From the daily archives:

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Northport resident to receive Congressional Gold Medal

March 7, 2010

By Wayne Grayson Staff Writer Mary Helen Foster is traveling to Washington D.C. where she will be given the Congressional Gold Medal for her service with the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1944.

1992 UA champs reminisce about White House visit

March 7, 2010

By Chase Goodbread Sports Writer TUSCALOOSA | More than 100 players, coaches and staff made the trip when the University of Alabama’s 1992 national championship football team visited the White House, but of all the memories made on the Crimson Tide’s visit to the nation’s…

One dead after shooting on Poplar Avenue in Huntsville

March 7, 2010

The shooting occurred around 6:20 p.m. Sunday afternoon. File image HUNTSVILLE, AL — One man is dead after a shooting on Poplar Avenue earlier this evening. According to Huntsville police, Michael Porter, 47, was found dead with a single gun shot wound to the chest. Porter was…

Residents urged to return forms

March 7, 2010

By Eryn Phillips Special to The Tuscaloosa News Beginning this month, the questionnaire for the 2010 Census will start showing up in the mailboxes of West Alabama residents.

UA drivers, transit company continue negotiations

March 7, 2010

By Adam Jones Staff Writer TUSCALOOSA | University of Alabama bus drivers and the company that manages the transit system met last night in another effort to hammer out a wage and employment agreement. The two sides met at Comfort Inn Suites off McFarland Boulevard Sunday…

West Alabama WWII veterans heading to Washington, D.C.

March 7, 2010

By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer TUSCALOOSA | Chris Thaxton, a World War II veteran from Tuscaloosa has not seen the monument in Washington, D.C., dedicated to his comrades in arms.

AT A GLANCE: Teen hospitalized after shooting Saturday night

March 7, 2010

TUSCALOOSA | A 16-year-old male is in the intensive care unit at DCH Regional Medical Center after he was shot in the face Saturday night.

In photos: Blimp gives ailing children a different view of world

March 7, 2010

Charity and casino provide children with rides at St. Clair County Airport A crewman reaches out to attach a pin to the nose of an airship at the St. Clair County Airport in Pell City on Sunday, March 7, 2010, after it had to be moored due to winds. …

In photos: Alabama Symphony Orchestra outing takes it to church

March 7, 2010

Symphony performs at Birmingham's Sixth Avenue Baptist Church The Alabama Symphony Orchestra presented the third installment of it’s Classical Inspirations Concert Series at Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on Sunday March 7, 2010. The program featured guest conductor Chelsea Tipton, II. The Sixth Avenue…

Thousands gathered in Selma to remember “Bloody Sunday”

March 7, 2010

Forty-five years after march and thousands pause to reflect and re-enact the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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