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Auburn University’s Active Shooter Response Program trains thousands in best practices

Guest Author February 22, 2018

By: Preston Sparks | Auburn University’s Office of Communications and Marketing How should you respond in the midst of an active shooter incident? It’s a question once again in the forefront as our nation grieves another mass school shooting. Since its inception nine years ago, Auburn University’s Active Shooter Response Program has provided the answer to thousands, helping lead the way in training among many agencies and schools throughout the nation and world. “Our goal is to provide those in need of such life-saving information the tools by which to act with best practices,” said Chance Corbett, interim executive director for Auburn University’s Department of Campus Safety and Security, noting

Team aims to find site of missing Tuskegee Airman’s plane

Associated Press May 15, 2017

Unless they’re named Indiana and wear a fedora, archaeologists typically don’t attempt to solve historical mysteries in a single summer. But that’s exactly what University of New Orleans archaeologist D. Ryan Gray is hoping to do this summer when he leads a team of students and others to southern Austria, to investigate a site where they believe one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen went down near the end of World War II. The site, close to the Italian border and the Austrian town of Villach, is near the last reported sighting of Capt. Lawrence Dickson, a pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group of the 100th Fighter Squadron. Just

Leonardo plans to produce advanced Air Force trainer in Tuskegee

Alabama NewsCenter March 31, 2017

Gov. Robert Bentley announced today that Leonardo, a global aerospace and defense firm, will create 750 jobs at an advanced assembly center at Tuskegee’s Moton Field if the company’s T-100 jet trainer wins a U.S. Air Force competition for a next-generation training aircraft. Bentley, Tuskegee University officials, Tuskegee Mayor Tony Haygood and community leaders joined executives of Leonardo at a ceremony at the airfield to announce plans for the Alabama manufacturing center. Moton Field, off Interstate 85 Exit 38, is home to the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site. This rendering shows Leonardo’s planned T-100 production center at Moton Field in Tuskegee. (Leonardo) The Leonardo project in Tuskegee calls for the

Longtime Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford loses re-election bid

Elizabeth Patton August 24, 2016

Tuskegee Hills will have a new mayor. City councilman Tony Haygood won the Aug. 23 municipal election with 62 percent — 1,401 votes to 865 — over longtime incumbent Johnny Ford. Haygood currently serves as the city’s councilman at large and mayor pro tem. As the new mayor, he says he wants to work on financial stability, revitalizing downtown, strengthening the relationship between the city and Tuskegee University, and make sure the city will be financially stable. Outgoing mayor Ford was first elected mayor of Tuskegee in 1972 and has served in the office for 32 of the last 44 years. He also served as a state representative. “I would like

Roscoe Brown, Jr., Tuskegee Airman and educator, dies at 94

Associated Press July 5, 2016

Roscoe Brown Jr., who served with the all-black Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was a longtime New York City educator, has died. Brown died Saturday at a hospital in the Bronx after breaking his hip in a recent fall, his granddaughter Lisa Bodine said. He was 94. In 2007, Brown and five other airmen accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on behalf of the Tuskegee Airmen. President George W. Bush and Congress awarded the airmen with one of the nation’s highest honors for fighting to defend their country even as they faced bigotry at home. At the time, Brown told The Associated Press that receiving the medal

Gov. Kay Ivey awards six Alabama companies with Trade Excellence

Brandon Moseley May 9, 2023

On Wednesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey hosted the Governor’s Trade Excellence Awards Ceremony. During the event, Governor Ivey signed a proclamation proclaiming May as World Trade Month. This year’s ceremony recognized six of Alabama’s top international trade exporters and finest trade companies, as well as the 2023 Trade Advocate of the Year. “I recognized @TuskegeeUniv and six Alabama companies for their trade success in the global market,” Gov. Ivey said on Twitter. “Their economic activities ranged from automotive manufacturing to food production.” The six exporters honored in the Governor’s Trade Excellence Awards were: · Adah International LLC · Bud’s Best Cookies · Canfor Southern Pine · Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama · ICONN Orthopedics

Daniel Sutter: Should taxpayers support Birmingham Southern?

Daniel Sutter March 7, 2023

Birmingham Southern College (BSC), founded in 1856, has requested $37.5 million in assistance from the state, the city of Birmingham, and Jefferson County. President Daniel Coleman warns that without assistance, the school could close this May. BSC’s troubles afford state lawmakers an opportunity for bold higher education reform. I will first mention but not evaluate several relevant considerations for potential aid. Is BSC truly near closing, or is the crisis being manufactured to help solicit state funds? Will this be one-time or continuing support? Will other Alabama colleges seek government assistance if BSC succeeds? One could take the principled stand that government should not assist private businesses or colleges.

USDA climate-smart agriculture projects now top $3 billion

Associated Press December 13, 2022

The federal government on Monday announced another $325 million for agricultural projects that are intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The latest list of 71 recipients for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Climate-Smart Commodities program primarily involves small and underserved farmers and ranchers. The payments follow $2.8 billion awarded in September to 70 projects, mostly larger-scale efforts backed by universities, businesses, and agricultural groups. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the latest round of funding at Tuskegee University, a historically Black college in Alabama, saying it’s vital that small operations benefit from the program. “It’s important that we send a message that it’s not about the size of your

Voter turnout sagging in troubled voting rights hub of Selma

Associated Press March 4, 2022

Fewer and fewer people are voting in Selma, Alabama. And to many, that is particularly heartbreaking. They lament that almost six decades after Black demonstrators on the city’s Edmond Pettus Bridge risked their lives for the right to cast ballots, voting in predominantly Black Selma and surrounding Dallas County has steadily declined. Turnout in 2020 was under 57%, among the worst in the state. “It should not be that way. We should have a large voter turnout in all elections,” said Michael Jackson, a Black district attorney elected with support from voters of all races. Thousands will gather on March 6 for this year’s re-enactment of the bridge

UAB Health mandates shots as events canceled, masks ordered

Associated Press August 18, 2021

A major state employer, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System, said Tuesday it would require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as communities large and small canceled events and more schools ordered face masks to confront the worsening surge of the coronavirus. UAB Health announced that both employees and others working in its hospitals and clinics must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 12. The requirement affects 16,000 employees and could help boost the state’s last-in-the-nation ranking for the shots. Employees of UAB Health are already required to be vaccinated against other health threats, including the flu, the system said, and COVID-19 is threatening its

Selma-to-Montgomery march camps top list of endangered sites

Associated Press June 4, 2021

The landmark voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 didn’t happen in just one day: Participants spent four nights camping along the roughly 55-mile (89-kilometer) route through Alabama, sleeping in tents and near farm buildings under the watch of guards to prevent white supremacist attacks. Now threatened by decades of weather and wear, the campsites used by those marchers are among the nation’s most endangered historic places, according to a new assessment by a preservation group. The sites, along with 10 other locations in nine states, need immediate attention or risk being lost, according to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation. Three of the campsites

Alabama virus hospitalizations hit lowest point since fall

Associated Press February 19, 2021

The number of people in Alabama hospitals with COVID-19 dipped Thursday to around 1,000, the lowest since late autumn. The decline in hospitalizations, daily new cases and the percent of tests coming back positive — three major barometers of the pandemic’s severity — is an encouraging sign that the state has emerged from the record-setting winter surge, said Dr. Don Williamson, the president of the Alabama Hospital Association. An unknown, however, is if the state will see another spike from the spread of variants. COVID-19 hospitalizations have declined from more than 3,000 on Jan. 11 to 1,003 on Thursday, the lowest level since early November “These are the

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