Q: Is he a friend of yours, Mr. Milton McGregor? A: Oh, I know him. Yes, ma’am. I know him. Q: What’s the extent of your personal relationship with him: acquaintances, close friends? A: No, just a

Employees at The Birmingham News will be subject to graduated pay cuts, management there told staff today. The newspaper will also close suburban bureaus by the end of the summer and some part-time st

Except for members of the Alabama Legislature, it has been fashionable for political do-gooders in our state to support constitution reform. The reasons have been well established. The Alabama Constit

The conversion of Second, Third and Fourth Avenues North and 13th, 14th, 17th and 18th Streets North from one-way streets into two-way streets would not reduce the amount on-street parking available d

The Alabama Legislature ended its 2009 session last week. After three months of work, the best that can be said is that the Legislature met its constitutional obligation to pass the state budgets. How

In April 2007, I was at the Jefferson County courthouse, preparing to leave after covering a county commission committee meeting. Just as I was about to step into the elevator, I heard a voice from ar

For the first time since federal investigators exposed a massive accounting fraud at HealthSouth six years ago, the former CEO Richard M. Scrushy testified in court today, telling his version of what

Six years ago, $40,000 for boob jobs could be chalked off as a business expense. It could and it was — just one more of the bizarre expenses HealthSouth incurred during the leadership of former CEO

In the second day of Richard Scrushy’s civil trial, the court heard from HealthSouth CEO Jay Grinney, who has led the company since 2004. On the stand, Grinney testified about the conditions of the c

What if they threw a Scrushy trial and nobody came? On Monday morning, the lawyers in Jefferson County, Ala., Circuit Court outnumbered the media, family and spectators combined. Nothing unusual ab