Columns
Tuberville: Raising Awareness About Mental Health
The COVID-19 pandemic brought on a series of challenges unlike any we’ve witnessed during our lifetime. Society as ... Read more
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Editorials
Saving lives by the numbers
Let’s talk numbers, and three specifically: 988. In 2020, the United States enacted the National Suicide Hotline Designation ... Read more
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988 line offers alternative to 911 for mental health crises
Health officials are hopeful the July 16 launch of the nationwide 988 mental health crisis line will help ... Read more
Columns
COMMENTARY: Best man I have ever known
Editor’s note: This column discusses topics that might be sensitive for some readers. If you or someone you ... Read more
Local News
Athens State students hosting suicide prevention walk
A group of students at Athens State University is putting together an event to help raise funds and ... Read more
State And Nation
Gun waiting periods rare in US states but more may be coming
Not long before the deadly Atlanta-area shootings spread fear and anger through Asian American communities nationwide, police say ... Read more
Local News
SUICIDE PREVENTION WALK: Man on cross-country trip comes through Athens
It has been a long and winding road that led Clinton Baker to Limestone County this week, both ... Read more
Local News
Athens train death may have been suicide
Athens police believe the death of a pedestrian this morning may have been suicide. Wesley Ford Tribble, 34, ... Read more
State And Nation
New York City subway scare suspect taken into police custody
NEW YORK (AP) — A man suspected of placing two devices that looked like pressure cookers in a ... Read more
State And Nation
DEVELOPING: Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide in jail
NEW YORK (AP) — A former law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that Jeffrey Epstein has died ... Read more