Sarah Verser
Anchor
Birmingham, Ala.
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Sarah Verser anchors The Four, the 5:00-5:30 and 6 On Your Side each weekday.
Formerly, she anchored The Four for 4 1/2 years, and she was part of the Good Day Alabama team for 16 years greeting you every morning.
In addition, Sarah is an award winning education reporter. Her segments, What's Right With Our Schools and At Your School, have earned her honors including the Alabama Broadcasters Association's Best in Broadcasting and the Associated Press' Best Specialized Reporter Awards.
Other honors include awards from the Birmingham Association of Black Journalists, the Birmingham City Council, The Literacy Council of Alabama and the State Board of Education. She was also awarded a distinguished spot on the Alabama Association of School Boards' Statewide Education Media Honor Roll and the Bill Miller Friend of Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education from the Alabama Association of Elementary School Administrators.
What's Right With Our Schools highlights the numerous accomplishments of students and teachers that seldom get the spotlight otherwise.
Sarah is among the Hurricane Class of graduates of Leadership Birmingham. You’ll find Sarah on stage assisting in the Birmingham Komen Race for the Cure. She's also a children's book author.
She began her career reporting for WKBW-TV, Channel 7 Eyewitness News in Buffalo, New York. While there, she also reported for the weekly Public Affairs show "Buffalo Beat."
She came south and found not just a great career, but an outstanding church home and married the love of her life. She now enjoys a new adventure as a wife and mother.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 4:33 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
Kikstart gives food away to those in need as well as running a discount store.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 2:41 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
The program started last year when a teacher came up with the idea to motivate her young students to love books and to read.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
There is still time to apply for those college scholarships.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 1:09 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
They say no matter what you are going through, you can triumph over your circumstances. Their lives intersect through the Youth Leadership Development Program, which mentors juniors and seniors in high school to become leaders in character.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 4:03 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
If you have ever said to yourself my vote doesn’t matter, Dejuana Thompson wants to talk to you about voter engagement.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2022 at 2:03 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
It’s the period in between the nine weeks of school. Instead of being off, students come to school for enrichment, or intensive instruction in the subjects where they need help.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 2:52 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
High school seniors can apply free of charge to a list of colleges in and outside of the state of Alabama during Free Application Week Oct. 17-22.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 4:49 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sarah Verser talks with Dr. Monika Tataria of Camellia Women’s Imaging about the importance of not delaying to get a mammogram.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 3:47 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
The principal of Glen Iris Elementary School is encouraging all of the teachers to get students outside and into the garden for a bit of cross-pollination of learning.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 3:57 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
The Birmingham VA Health Care System will host a job fair Saturday, September 24, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Birmingham VA East Clinic, located at 7901 Crestwood Blvd., Irondale, AL 35210.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2022 at 6:25 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
SROs, teachers, hiring and test scores were some of the topics discussed during our Back to School with WBRC Town Hall.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 12:24 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Teachers are heading back for work for Birmingham City Schools including Josh Hughes, formerly a WBRC FOX6 News editor, who will be a new social studies teacher at Woodlawn High School.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 2:39 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
This will be only the second time The World Games will be underway on American soil since its inception.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 7:19 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Compassion in action for the homeless coming from two young brothers and their mom in Birmingham.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 2:08 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
All programs are free.
Updated: May. 23, 2022 at 2:19 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Now to the great news for the Adams - Trey soared through graduation with $1.6 million dollars in scholarship offers from 17 different colleges and universities.
