Shelby County News

Gunshots were fired at two Shelby County sheriff's deputies late last night when they attempted to serve a felony arrest warrant on a woman wanted for violating probation. via ABC 33/40

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An Alabama woman accused of driving her car into the Cahaba River with her two children in the back seat almost three years ago has been found dead in Georgia. via WAGT

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“Parents and grandparents have replaced the local drug pusher as (drug) pur veyor of choice, ... and the pa rents don't realize it”

The 2008 class of J. Craig and Page T. Smith Scholarship winners gathers Tuesday at the Birmingham Museum of Art. via The Mobile Register Online

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“I think it has a lot of potential because (the wineries) are spread out all over the state. It's just another tool and attraction that we haven't had before”

CALERA -- Just off the interstate deep in Shelby County, the grapes have yet to peek from their vines. via Montgomery Advertiser

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The U.S. Hispanic population is booming. The Census Bureau estimates there are almost 46 million Hispanics in the country, or about 15 percent of the population. via WBHM-FM Birmingham

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The Birmingham News won the Sweepstakes Award for large daily newspapers in the Alabama Press Association's 2008 advertising contest. via The Birmingham News

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An off-duty Jefferson County sheriff's deputy was shot in the shoulder by a burglar at his home. via WAAY-TV Huntsville

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“Cottenham's offense was blackness.”

Writing in 1921, newspaperman Herbert J. Seligmann reported that decades after emancipation, white Southern judges routinely sold African-Americans into peonage or quasi-slavery for such "crimes" as debt and ... via News Observer

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“We've been shoveling out the mud”

Posted by Jon Anderson -- Birmingham News May 01, 2008 12:05 PM Birmingham News reporter Tiffany Ray, in Wednesday's Hoover News, told us about a 1-acre outdoor learning center under construction at Bluff Park ... via Everything Alabama

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The Birmingham News, as it traditionally has done, will make recommendations in the party primaries, set this year for June 3. We invite any candidate for statewide office as well as those running in Jefferson ... via Birmingham News Online

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