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  • 2 days ago | wvtm13.com | Magdala Louissaint

    There are some new faces of recruits hoping to join the next summer academy class with the Birmingham Police Department, but there's one thing standing in their way. That's passing the physical agility test required to become an officer. "My only weakness was the pushups, but I’m getting there. I’ll find a way. I’ll do it,” Naomi Magun, a recruit, said. Mary Harris, also a recruit, added, "I failed the first one, came back a week or two later.

  • 3 days ago | wvtm13.com | Magdala Louissaint

    13 NEWS AT SIX STARTS NOW. A VIOLENT ENCOUNTER. A LOCAL BUSINESS DAMAGED AND IT WAS ALL CAUGHT ON CAMERA. THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED, AND IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME THEY’VE HAD TO PAY TO CLEAN IT UP. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AT SIX. I’M SHERI FALK. I’M GUY RAWLINGS. THE MOST RECENT INCIDENT HAPPENED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING OUTSIDE OF FIVE POINTS SOUTH RESTAURANT.

  • 1 week ago | kesq.com | Magdala Louissaint

    By Magdala LouissaintClick here for updates on this story BIRMINGHAM, Alabama ( WVTM) - Just a few weeks ago, about a dozen homeless people were sleeping and eating outside of a closed gas station on Finley Boulevard. It drew so much attention that Artie Gilbert, executive director of Urban Alchemy, and staff got a phone call about it.

  • 1 week ago | phillytrib.com | Magdala Louissaint

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Just a few weeks ago, about a dozen homeless people were sleeping and eating outside of a closed gas station on Finley Boulevard. It drew so much attention that Artie Gilbert, executive director of Urban Alchemy, and staff got a phone call about it. “We communicated there was a complaint and a call sent in about coming to provide some services, not to actually move them, but to provide some services because that’s the best way to go about it,” Gilbert said.

  • 1 week ago | wvtm13.com | Magdala Louissaint

    Just a few weeks ago, about a dozen homeless people were sleeping and eating outside of a closed gas station on Finley Boulevard. It drew so much attention that Artie Gilbert, executive director of Urban Alchemy, and staff got a phone call about it. “We communicated there was a complaint and a call sent in about coming to provide some services, not to actually move them, but to provide some services because that's the best way to go about it,” Gilbert said.

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