Jay Reeves
The Associated Press
Birmingham, AL, United States
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Recent articles by Jay:
U.S. captives ‘prayed for death’ on brutal ride from Ukraine
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Even after three months of captivity that included execution threats, physical torture, solitary confinement and food deprivation, it was the ride to freedom that nearly bro… → Read More
Regions Bank to refund $141M for illegal overdraft fees
Regions Bank for a second time in a decade was found charging illegal overdraft fees, the government said Wednesday, in a settlement that will require the bank to repay $141 million to customers and pay an additional $50 million in fees. → Read More
Regions Bank to refund $141M for illegal overdraft fees
Regions Bank for a second time in a decade was found charging illegal overdraft fees in a settlement that will require the bank to repay $141 million to customers plus $50 million in fines → Read More
Regions Bank to refund $141M for illegal overdraft fees
Regions Bank for a second time in a decade was found charging illegal overdraft fees, the government said Wednesday. → Read More
Book shows personal side of ‘Mockingbird’ author Harper Lee
To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the best-selling books ever, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” To Wayne Flynt, the Alabama-born author was his friend, Nelle. → Read More
Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of ’63 16th Street Baptist bombing in Birmingham
Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls at an Alabama church 59 years ago, and she's still waiting on the state to compensate her for those injuries. → Read More
Alabama sidesteps compensation for survivor of '63 KKK blast
Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls at an Alabama church 59 years ago, and she's still waiting on the state to compensate her for those injuries. → Read More
Ruby Bridges, who fought segregation as 6-year-old trailblazer, writes kids book
The book, aimed at readers as young as 4, tells Bridges' story as an uplifting tale to teach children to start making a difference. → Read More
Black woman who integrated Southern school writes kid’s book
Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six … → Read More
Black Pastor arrested by 3 white cops while watering neighbor's flowers
CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (AP) — Michael Jennings wasn’t breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously suspicious... → Read More
Watering while Black: anatomy of a pastor's Alabama arrest
Michael Jennings wasn't breaking any laws or doing anything that was obviously suspicious; the Black minister was simply watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town. → Read More
Watering while Black: anatomy of a pastor's Alabama arrest
A Black pastor plans to sue an Alabama town whose white police officers placed him in handcuffs after he refused to identify himself while watering flowers for his neighbor on private property → Read More
Rosalynn Carter marking 95th birthday with butterflies
The former first lady turns 95 today. Here's how she's celebrating. → Read More
Rosalynn Carter turning 95 Thursday, marking birthday with butterflies
Rosalynn Carter, the 2nd-oldest first lady ever, turns 95 Thursday on a birthday that will be marked not just with cards and best wishes, but with butterflies. → Read More
Rosalynn Carter marking 95th birthday with butterflies
Rosalynn Carter, the second-oldest U.S. first lady ever, turns 95 Thursday on a birthday that will be marked not just with cards and best wishes, but with butterflies. → Read More
Rosalynn Carter marking 95th birthday with butterflies
Rosalynn Carter, the second-oldest U.S. first lady ever, turns 95 Thursday on a birthday that will be marked not just with cards and best wishes, but with... → Read More
Rosalynn Carter marking 95th birthday with butterflies
Rosalynn Carter turns 95 Thursday, and her birthday is being marked with butterflies → Read More
Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Emmett Till case
Nearly 70 years later, Donham's retelling of the days surrounding Till's abduction and lynching stokes fresh frustration among relatives of Till and activists pushing for Donham's prosecution, particularly now that a Mississippi grand jury has decided against charging her with kidnapping in his abduction or manslaughter in his death. → Read More
Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case
By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with... → Read More
Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case
By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than prosecution after her encounter with Emmett Till led to the lynching of the Black teenager in the summer of 1955. → Read More