closed after the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon killed 11...

's Cooperative Extension Program is preparing to host the Booker T. Washington Economic Development Summit. The event will focus on promoting economic development through private enterprise and...

Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport , said Friday its system traffic in July rose 1.1 percent on a 1.2 percent increase in capacity. Load factor, or how full its planes were, was flat at...

This hand-carved headstone, seen Thursday, is one of several hundred that have been obscured by brush and weeds at the Ridgeville Community Cemetery. Much of the older part of the cemetery has...

EMA Tips • Get an Emergency Supply Kit: This is a kit of emergency supplies that will allow you and your family to survive for at least three days in the event an emergency happens.• Make...

Bobby Zamora has been attracting attention. The Blues added to their ranks on the final day with the additions of Barcelona's Alexander Hleb, Chilean star Jean Beausejour and Spartak defender Martin...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- A new report says nearly 2,400 jobs probably will be lost to otherwise unemployed adults and young people in Alabama if a federal stimulus program is not extended by...

VANCE, Ala. (AP) -- Mercedes-Benz has hired the agency North American On-Site LLC to handle the hiring of more than 400 temporary production employees for its automotive assembly plant in...

An Anniston EMS crew brought one woman out of the store on a stretcher. Anniston police Sgt. Fred Forsythe says the woman was not injured. The newspaper says a second stretcher was taken into the...

Government Accountability Office report said. The watchdog spending group sent a letter to Rep. John Lewis, chairman of the subcommittee on oversight and committee of ways and means, in the report,...

Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the death of one worker and the critical injury of a second at its Phenix City facility. OSHA cited Phenix Lumber for 53 safety and health...

Hill was convicted in the Kinsey case, he was found not guilty in another armed robbery which occured on the same night, involving a woman robbed at gunpoint in the parking lot of the...

A Montgomery police officer has resigned and faces charges in Greenville after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase, authorities said. It is the second run-in with the law for Kyle...

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) -- Officials are investigating the death of a Riverview Regional Medical Center registered nurse whose body was found in a hospital restroom with empty vials of Demerol and used...

Attorney John Wayne Boone was representing a defendant accused of participating in a conspiracy to sell the drug Ecstasy. Boone failed to appear with his client at a plea hearing on Aug 23. U.S....

U.S. payrolls shed 54,000 jobs in August, but private businesses added 67,000 workers, and the nation's unemployment rate rose slightly to 9.6 percent for the month as half a million Americans...

Dothan police , a 33-year-old man was shot at a home in the 2300 block of Kristi Lea Drive around 2 a.m. Friday. Police said the initial investigation led detectives to believe the shooting was...

BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) -- Bessemer police say they have arrested one man and are seeking another in raids on historical industrial sites on Red...

TUSCALOOSA -- Mike MacIntyre was a freshman at Vanderbilt and didn't play that September 1984 day when the Commodores celebrated in Bryant-Denny...

The Nike Cup, a Ryder Cup-style event that matches the top junior golfers from the SJGT against those from Georgia's Canongate Junior Tour, will be played Saturday and Sunday at Capitol Hill in...

TUSCALOOSA -- Linebacker Chavis Williams says he didn't walk around campus with a proud grin or puffed-out chest just because he was named a starter for Alabama's season...

NEW ORLEANS -- An oil platform that burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday was the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no...

AUBURN -- Gus Malzahn may be facing another protg this weekend.Still, he's not sure.Arkansas State offensive coordinator Hugh Freeze will arrive at Jordan-Hare Stadium this weekend with a spread...

BIRMINGHAM -- A national study estimates the number of illegal immigrants living in Alabama increased 30 percent in 2009, while the number nationwide dropped a little more than 4...

HUNTSVILLE -- The mystery of what happened to more than $1 million at Alabama A&M University hasn't been solved two years after state examiners reported financial problems at the...

The committee chairman, Democratic Rep. Alvin Holmes of Montgomery, said Thursday the date for the current committee's last meeting has been changed from Oct. 7 to Oct. 28 to give the Riley...

A Montgomery judge has ruled that Bobby Cheney is the owner of Lincoln Cemetery, possibly putting an end to a dispute that has persisted for 20...