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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 Courthouse Square known for blending history, arts and crafts. The show called “Rooted in History” also ...

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. LaJeromeny Brown sought body camera footage from the night that authorities say he killed Huntsville poli...

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 Huntsville's 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 rooms and make sure a hot breakfast is served to visitors. He’s also monitoring the phones, waiting...

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 Force's 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 headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, she understood why Trump ...