http://www.mail.com/locations/40400-birmingham.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/40400-birmingham.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2075388-senate-oks-honor-birmingham-bombing-victims.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Four victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing at the height of the civil rights movement are now just a presidential signature away from receiving Congress' highest civilian honor. The Senate on Thursday approved by voice vote a measure that would posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, C... Thu, 09 May 2013 23:02:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2075388-senate-oks-honor-birmingham-bombing-victims.html 2013-05-09T23:02:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2042434-house-oks-honoring-birmingham-ala-victims.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Four young victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing that marked one of the darkest moments of the civil rights movement are one step closer to receiving Congress' highest civilian honor. By a 420-0 vote, the House on Wednesday passed a measure that posthumously would award the Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Carole Rober... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:35:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2042434-house-oks-honoring-birmingham-ala-victims.html 2013-04-24T20:35:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2011444-survivor-63-ala-church-bombing-seeks-funds.html BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls said Wednesday she wants millions in compensation for her injuries and won't accept a top congressional award proposed to honor the victims. Sarah Collins Rudolph, in an interview with The Associated Press, said she feels forgotten 50 years after the bl... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2011444-survivor-63-ala-church-bombing-seeks-funds.html 2013-04-10T23:43:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1980664-city-inspect-airport-monitors-that-fell.html BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A large cabinet housing flight monitors that toppled on a 10-year-old Kansas boy, killing him and seriously injuring his mother at Birmingham's newly renovated airport, wasn't inspected by the city after installation, the city said Tuesday. Steve Stine, an assistant city attorney, said the flight information display that killed Luk... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:39:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1980664-city-inspect-airport-monitors-that-fell.html 2013-03-26T20:39:39Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1976872-mom-boy-killed-ala-airport-sign-unconscious.html MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — As airport officials tried to figure out how a 300-pound arrival-departure panel fell off the wall and onto a family, the mother of a boy who was killed by the sign lay in a hospital with her own injuries, still unaware of what happened. Heather Bresette and two of her other sons were seriously hurt when the panel fell Friday at th... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:21:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1976872-mom-boy-killed-ala-airport-sign-unconscious.html 2013-03-25T01:21:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1974372-ala-airport-sign-falls-family-killing-boy.html BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A sign at the Birmingham airport fell on a family Friday, killing a 10-year boy and injuring other family members. Deputy Coroner Derrick Perryman said 10-year-old Luke Bresette was pronounced dead at Children's of Alabama. Two other children were being treated there, and the mother, Heather Bresette, was taken to University Hospit... Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:34:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1974372-ala-airport-sign-falls-family-killing-boy.html 2013-03-23T04:34:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1911656-escape-clause-save-voting-rights-provision.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and civil rights groups are defending a key section of the landmark voting rights law at the Supreme Court by pointing reformed state, county and local governments to an escape hatch from the law's strictest provision. The Voting Rights Act effectively attacked persistent discrimination at the polls by keeping cl... Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:47:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1911656-escape-clause-save-voting-rights-provision.html 2013-02-25T08:47:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1838770-recognition-sought-church-bombing-victims.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 50 years ago, white supremacists planted a bomb in a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four young girls preparing to worship, an act of terror that shocked the nation and propelled Congress to pass that historic 1964 Civil Rights Act. Lawmakers now want to honor those victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing with the C... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1838770-recognition-sought-church-bombing-victims.html 2013-01-22T20:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1816940-eugene-patterson-89-voice-civil-rights-dies.html ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Eugene Patterson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist whose impassioned words helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement as it unfolded across the South, has died at 89. Patterson, who helped fellow whites to understand the problems of racial discrimination, died Saturday evening in Florida after comp... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1816940-eugene-patterson-89-voice-civil-rights-dies.html 2013-01-13T08:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1815982-1963-50-years-tumult-echoes.html A new year was just beginning — an extraordinary year, in which so much would change. Half a century ago, on Jan. 14, 1963, George Wallace took the podium to give his inaugural address as governor of Alabama. His words framed a fiery rejoinder to a civil rights movement gathering strength. "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gaun... Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1815982-1963-50-years-tumult-echoes.html 2013-01-13T05:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1804556-fewer-gun-buyers-us-mass-shooting.html WASHINGTON (AP) — People who lived in the two states that saw the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012 were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year than those in most other states, according to an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data. The latest government figures also reflect huge increases across the U.S. in the number of ... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1804556-fewer-gun-buyers-us-mass-shooting.html 2013-01-07T17:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1803390-fewer-excited-gun-buyers-colo-conn.html WASHINGTON (AP) — In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year than in most other states, according to an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data. The biggest surges in background checks for people who want to carry or buy guns occurred in states in the South a... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1803390-fewer-excited-gun-buyers-colo-conn.html 2013-01-07T07:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1801740-ole-crushes-pitt-38-17-bbva-compass-bowl.html BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Hugh Freeze needed only one year to make a winner out of a Mississippi team that was woeful in 2011. The coach noted with satisfaction that most experts didn't predict such dramatic improvement in his first season. Bo Wallace threw three touchdown passes and Ole Miss beat Pittsburgh 38-17 in the BBVA Compass Bowl on Saturday to com... Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:22:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/1801740-ole-crushes-pitt-38-17-bbva-compass-bowl.html 2013-01-05T22:22:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1801600-bombing-victim-grateful-tragedy-counseling.html PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — When Carolyn McKinstry hears that young survivors of a mass shooting like last month's in Connecticut are receiving counseling, she can speak to its value through her own experience — or lack of it. McKinstry was 15 years old when she survived the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., where four g... Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:32:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1801600-bombing-victim-grateful-tragedy-counseling.html 2013-01-05T19:32:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1784336-alabama-terror-case-hinge-relationships.html MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The terrorism case against an Alabama man accused of planning to wage violent jihad in Africa may hinge on just how well he knew a man on the FBI's most-wanted terrorist list. Federal prosecutors portrayed Randy Wilson as an Islamic radical who wanted to reunite with Omar Hammami, an American who also grew up in Alabama but has since b... Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1784336-alabama-terror-case-hinge-relationships.html 2012-12-23T17:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1777022-armored-backpacks-rush-guns-conn.html SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When Ken Larson's 1-year-old son starts school in a few years, he'll be carrying an armored backpack. After the Connecticut school shooting, Larson and his wife decided to buy him one just to be safe. Larson already owns one himself that he takes to movie theaters. "It's a no brainer. My son's life is invaluable," said Larson, 41, of... Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1777022-armored-backpacks-rush-guns-conn.html 2012-12-20T20:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1769094-ala-police-kill-suspects-separate-shootings.html BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama say a SWAT team shot dead a man wielding an assault rifle following a chase touched off by a triple killing, hours after a separate weekend shooting at a hospital in the state. Saturday's shootings continued a violent several days in Alabama. East of Birmingham, police said the man armed with an AK-47 assault rifl... Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1769094-ala-police-kill-suspects-separate-shootings.html 2012-12-16T09:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1764406-man-shoots-inside-ala-federal-courthouse.html BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A worker who killed himself inside an Alabama federal courthouse Thursday went through an employee entrance to avoid a security check that could have caught the gun, officials said. The U.S. Marshals Service said the worker used an access card to enter the Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse in Birmingham. The card system is being used a... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1764406-man-shoots-inside-ala-federal-courthouse.html 2012-12-13T20:57:00Z