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 4:14 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
I am the last person to really encourage a conversation about snakes, but with the warmer weather it became very obvious I need to know more about staying safe when it comes to these reptiles.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 10:49 AM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Mayor Tony Picklesimer says folks living in Dunnavant Valley and Mount Laurel will drive right passed it, as well as folks heading to and from work in Birmingham.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 2:34 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
For 40 years, Childcare Resources, a Birmingham based nonprofit organization, has been providing financial help for low income working families to have access to quality childcare.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 3:39 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Students come each day to RC3 from their base high schools to get immersed in a career experience. He can take what he learns at RC3 and get college credit.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2022 at 3:14 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser and WBRC Staff
The Birmingham City School Board just approved a pay raise for substitute teachers.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2022 at 1:44 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
Realize your calling. Create your career. Those words are prominently displayed on the outside of the Riverchase Career Connection Center, or RC3.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2022 at 4:33 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
HBCUs flourished as incubators, raising up leaders immersed in African American culture and academic excellence.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022 at 1:54 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
The surgery lab at Chelsea is the first in the state.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 at 9:37 AM CST
|By Sarah Verser
The Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School is now open for enrollment to students, as it prepares to open its doors in August. The school is also looking to hire teachers for it’s first year.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022 at 1:24 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
The widely successful early college program allows students to become dual enrolled taking high school and college courses through a partnership with UAB and Jefferson State Community College.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2021 at 4:53 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
The special connection between a little boy’s vision to end childhood cancer and a Shelby County middle school.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2021 at 1:11 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
Jacquelyn Rodgers says she began Greentop Gifts because she wanted her children to see images that looked like them during the holidays and beyond.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 at 4:27 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
She has sold a number of things over the years with the help of a popular vinyl printer and then a sewing machine.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2021 at 11:19 AM CST
|By Sarah Verser
Lt. Colonel Richard Peace is an F16 fighter jet pilot with the Alabama Air National Guard who is making sure the Tuskegee Airmen legacy stays alive.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 at 3:34 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
Leaders of Alabama’s first aviation high school can now officially move forward after signing the contract with the Alabama Public Charter School Commission.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2021 at 12:05 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
WBRC is hosting speakers who will take questions and discuss resources available to women and families.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2021 at 3:27 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
All of the principals credited very active parent participation and support from their school districts.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2021 at 4:26 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Organizers said the purpose of the weekend is to give women the opportunity to rebuild their lives through sisterhood.
Updated: Oct. 14, 2021 at 3:05 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
This year BCRFA is celebrating 25 years of fundraising totaling $11 million in breast cancer research that stays here in Alabama.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2021 at 4:39 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Dr. Rowe says some children are dealing with a lot including, “Anxiety and fear, among first graders all the way up to 12th grade.”
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 2:28 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Wednesday, four members of the USA gymnastics team - Simone Biles, Ally Raisman, McKayla Maroney, and Maggie Nichols, some of the most recognized elite athletes in the world, laid their hearts bare before senators on Capitol Hill to tell their truth about the abuse they endured from the person who was supposed to be a trusted adult in their lives, their team doctor.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 3:16 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
That means 100 percent of the students who graduated this year also started at the school and stayed in school. It’s the first time in the school’s history.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2021 at 3:25 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
The Courthouse will close for Alabama Power crews to replace a utility pole damaged in a recent vehicular accident.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2021 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
First and foremost, given the increase in COVID cases due to variant strains, the Jefferson County Department of Health strongly endorses vaccinations for people ages 12 and older.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2021 at 3:32 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
Four Dads and a mom from different parts of our viewing area asked thoughtful and poignant questions based on their own experiences.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2021 at 2:54 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
What started out as a great hands-on educational tool for Woodlawn High turned into a lifeline feeding the community.
Updated: May. 14, 2021 at 9:02 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
After more than 33 years in law enforcement, former Birmingham Police Chief AC Roper's military career is still going strong.
Updated: May. 6, 2021 at 2:23 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
The Walker County Sheriff’s Department confirmed deputies were investigating what happened after that baseball practice.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2021 at 12:59 PM CDT
|By Sarah Verser
State Representative Merika Coleman reflecting on the year since the first COVID-19 diagnosis in Alabama.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2021 at 5:37 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
“I just want everybody to remember him for being the kind, wonderful, gracious and generous spirit. He was so much more than Sgt. Parnell Guyton.”
Updated: Feb. 12, 2021 at 2:55 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
After the events of 2020, people are taking a second look at the YWCA which has eradicating racism at its foundation.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2020 at 2:36 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
“Dear Santa, my mommy hasn’t been so healthy lately and she doesn’t work anymore, but when she was she would give me everything good, but most of all her love is what I cherish the most.”
Updated: Dec. 3, 2020 at 3:58 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
Player decided this would be her Gold Award Project. She began researching the four girls who were killed, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Denise McNair.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2020 at 2:03 PM CST
|By Sarah Verser
While her mom was inside the Dollar General in Nauvoo, Brianna noticed a man who was motionless inside an older vehicle across the parking lot. Brianna was waiting with her younger brother inside their family’s car. Once her mom, April, returned, she immediately alerted her about the man.
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