Anniston

Multiple generations of Black civil rights activists met at Xavier University on Wednesday to honor a group of Freedom Riders after they finally completed a disrupted bus journey from Washington D.C. to New Orleans 65 years after the original trip was halted. The original ride, the first in a series of trips to protest Jim Crow laws, was interrupted when a segregationist mob firebombed their buses in Anniston, Alabama.

This month is the twentieth anniversary of a legal settlement in the town of Anniston. Two companies agreed to pay over six hundred million dollars to thousands of residents in that community northeast of Birmingham. The issue was over health problems allegedly caused by chemicals called Polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs for short. Anniston residents complained of health problems ranging from cancer to neurological effects. They blamed PCBs produced at a local factory for these illnesses

Project plans are at 80% completion, and the city is in the process of submitting them to the Alabama Department of Transportation this month for their review. After this, two subsequent submittals to ALDOT will be made before obtaining their approval to advertise and initiate the construction bidding process.

Cities across the state are canceling Christmas parades due to the spread of COVID-19. Birmingham and Anniston both canceled festivities last week after…

ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city has removed a 115-year-old Confederate monument following a vote by city leaders. Workers with the city of Anniston…

ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city has voted to remove a Confederate monument from its downtown and relocate it to a park that houses a different…

ANNISTON, Ala. (WBMA-TV) — A former church bookkeeper in Alabama has been sentenced to five years of probation for embezzling nearly $500,000. WBMA-TV…

Anonymous donations have paid off $70,000 in layaway purchases at two Walmart stores in Alabama. A company spokesman says someone paid off $45,000 in…

ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — Authorities arrested two Alabama men based on YouTube sting videos that three Alabama teenagers created with the aim of catching…

Two more Alabama cities and one in Louisiana are among the latest participants in a Department of Justice initiative aimed at reducing violent crime…