Brookside, Alabama
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Brookside is a town in north-central Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 1,253. It is a former mining town.
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Brookside (erected 1916, renovated 1965)
The Birmingham News
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The Birmingham News was the principal newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States in the latter half of the 20th century and the first quarter of the 21st. The paper was owned by Advance Publicat
Brookside, Alabama
…16 km2), of which 6.0 square miles (16 km2) are land and 0.17% is water. In 2022, an investigative report by John Archibald of AL.com (the website of The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, and the Press-Register of Mobile) uncovered a surge in Brookside Police's aggressive and arbitrary ticketing of motorists passing…
Front page on September 16, 1963, after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
The 1917 Birmingham News building, vacated in 2006 and demolished in 2008
Building built for The Birmingham News in 2006, but put on the market and vacated by The News in 2014 after Alabama Media Group could no longer afford the building.