Alabama native Lennie Acuff has been named the head coach for the Samford University men’s basketball program, the university announced Wednesday (April 9).
Two bills that would more strictly enforce eligibility for Medicaid and food stamps in Alabama passed out of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee last week amid pushback from low-income and child advocacy groups.
Alabama lawmakers will consider today a bill to fundamentally change how the state targets funding to support students with educational challenges.
Unlike traditional public schools, these specialty schools aren’t funded through Alabama’s enrollment-based Foundation Program. Instead, they receive line-item appropriations in the education trust fund budget.
“Can you imagine someone coming into your neighborhood and telling you there is an entirely different way to believe?” asked Seth Shelton, pastor of The Way Church.
Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief teams are hard at work in Selmer, Tennessee, and in Alabama’s Colbert and Lauderdale counties following a devastating set of storms that moved across the Midwest and the South in the past week.
The Alabama House Insurance Committee amended and approved Wednesday a bill requiring pharmacy benefit managers to pay independent pharmacies more for some medications.
“You cannot walk with God on a treadmill,” said H.B. Charles Jr., the pastor-teacher of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church of Jacksonville and Orange Park, Florida.
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