May 2022 – Page 5

Biden orders flags at half-staff today to mark 1 million COVID deaths

May 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Leada Gore President Biden has ordered flags lowered to half-staff today to mark 1 million Americans lost to COVID-19. The president released a statement Thursday morning ahead of a pre-recorded address to a virtual COVID-19 summit. […]

CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER FRED GRAY RECEIVES HONORARY DEGREE FROM UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

May 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Ruth Serven Smith The University of Alabama presented civil rights pioneer and attorney Fred Gray with an honorary law degree May 8. Gray, born in 1930 in Montgomery, attended Alabama State for his bachelor’s and […]

OBITUARIES 5/18 – 5/24/2024

May 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

TRAGIC DEATHS Buffalo supermarket shooting: 77-year-old Alabama native killed in Tops massacre was ‘a Godly woman’ Birmingham remembers police officers killed in the line of duty: ‘This profession is an honorable one’ Biden orders flags […]

LEGAL ADS 5/18 – 5/24/2022

May 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

SHERIFF’S SALEUnder and by the virtue of an execution issued out of the DISTRICT Court of MADISON County on a Judgment rendered against ROBERT L. JAMES, IV aka LEE JAMES,IV Defendant(s) and in favor REDSTONE […]

One Woman’s Opinion

May 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

Thanks to Speakin Out News and to our many dedicated readers. The weather has been so nice lately. I hope everyone is getting out and enjoying it. Time passes fast and this year is flying […]

“Freedom, Love, And Faith”

May 18, 2022 Bouldin 0

Scriptural text: Galatians 5: 1-15 Lesson Context: The epistle Galatians was written to the churches scattered throughout Galatia ( a portion of modern day Turkey). Paul wrote the Galatian epistle to speak to an issue […]

‘He’s been taken from us’: 2021 disappearance of 68-year-old Alabama man now a homicide probe with $20K reward

May 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Carol Robinson It was a Monday morning more than six months ago that 68-year-old Sterling Emanuel Jones kissed his wife goodbye and said, “I’ll be back.” That was Oct. 25, 2021, and Jones’ family would […]

Most Alabama abortions would be banned if Roe v. Wade is overturned: What to know

May 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Rebecca Griesbach Alabama’s near-total abortion ban would immediately take effect if a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision is overturned. In 1973, Roe v. Wade granted all Americans the right to an abortion. Since then, Alabama and […]

After Roe opinion, who’s going to protect Alabama from Alabama?

May 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Kyle Whitmire, state political columnist for the Alabama Media Group, 2020 winner of the Walker Stone Award, winner of the 2021 SPJ award for opinion writing, and 2021 winner of the Molly Ivins prize […]

Baby formula shortage gets worse: Outages 40% in some places

May 11, 2022 Bouldin 0

By Leada Gore The shortage of baby formula is getting worse. Figures from Datassembly shows for the first seven months of 2021, out-of-stock percentages for baby formula fluctuated between 2-8%. In July, that moved into double digits and, […]