Samford University News

The Barren County Alumni Association hosted the third annual Hall of Distinguished Alumni banquet on Saturday at Barren County High School.

Movers from Mallory Alexander International Logistics and Osborne Machinery Movers place a statue of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry in the lobby of Samford's Beeson University Center.

A concert by acclaimed new music specialists eighth blackbird nearly fills Samford University's Brock Recital Hall.

Susan Hamm, the new Miss Samford, is a junior from Thorsby. Susan Hamm, a junior business administration major from Thorsby, was crowned Miss Samford University 2010 Friday.

Fifteen students will vie for the title of Miss Mississippi State University, at 7 p.m. Thursday in Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium, with doors opening an hour earlier.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham wants $34 million in state funds for new capital projects but a prominent lawmaker said shrinking tax collections will likely sink the proposal.

The Rev. Elizabeth Goodrich, pastor of Gardendale Presbyterian Church, is one of a growing number of female senior pastors preaching from the pulpit every Sunday morning.

East Lake is the site of a budding revitalization. By Christina Crowe If you dream of owning a house that is close to downtown Birmingham, historical in design, near several outdoor recreation areas, yet costs less than $100,000, one neighborhood offers all of the above: East Lake.

Miss Wilda Goss, 83, of Crossville Nursing Health & Rehab, formerly of Boaz, died Tuesday, Nov.

George Crumb has been an icon of the avant garde since the 1960s, when he won a Pulitzer Prize in music.

A deal between U.S. regulators and J.P. Morgan Securities to settle charges over secret payments to Alabama's Jefferson County may prove a false dawn for the debt-ridden county.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:58 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:58 a.m. Because of television, the civil rights movement has more than its share of images indelibly stamped on the American mind.

Dr. and Mrs. Garrison Stephen Cowen of Jasper, Alabama announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy Elizabeth Cowen of Montgomery, Alabama to James Michael Chitwood of Montgomery, Alabama son of the late Violet Caltron of Columbus, Ohio and the late James Gavann Chitwood, Sr.

A Huntsville teen wins a special honor over the weekend. Randolph High School junior Ashlyn Alongi is this year's Miss Teen Alabama USA.

Travis Hart officiating, and under the direction of Wood-Dunning Funeral Home. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sunday evening at the funeral home.

The staff and church family at Abba's House in Hixson honored Ron and Paulette Phillips for 30 years of ministry at the church with a surprise celebration on Oct.

At approximately 3:00 p.m. this afternoon officers from the Department of Public Safety responded to a call of a shoplifting from the Campus Book Store.

A Samford University campus police officer in Homewood was injured about 3 p.m. this afternoon when he was struck by the fleeing car of two campus bookstore shoplifting suspects.

A man has been charged for allegedly trying to run over a Samford University police officer.

A Samford University police officer has been injured while pursuing shoplifting suspects at the Homewood school.