By Sondra Washington and Jennifer Davis Rash Bingo may be considered a big-money game in Alabama today, but it didn’t start out that way. Experts
• Dog racing was legalized in Macon, Greene, Jefferson and Mobile counties in the 1970s. • VictoryLand was built in Shorter in Macon County in
Macon County was not first in Alabama to pass a constitutional amendment allowing bingo gambling. Actually it was dead last. But once the amendment was
Tattered red, yellow and green umbrellas edge Port-au-Prince’s broken and battered roads, providing shade for street vendors who struggle to eke out a day’s wages
Following the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Alabama Baptist disaster relief teams, in coordination with Southern Baptist Convention efforts, began to respond to
Rheta Nell Thrasher Tcherneshoff, former missionary to Brazil, died Aug. 24. She was 75. A native of Hillsboro, Tcherneshoff, along with husband Pete, served with
Our church plant is in the middle of one of the most dangerous areas of our city,” said John Smith, a church planting missionary in
Former Florida State University football coach Bobby Bowden recently told a Baptist newspaper that it was his duty as coach to share his Christian faith
