It was front-page news in Wednesday’s edition of The Anniston Star. The headline screamed “500,000.” Few people needed it explained.
Consolidated Publishing publisher Josephine Ayers remembers the late Dr. Gerald Woodruff, a family friend and pediatrician who worked with Anniston's children for decades, who passed away this week.
Tiger Woods first roared into our living rooms and consciousness in 1978 when he was only 2.
Jacksonville State University and other smaller college football programs should consider switching their schedules to spring on a full-time basis.
Some people still question the need for a month-long focus on African-American history.
In 1987, not long before Christmas, a gathering of Anniston’s Black ministers held a clandestine meeting to discuss a radical proposal: renaming 15th Street after the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Since November, the city’s elected delegation has oozed blandness — in what it’s discussed, in its public comportment, in its decisions.
A Dallas-based development company that works extensively with Amazon has been talking to NASCAR about acquiring some of Talladega Superspeedway’s real estate.
You know it’s going to be a bad day when . . .
Best I can tell, there hasn’t been a publicized Ku Klux Klan parade on Noble Street since 1965. After a Sunday afternoon rally at the Anniston City Auditorium, about 500 Klansmen and their hangers-on marched down 10th Street, turned north, paraded four blocks to 14th Street and reconvened wh…
ESPN baseball reporter Pedro Gomez died Sunday at 58, I learned as I was watching the second half of the Super Bowl.
The first time I saw Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs superstar quarterback had just arrived on the Texas Tech University campus in 2014 as perhaps the most-heralded recruit in school history.
Not everything about COVID-19 has been bad. Mmmm. Let me start over.
Dennis Bonner died a month ago, taken from his family on a January Monday at UAB Hospital by this pandemic’s unrelenting disease. He was just 63. COVID-19 has killed roughly 8,000 Alabamians and 450,000 Americans.
Jacksonville State University took the plunge Friday, joining the warmth of the Atlantic Sun Conference after giving a cold shoulder to the Ohio Valley Conference, a business partner for 18 years.
The ASUN Conference made a bold move in getting Jacksonville State along with Eastern Kentucky and Central Arkansas. Don't sleep on the ASUN now, as the league commissioner teased another big announcement Feb. 23.
“This COVID stuff is all just a hoax!”
Last week’s binge on cable TV, watching the seminal events in our country, made me think of what cable news was and has become.
Tuesday morning, the funeral bell at Grace Episcopal Church rang 42 times, one for every 10,000 Americans who have died during the pandemic.
“The Round Mound of Rebound” was the biggest thing ever to hit Leeds, Alabama.
It is no eye-opening revelation for you to hear someone say American government is in a state of serious dysfunction.
Talladega Superspeedway would be an ideal site to use as a COVID-19 vaccine distribution center.
Gov. Kay Ivey’s words in extending the statewide mask mandate through March 5 were clear and inspiring.
A man of Catholic faith is in the White House again, and unless they're shouting "Hurrah!" most folks don't think it's a big deal.
The firing and hiring of football coaches is big news in Alabama and around the South.
