A Memorial Day Ceremony honoring all veterans of all wars will be held in Colbert County at the Circle of Valor, 11am Monday.

The event is being sponsored by American Legion Post 31.

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What can be said about the brilliance of Reading Rainbow, the television show that kept kids interested in books since 1983. Now, on the thirtieth anniversary of the show's premiere on PBS, host LeVar Burton has made it his mission to continue providing the show's positive literacy impact through to the digital age.

A series of 25 classic Rainbow episodes is available for purchase on Amazon, with Prime subscription holders given free access. The episodes span the show's entire original run. My personal favorite of this list, if you're interested, is "The Life Cycle of the Honeybee," with the title book read by Get Smart's Barbara Feldon.

SHEFFIELD, AL (WAFF)- Helen
Keller Hospital in Sheffield is the first facility in the southeast to offer
molecular breast imaging using the GE Healthcare's Discovery NM 750b.

Molecular imaging is under the
umbrella of nuclear medicine, according to Radiology Technologist Cheryl
McGhee.

"Nuclear
medicine studies are designed so you're injected with a small amount of radio
isotope. It's designated to go to a certain, specific, target area in the body;
this is designed for the breast," she said.

She said the isotope pinpoints
and highlights the diseased tissue, and the new tool shows that diseased tissue
without using radiation. 

"The
only radiation is in the isotope that you're injected with. There is no
radiation involved with taking the images."  And she said that goes
away quickly. "Within six hours, your body's already broke it down and
expelled it out," said McGhee.