Sanchaze Murray was nervous about college. Excited, too. But his worries about university life loomed large when he graduated Anniston High School in 2007: How will I make new friends? Will the classes be too hard? Will I be able to balance academics and a social life?

“We do everything in the name of Jesus Christ,” said Capt. Bert Lind, commanding officer of the local organization.

The statistics present conditions that are in stark contrast to what Gov. Robert Bentley reported in a Friday press release.

“As we right size the work force we’re always expected to do more with less,” said Clester Burdell, depot public affairs officer. “You’re pushed even more to meet the mission.”

The Historical Commission and Trust for Historic Preservation have published an annual Places in Peril list since 1994.

“We don’t have a lot of problems here, but we want to be proactive,” Kitty Stone Principal Christy Hamilton said. “We want to keep kids aware about … and cut down on the incidents that we do have.”

A man who answered a telephone number listed for a Chad Dickie on Thursday at first identified himself as Dickie, but when a reporter then identified himself and asked about Dickie’s involvement with National Promotions, the man said, “No, this is Fred, I’m sorry.”

Eleven teams of college-age youths from throughout the Southeast will come to Calhoun County for the 11th straight year from July 16 through July 21. They will help local homeowners with small renovation projects if they meet the income criteria.

Chris Haney thinks often about the little girl pinned under the big house. He doesn’t think about what he could have done differently. He doesn’t dwell on the fact that there might have been just a few minutes between the time 13-year-old Angel Stillwell died and the time her body was freed from the rubble. You have to put that stuff behind you, he said. But he does often think about the things Angel missed.

From the time she was a little girl growing up in Raleigh, N.C., Julie Hedgepeth Williams remembered her great-uncle tell the story of a great ship that sank in the middle of a cold ocean.

Thanks to Alexander the Great Events in Oxford, those who spent the weekend in Montgomery with Oxford’s baseball contingent can have their own prom. It won’t be THE prom, but it will be A prom, set for Tuesday night and put on by Mike Alexander, an Oxford parent.

You don’t become one of the state’s best high school basketball players, while generously being at listed at 5-foot-2, by being afraid. That fearlessness is part of why Saks’ Addesha Collins signed a scholarship with Tallahassee Community College (Fla.) despite not having visited the school’s campus located in the sunshine state’s capital city.

AUBURN — It was an historic night for Jacksonville State closer Todd Hornsby, but he approached it like it was any other game.

BIRMINGHAM — Few positions necessitate practical experience more than quarterback. That’ll be somewhat of an issue for Alabama this fall.

Not necessarily gone but almost certainly forgotten until Saturday night in the Georgia Dome, quarterback Barrett Trotter came off the bench to jump start Auburn and possibly his career in the Tigers’ 43-24 Chick-fil-A Bowl victory over Virginia.

Lilly Ledbetter has become a household name around these parts. The Jacksonville native made national headlines over the last few years with her well-publicized fight for equal pay for women.

Warm sun. Bright red berries underneath cool green leaves. Stoop. Pick. Stoop. Pick. Put five in the basket, pop one in the mouth. Ummmm, fresh-picked strawberries.

Edward Wood is used to telling his life story, and for good reason. The 85-year-old Anniston resident was the subject of a recent documentary by filmmaker Stan Arthur.