Legislation to give paid parental leave to state employees and educators had two significant votes on March 5, though questions about how much it will cost the state remain.
Alabama state lawmakers advanced two bills targeting illegal immigration March 5.
Alabama legislators continue working through a long list of bills to consider.
At Alabama WMU’s Renew event Feb. 22, about 500 women gathered to hear speaker Heather Johnson, shopped at a WorldCrafts store, took a photo in a giant cake to celebrate the CP’s 100th birthday and left encouraged to be on mission.
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Ashland had prayed and planned for 200 men to attend their community-wide men’s night Feb. 23. But when the night came, God brought them more.
Before returning to Alabama in 2003, Mary Swedenburg served for 34 years in Japan with the International Mission Board.
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced bills requiring schools to implement a “bell-to-bell” student cell phone ban starting July 1.
Marion police have announced that they arrested 40-year-old Micah Hester at the scene of the fire at the former Judson College library on Feb. 23. Hester is charged with arson, burglary and making a terrorist threat.
