Kimberly News

Birmingham lost 977 residents between July 2007 and July 2008, the continuation of a long exodus out of the city, new U.S. Census estimates show.

It's another Friday night and another ''guitar pull'' for Dick Nail and Bob Blalock.Twenty years ago, the two got together with a few other musicians and started a jam session that's become a ritual in Kimberly, attracting hundreds of bluegrass musicians over the years from Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia.

Gov. Bob Riley's deputy legal advisor said that the Sweet Home Alabama bill proposed in the current legislative session came as a direct result of the governor's gambling task force.

A canoe flipped over this evening in the Locust Fork branch of the Black Warrior River in Warrior.

Today Nancy Vines took the stand and testified against Bobby Ray Sims. Sims is accused of murdering Teresa and Hershell Florence, Vines' aunt and uncle, with a shotgun in July 2007.

Erin Whaley Traci Edwards Sharon W. Burton Sharon Alexander Tracey Schultz Mona Howton Michael A. Tate APPOINTMENTS Kimberly B. Glass, a lawyer with Birmingham's Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker LLC, has been re-appointed to the board of the Wesley Foundation, the United Methodist Student Center at the University of Alabama.

Jody Newman, 61, of Gardendale was crowned Ms. Senior Jefferson County at a pageant held this afternoon at the Hoover Senior Center.