An on-campus program grants UAB students opportunities that go beyond interning.

For nearly six years, Brett Forsyth and Brandon Watkins operated their printing business out of Forsyth's basement while also working full-time jobs. When the owners of Yellowhammer Creative were approached to join a new community workspace in Avondale last year, they decided it might be their chance to make a career out of their part-time passion. **Author's Note: Original six-page layout was published in Birmingham Magazine with beautiful photos taken by Cary Norton. The size of the PDF was too large for this specific website to carry. Send me an email to mataylor5@crimson.ua.edu if you would like to view the aesthetic photo shoot and layout that isn't shown on AL.com's site.**

The FBI's cyberbullying program helps educare students and parents dangers online.

These high-tech goodies will amp up any football gathering.

Wedding Planners offer unique ways to incorporate something old into your big day.

Playing Her Song, Space to Create and Fish Fry are all short features highlighting Birmingham's popular trends, people and events.

A group of local bankers, hence their name Total Assets, performed at Iron City Birmingham July 2014 to celebrate their 25th anniversary.

After giving her son up for adoption, Cheryl Culpepper never anticipated that 27 years later she would meet her firstborn son. Her son, Brandon Vaughan said he was adopted by good parents who gave him a good life. Vaughan said he never felt the desire to find his birth mother until his son was born about five years ago.

Most people would picture a Dalmatian dog as the typical fire department mascot, but Nicol Volunteer Fire Department’s mascot is a Dalmatian who is more likely to cluck than bark. “She’s a cutie,” said Gaston Wilson, Nicol VFD’s chief, when describing the department’s as-yet-unnamed 1-month-old Dalmatian chicken.

Tears came to the eyes of Vietnam veteran Fred Linksweiler on Friday when he spoke about those who fought alongside him in combat. In Linksweiler's company, 87 men never made it back home from Vietnam. He said 63 men died and 24 are still listed as missing in action. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6022 in Cottondale hosted its seventh commemoration of POW/MIA Recognition Day on Friday.