Amy Yurkanin

A video Saturday showed a confrontation between the owner and a group of Black and white customers.

Kenneth Sharpton-Glasgow said his father wrote to him and asked him to go by the name Sharpton while he was in federal prison.

Grove Hill Memorial Hospital will end labor and delivery services in August and convert to a Rural Emergency Hospital. It will leave a large region of the state without a hospital that delivers babies.

Grove Hill Memorial is closing one of rural south Alabama’s last birthing units; East Alabama Medical Center-Lanier will become a Rural Emergency Hospital.

In Alabama, lawmakers moved to ban delta-8 and similar products in 2021 and 2022, but settled for a bill that restricts their sale to those 21 and older. Similar fights have been playing out in other states wrestling with the proliferation of intoxicating products with limited federal oversight.

The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved a $450 million acquisition Tuesday of Ascension St. Vincent’s, which operates a flagship hospital in Birmingham, alongside smaller facilities in east Birmingham, St. Clair County, Blount County and Chilton County.

UAB has launched its first tele-ICU unit at Whitfield Regional Hospital in Demopolis. Nurses and specialists can continuously monitor the vital signs of patients in the ICU about 100 miles away.

A state program will offer more families free autopsies for moms who die in the first year after birth to help reduce Alabama’s high rate of maternal mortality

Federal officials want to use a new tool to enforce laws against child labor against a Jasper chicken plant. They are asking a judge to stop the sale of all chicken tainted with child labor for 30 days, a move that the attorneys for the plant said would hurt workers and the local economy.

The backlash against a bill sponsored by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., included claims it would create a national registry of pregnant women. But the proposed website, Pregnancy.gov, would not require women to submit personal information and does not include questions about pregnancy status, a spokesman said.