University of Alabama at Birmingham

ATLANTA -- An unfamiliar, unlit pool and a split-second decision to dive. That tragic combination changed Chase Jones’ life forever. The 28-year-old University of Georgia graduate broke three vertebrae in his neck, leaving him largely paralyzed...

* Fiscal needs pile up but few seen as acute as flight delays * Congress may find it difficult to say no to cancer patients By David Lawder WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - As Congress sifts through a growing number of requests for targeted relief from...

ATLANTA - Key events in 1963, from organized protests in Alabama to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, galvanized the civil rights movement that eventually toppled Jim Crow laws in the South. The 50th anniversary of those events is a...

Brandon Zimmerman, a Shelter Insurance Co. agent at Barling, has been honored as one of Shelter's highest-achieving sales representatives, based on overall 2012 agency operations. The Champion designation recognizes members of a select group of...

I am a graduating senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I'm not your typical Alabama college student and Birmingham isn't your typical Alabama city. I wanted to say thanks for the story ["Moving Ever Forward," by Alice Short, April 14] on our...

Montgomery's first magnet school now has been named the nation's best. Loveless Academic Magnet Program High was ranked the No. 1 magnet school as well as the No. 7 high school in the nation in the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report. It was...

Forget about learning the state capitals, at least, as the sum total of your knowledge of geography. "Geography is about meaning, not knowing place names and memorizing lists — that was school geography," said Daniel Edelson, vice president for...

 Joshua Leonard, a junior at Aberdeen Central High School, got in front of his classmates Monday and told them a story about a leprechaun, a rainbow and his pot of gold while he made paperclips leap into the air.  The occurence wasn't all that random;...

The U.S. Surgeon General will give the commencement address at Hampton University's graduation ceremony May 12. Dr. Regina Benjamin will be the university's 143rd commencement speaker and will receive an honorary doctor of science degree at the...

Northwestern University researchers said they have created compounds that could slow the effects of Parkinson's disease, a brain disorder that affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. The compounds prevent calcium from flooding parts of the brain...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The amount of caffeine that's typically found in two cups of coffee may contribute to a man's incontinence, according to a new study. "It's something to consider... People who are having problems with urinary incontinence...

Taking a multivitamin may help prevent cancer in healthy middle-aged men, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study Scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School...