Willie Mays got his start at Birmingham’s Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and former home of the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues. A special, regular season game will take place at the field June 20.
Matt Queen, a former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor and interim provost, has been indicted on a charge of obstructing justice in a sexual misconduct case, according to the DOJ.
The previously pending lawsuit by businessman Frank C. Mann involving the financial challenges and closing of Judson College has been settled as the Chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy process continues for Judson.
The Alabama Public Library Service’s newly amended administrative code requires public libraries in the state to remove sexually explicit materials from their children’s sections in order to receive state funding.
Bipartisan legislation making clergy sex abuse a felony passed the Alabama Legislature today (April 25) and now heads to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.
The Alabama Baptist’s editor emeritus recognized for exceptional contribution to field of Christian journalism.
David George, who recently retired as president of the WMU Foundation, will spend the next few months providing encouragement and coaching to the engagement specialists serving the Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries.
Charles W. Smith Jr. has been named the 6th president of the University of Mobile.
