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Huntsville show ‘Rooted in History’ spotlights Alabama folk art including Jason Isbell AL.com 3 hrs ago Lee Roop, al.com © Lee Roop | lroop/al.com Birmingham artist Tracie Noles-Ross created a new kind of art for her during the pandemic. One detail of the entire work called "Life in the Thicket" is shown here. A new show and sale of Alabama folk art – much of it by Black artists – is bringing people to Harrison Brothers Hardware, a Huntsville fixture on the Courthou...

It is called Magnolia Terrace, and it’s where many of Huntsville’s Black professionals moved when they were displaced from the city center in the 1940s and 1950s by what later became known as “urban renewal.” Now, the neighborhood that is still home to a largely Black population of single-family home owners, faces a new wave of what could be positive change as it sits beside a corridor the ...

Huntsville capital murder suspect denied access to body cam footage of police officer’s killing AL.com 3 hrs ago William Thornton, al.com © Lee Roop | lroop/al.com LaJeromeny Brown, center, is taken back to jail in Huntsville, Ala., after being bound over to a grand jury in the shooting death of Huntsville police officer Billy Clardy III. Circuit Judge Chris Comer has rejected a motion filed personally by a man accused of killing a Huntsville police officer in 2019. LaJer...

Alabama hotels struggle to find workers as tourism rebounds from COVID pandemic AL.com 5/12/2021 John Sharp, al.com © Lee Roop | lroop/al.com Huntsvilles Embassy Suites, pictured at the start of the coronavirus pandemic on March 12, 2020. The hotel, like others in Alabama, is experiencing a rebound in visitors. With that comes the pressure to add more employees. Jim Pappas is pulling extra duty as general manager at the Hampton Inn in Daphne by helping clean up the hotel ro...

Colorado’s Aerospace Alley prepares for Space Command move to Alabama Dan Boyce, Colorado Public Radio via AP March 7 Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond established Space Operations Command the U.S. Space Forces first of three field commands, during a ceremony at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Oct. 21, 2020. (Staff Sgt. J.T. Armstrong/Space Force) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When Kathy Boe heard the news in January that President Donald Trump was moving the headqua...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — When Kathy Boe heard the news in January that President...

Undeterred, Colorado’s aerospace industry preps for Space Command’s move to Alabama — if it happens In February, the Defense Department — operating under President Biden — announced it would investigate the circumstances behind Trump’s Space Command decision. Author: Dan Boyce (Colorado Public Radio News) Published: 8:31 AM MST March 3, 2021 Updated: 8:31 AM MST March 3, 2021 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo — When Kathy Boe heard the news in ...

(Courtesy of NASA) Scientists and engineers place two mirror segments on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope in 2014. The mirrors were built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder. “We kind of knew they were our biggest competitor all along,” said Boe, the founder and CEO of Colorado Springs-based aerospace company Boecore. Boe started her company in her Colorado Springs basement 21 years ago. The business, which designs software for military space and missile defense projects,...

Huntsville Hospital won’t make new appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations for the next month due to a drop in vaccine supplies from the state. The north Alabama hospital system said today it will stop making new appointments until the week of March 22. People with existing appointments should come at their scheduled time unless contacted by the hospital, the hospital said. The hospital said ...

Down in Alabama: COVID variant, vaccine tourism and Margaritaville Updated Jan 28, 2021; Because we haven’t already given enough of our Spending Money to Jimmy Buffett over the years, construction on Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville resort hotel at Town Madison is expected to begin this year, according to a report by Lee Roop. Town Madison is the development that has Found It a Home on I-565 in Madison County that includes Toyota Field, where the Rocket City Trash Pandas will allegedly pla...