Mississippi writer Deborah Johnson wins Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction
Tuscaloosa News – June 30
A Columbus, Miss.-based writer has earned the 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her book “The Secret of Magic.” The annual prize is awarded to a book-length work of fiction that best illuminates the role of lawyers in society and their power to bring about change. The prize is authorized by Lee and co-sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal. “I am thrilled and I thank the University of Alabama, the ABA Journal and the judges so very much for this wonderful honor,” Deborah Johnson said in a news release. The prize was launched in 2010 to honor Lee, a former UA law student, and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “To Kill A Mockingbird.”
University Medical Center to open new location in Northport
Tuscaloosa News – June 30
University Medical Center, which is run by the University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences, will open a new location Wednesday in Northport. University Medical Center-Northport will be in the Fitness One building, 1325 McFarland Blvd., Suite 102. The opening of University Medical Center-Northport will be a relocation of University Medical Center-Warrior Family Medicine, University Medical Center’s location in Fairfax Park in Tuscaloosa, which closed June 26. Patients and providers from University Medical Center-Warrior Family Medicine will move to the new location.
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – June 29
Tuscaloosa County waiting to give out same-sex marriage licenses
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – June 29
Tuscaloosa County Probate Judge Hardy McCollum was clear on Friday that he believes the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage has a 21-day period before it takes effect, allowing his court to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples…. Legal experts say that all local defiance of Supreme Court rulings are illegal, and in this case, unconstitutional. University of Alabama law professor Bryan Fair is a constitutional law expert. He says the Supreme Court ruling is effective immediately. “Federal constitutional law is the supreme law of the land. That, when there’s a conflict between local law and the laws interpreted by the Supreme Court, the federal Supreme Court’s interpretation controls local law.”
Summer Enrichment Workshop
Tuscaloosa News – June 27 (Photo Gallery)
Karlee Booth, 10, makes ice cream during Parents Day, the conclusion of the University of Alabama’s 38th annual Summer Enrichment Workshop at Matthews Elementary School Friday, June 26, 2015. The University of Alabama College of Education’s Gifted and Talented Education Program puts on the event which 225 kids in kindergarten through eighth grade participated in.