Birmingham is mourning the loss of a local civil rights legend as ABC 33/40 is reporting that the Rev. Abraham Woods died a short while ago at Princeton Baptist Medical Center. He was 80 years old.
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CVS plans approved in Five Points South
October 10th, 2008 · Comments Off · News
Residents and supporters of Five Points South put up a good fight, but ultimately the ZBA decided in a 4-2 vote Thursday to approve the variances for a CVS drug store to be built at 1312-1324 & 1330 11th Ave South and 14th Street. This means three apartment buildings will have to be demolished. Neighborhood association [...]
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Business development threatens Five Points apartments
October 8th, 2008 · View Comments · News
The Five Points South Neighborhood Association will voice their opposition Thursday at City Hall in a zoning dispute that could leave several Five Points residents displaced. According to the neighborhood association president, Gary Bostany, a developer requested two variances from the Zoning Board of Adjustments (ZBA) to build a CVS drug store located at 1312-1324 [...]
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Birmingham’s curfew crackdown starts today
October 1st, 2008 · Comments Off · News
Birmingham’s revised city-wide curfew goes into effect today. The changes in punishment were recommended by Mayor Larry Langford, in order to address recent crimes involving teenagers. Under the new law, all minors 17 years old and younger must not be on city streets between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on weekdays or between 11:00 p.m. and [...]
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UPDATE: Reports that Citigroup purchases Wachovia
September 29th, 2008 · View Comments · Business, News
The New York Times is reporting that Citigroup has agreed to purchase the banking operations of Charlotte, NC-based Wachovia (portions of which are formerly Birmingham based AmSouth Bank sorry, SouthTrust Bank) for $1 a share. We’ll see if we can’t get more information for you as it becomes available today.
So how are you dealing with the financial [...]
Where to next for Birmingham area skaters?
September 23rd, 2008 · View Comments · News
Photo: Untitled. jflint/Flickr.
That’s the question being asked by many of them as they learned that the skate ramps they’d recently created on the site of the old Terminal Station – and next to the 5th Avenue North on ramp to I-20/59 – had been removed early yesterday by the Alabama Department of Transportation. The makeshift [...]
Gas prices update
September 12th, 2008 · View Comments · News
With approximately 25% of the country’s oil refineries located along or near the path of Hurricane Ike, these rising prices may be around for a few days. We’re seeing several reports following the early ones we mentioned earlier today…
We’ve just heard via Twitter that gas in Bluff Park is at $4.49/gallon. If you could put [...]
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