Skip to Main Content
Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

Serving The University of Alabama since 1894.

The Crimson White

NEWS

Engineering conference held at UA

Adam Greene May 30, 2012

The 53rd biennial International Field Emissions Symposium, held in Tuscaloosa from May 20 to 25, hosted over 180 professionals from 12 countries in a conference detailing and discussing new strides being...

Students complete three weeks of service in Marion

Ashley Chaffin May 30, 2012

Thirty University of Alabama students spent May 7-25 in Marion, Ala., carrying out projects aimed to help the small Black Belt community. “[Community members] seemed really happy to be able to partner...

Local businesses bend but don’t break in summer

Katherine Owen May 29, 2012

Tuscaloosa retailers and restaurants are fighting to survive the summer, when students, who make up a majority of their profits, have fled the city. Some stores are lucky enough to have a regular local...

Northport man arrested after shots fired on Strip

Northport man arrested after shots fired on Strip

Tray Smith May 3, 2012

  Law enforcement officers with the Tuscaloosa and University of Alabama Police departments responded to a discharging firearm call at the Bear Trap on University Blvd. at 1:36 a.m. Thursday, where...

Student hospitalized after Burke fight

Tray Smith April 30, 2012

A female UA student was sent to DCH this afternoon after incurring non-life threatening injuries from a pocketknife. The student received the injuries during an altercation in the Burke West residence...

Counseling, community help tornado victims cope

Melissa Brown April 26, 2012

Long after the tornado receded and the rubble settled, the April 27 tornado continued to tear through people’s hearts and minds. Many students and residents affected by the tornado have dealt with ongoing...

Storm prompts campaign to make Holt a city

Storm prompts campaign to make Holt a city

Jasmine Cannon April 26, 2012

A parade of 50 people marched through Holt last month in favor of making the community something it’s never been before: a city. Residents and supporters held up signs and chanted, “What do we want?...

Brown’s Greenhouses makes a comeback

Brown’s Greenhouses makes a comeback

Katherine Martin April 26, 2012

It never crossed Margaret Brown’s mind not to reopen the greenhouses she and her husband Riley Brown had owned and operated for 28 years. Along with the Brown’s home in Cherrywood Circle in Holt,...

Alberta on slow road to recovery

Alberta on slow road to recovery

Stephen N. Dethrage April 26, 2012

A year after the storm damaged or destroyed more than half of Tuscaloosa’s Alberta neighborhood, much of the area is still ruined, cleared, or vacant. The lack of visible progress has left many questioning...

Habitat rebuilds house for local man

Habitat rebuilds house for local man

Stephen N. Dethrage April 26, 2012

Bernard Jefferson earns his money feeding the residents of a nursing and rehabilitation home in Northport, but since April of last year, he has lived without someone to feed him. That month, an EF4 tornado...

With new members, church plans to rebuild

With new members, church plans to rebuild

Ashanka Kumari April 26, 2012

For Teresa Croom, College Hill Baptist Church was the one thing she had left of her grandfather. When the UA senior first stepped into the church after the storm, everything was in disarray. The roof...

Year of recovery brings family closer together

Year of recovery brings family closer together

Ashanka Kumari April 26, 2012

Kevin Bannister biked two and a half miles from Alberta City to his sister’s home several hours after the tornado on April 27, 2011. The only thing he had was a small flashlight between his teeth to...