MONTGOMERY, Alabama, May 9 -- Gov. Kay Ivey, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed Senate Bill 270, a bill to set specific timelines that public entities in Alabama must follow when responding to public records requests. Sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr and Rep. Cynthia Almond, Senate Bill 270 is the most significant amendment to Alabama's public records law in over fifty years. Last year, upon beginning her second term as governor, Gove  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- George Washington University issued the following news: Two types of Planters nuts are being recalled due to the risk of potential listeria contamination. The manufacturer, Hormel Foods, says the recall affects certain Planters honey roasted peanuts and Planters mixed nuts shipped to Publix warehouses in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. This als impacts Dollar Tree warehouses in South Carolina and Georgia. There have been no reports of illnesses. The Georg  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, May 9 -- Samford University issued the following news release: Does the timing of a game significantly impact athletic performance? Grace Colyar, who recently graduated Samford University's School of Public Health with a Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics and a concentration in sports injury prevention analytics, researched "Effects of Game Start Time on Basketball Metrics" to find out. In April, she presented this abstract and another study examining t  more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, May 8 -- Eckerd College issued the following news: * * * Just before the opening performance of Eckerd College's theatre production of The Bacchae, Grey Curcio, Nicole Vogler and Hanna Kobs celebrated backstage. * * * By Ashlyn Fransen Each of them had earned recognition in the Region 3 Mark of Excellence Awards of the Society of Professional Journalists for their work at Triton Publications, which houses the student newspaper The Current and Cat. 5 magazine. SPJ's   more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, May 9 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: Caroline Bendickson, a junior at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected as a Goldwater Scholar for her work in plant genomics. A double major in chemistry and biology with a minor in math, she is UAH's third Goldwater Scholar in the past four years. UAH is a part of The University of Alabama System. The Goldwater Scholarship program "was designed to identify, encourage, and financially   more