Category Archives: Alabama

Scrushy & Siegelman sentenced, already in custody

Richard Scrushy and Don Siegelman received their sentences last night from U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller and taken into custody while their lawyers prepared to file emergency appeals as early as today.

The sentences:

Richard Scrushy
Prison Time 6 years, 10 months
Probation 3 years
Fine $150,000
Restitution $267,000 (United Way of Central Alabama)
Additional conditions Ordered to pay the costs of prison stay
Don Siegelman
Prison Time 7 years, 4 months
Probation 3 years
Fine $50,000
Restitution $181,325 (Unidentified state agency)
Additional conditions 500 hours of community service

5% of Whole Foods purchases today benefit local program

Jones Valley Urban FarmIf you have to make a stop to pick up a couple of items at the grocery today, consider making the trip out to Whole Foods to do it.

The Austin-TX based grocer selects a non-profit organization in each community it operates in once a quarter to receive 5% of one day store profits. The first organization to receive that donation from the recently opened the Mountain Brook location will be Jones Valley Urban Farm (JVUF). Continue reading

Red Cross announces emergency appeal

The American Red Cross Alabama and Central Gulf Coast region announced an emergency appeal period on Monday according to The Enterprise Ledger.

The appeal period will be in effect until the region’s blood inventory reaches a safe level.

According to the article, the American Red Cross supplies more than 100 hospitals in the region and is in desperate need of new donors as those that gave during drives held in June will not be eligible to give again until August. Continue reading

Ferrol Sams, The Alabama Booksmith

He is considered one of the best living Southern authors and tonight, we’ll have the privilege of having him in metro Birmingham. Dr. Sams will be making an appearance at The Alabama Booksmith, where he will be reading from his new book, Down Town.

They’ve doubled the size of their events area to accomodate the anticipated turnout for the event. Sams is also expected to reflect on his previous works and copies of Run With the Horsemen, Whisper of the River and When All the World Was Young will be available in paperback.

Those unable to attend the event may still purchase a signed copy of Down Town through the Homewood bookstore’s website.

New poll question: Who’d you pick for mayor today?

We figured it was time to start changing our poll questions on at least a weekly basis.

For those of you that are reading this via your RSS feed, please visit the site and vote in this week’s poll. It is a timely question, considering the increase in candidates for the mayor’s office in Birmingham (the election is coming up in October, with a runoff election if needed in November).

Ecycling Day returns this Friday

Ecycling Day logo

If you were upset that you couldn’t take your old computer equipment to be recycled this past April on Earth Day, fear not. TechBirmingham has announced that they will be hosting an Ecycling Day this coming Friday, June 29 at Vulcan Park from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Continue reading

Help us cover Art on the Rocks!

We were just thinking… we’ve got to start finding ways to get more of you involved in the creation of this site. So, we’re asking you to help us cover Art on the Rocks’ opening night!

We know most of you will take pictures tonight while you’re there. We also know that several of you have Flickr accounts. We figure, why not have you take some shots and tag the ones that you think we’ll like. We’ll then choose some and link them back to your Flickr account. (We thought you’d like that Smiley) Here’s how: Continue reading