NEW YORK — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients … Read more
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Friday, October 18, 2024 iStock/D:532811041 A church in Alabama has filed a complaint against a regional body of The United Methodist Church, seeking a court order confirming that they own their historic property. Church Street Methodist Church of Selma, which reportedly has a membership of around 350 and is … Read more
DA Kevin Hayden: more than half of guns seized in Boston come from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: September 22, 2024 at 8:19 p.m. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer … Read more
AT LEAST four people have been gunned down and 18 others injured after a horror mass shooting. A huge manhunt has since been launched as cops search Birmingham, Alabama for multiple gunman they believe may have been behind the attack. 3 The shooting happened near the University of Alabama in Birmingham 3 Cops quickly arrived … Read more
This story previously aired on Aug. 28, 2021. It was updated on June 29, 2024. Aniah Blanchard, 19, was widely known for always putting other people before herself, but she also had a deep-seated fear of being kidnapped and harmed. On Oct. 23, 2019, Aniah vanished without a trace after she dropped her brother off … Read more
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) reportedly signed a bill into law Thursday that would ensure President Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot. The Hill has reached out to Ivey’s office for comment, but The Associated Press reported that a spokeswoman said the bill had been signed. The bill’s singing follows the unanimous approval … Read more
Driving along the AL-34 highway westwards, the willow oaks and loblolly pines give way to an old iron bridge. Suddenly, a vast and sweeping panorama of the Coosa River opens up for miles in all directions, the water a flat mirror of the cloudless sky. This is Alabama and the American South at its most shatteringly … Read more
‘Have you ever visited Nashville before?’ a man shouts out above deafening rock music. We’re on the top floor of The Stage, one of the honky-tonk bars on Lower Broadway. Live music bellows out behind us, and he struggles to hear my response over the band’s frontman, whose banter is almost as loud as his … Read more
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Saturday, April 13, 2024 The Supreme Court of Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama. | Wikimedia Commons/Michael Barera https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montgomery_December_2018_39_(Supreme_Court_of_Alabama).jpg The Alabama Supreme Court has rejected a request from a United Methodist Church conference to kill a lawsuit filed by a megachurch trying to secure the rights to its church property as … Read more
Alabama Senator Katie Britt is defending herself from one of many self-inflicted wounds during her widely mocked State of the Union response address, as journalists have been poking holes into an anecdote she told as part of a critique of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. In an emotional rebuttal to the president’s address on Thursday, … Read more
