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The Times picks seven young Huntsville artists defining the city’s art scene

July 30, 2010

Whether working out of a classroom at Alabama A&M, a studio at Lowe Mill or a house in Five Points, young artists scattered around Huntsville are creating works that are interesting, inspiring and innovative. HUNTSVILLE, AL — Huntsville’s young artists are transforming this…

March seeks end to Birmingham’s violent crime

July 29, 2010

Brenda Ward hosted the rally of what would have been her son Ra'Sheed Ward's 20th birthday. He and Keith Hilson were shot to death on June 17. Standing in the front yard of her Ensley home Thursday night, Brenda Ward…

What you’re saying: Fairhope girl attends amputee camp

July 29, 2010

FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Last month, campers at a church camp took 11-year-old Fairhope amputee Whitney Hemphill's prosthetic leg while she was showering and hid it from her. The prank left the Fairhope pre-teen stuck in the camp shower and embarrassed. When she got home, she cried and…

Trucks dumping sand downtown for Rocket City Beach Bash

July 29, 2010

The cost is $5 per day, and a portion of every admission will be donated to the Governor's Emergency Relief Fund for the Gulf Coast. There's free parking downtown and in the city garages. The first 250 kids through the gates every day get a free beach …

Beads of Courage competing for Pepsi Refresh grant

July 29, 2010

Beads of Courage, an Arizona based nonprofit, is competing for a $250,000 grant from Pepsi to put beads in 10 hospitals that treat children with cancer. Eric Schultz / The Huntsville Times Sydney Newton, wearing her Beads of Courage. HUNTSVILLE, AL — Beads of Courage, an Arizona based nonprofit, is competing …

More charges filed in Center Point crash that killed pregnant woman, husband

July 27, 2010

A baby delivered after the wreck and the couple's two other children, an 11-year-old and 8-year-old also injured in the crash, remain hospitalized. Joseph Goolsby of Pinson. (Special/Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office) A 19-year-old Pinson man has been charged with …

Jefferson County man indicted on child porn charges

July 27, 2010

Alabama authorities worked with Illinois and Indiana law enforcement on the case A 66-year-old Jefferson County man was indicted by a federal grand jury for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography, according a press release from U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Col. Chris Murphy, director, Alabama…

Stepping on the court, off the streets

July 27, 2010

Every Tuesday and Thursday night during the summer, a group of young men get together to shoot hoops at the Sparkman Homes' Boys & Girls Club gym. They aren't professionals nor do they play college ball. But these guys mean more to the community than Kobe Bryant, Lebron James…

Alabama still ranks low in Kids Count data

July 27, 2010

State ranks 47th in U.S. View full size Alabama and much of the Southeast continue to lag the rest of the United States in measures of child well-being, according to today’s release of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2010 Kids Count data book. …

Civil suit filed in Center Point crash that killed husband and pregnant wife; the baby survived

July 26, 2010

Relatives of the couple's surviving children sued Joseph Alexander Goolsby, the Pinson man charged with "murder, extreme indifference/vehicle" in the death of Edgar Perez. Joseph Goolsby of Pinson. (Special/Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office) A 19-year-old Pinson man charged in connection…

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