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March is Women's History Month!

Oxford Pharmaceuticals Coming to Alabama

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has announced a pharmaceutical company will build a manufacturing facility in Birmingham.  Bentley said Tuesday that Oxford Pharmaceuticals LLC is expected to open in 2016.  The company manufactures generic drugs.  The company is expected to employ 200 people when it is fully operational.  The governor made the announcement at the Birmingham Business Alliance's annual governor's luncheon.  The group says that state and local governments have tentatively awarded $5 million in incentives for the project.  

National Hunger Week

The week before Thanksgiving has been dedicated as National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.  Several local organizations are having coinciding events, including Family Promise of Montgomery.  Libby Fitzpatrick, an AmeriCorps VISTA member volunteering with the group says getting families back on their feet is the goal.  Other groups include, Vision of Grace Transition Home and the Mid-Alabama Coalition for Homeless.

Fatal Crash

A Ramer man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday morning.  State Troopers say 74-year-old John Wesley Townsend died when the car he was driving ran off the road and crashed into a fence.  It happened around 10:15 a.m. on Montgomery County Road 85 approximately two miles south of Pike Road.  No word on what might have caused the accident.