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  • UPDATE Lock down lifted on Birmingham school

    BIRMINGHAM - AL - Norwood Elementary School is no longer on lock down following a nearby shooting. But police are continuing to search for evidence. Police were called to the 3200 block of 17th Avenue North across the street from the school around 2 p.m.. A spokesperson says a man was sitting on his porch when the suspect came up and started firing. The victim was shot several times and ...

  • 29-year-old cystic fibrosis patient gets life-saving lung transplant thanks to $80 plastic helmet

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Medical professionals at the University of Alabama at Birmingham took a new technology, added some ingenuity, inventiveness and a plastic helmet, and enabled a 29-year-old cystic fibrosis patient to get a life-saving lung transplant. After waiting for a transplant for 11 months, Brandon Rylant's lungs were failing. As 2012 wound to a close, Brandon could no ...

  • SEC Baseball Tournament Arkansas downs Ole Miss 2-1 in 10 innings

    HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - Brian Anderson scored on a wild pitch in the 10th inning to give Arkansas a 2-1 victory over Mississippi in the second round of the Southeastern Conference tournament on Wednesday. Anderson started the Razorbacks' 10th inning rally with a one-out, ground-rule double. Dominic Ficociello followed with a single that moved Anderson to third and then Tyler Spoon was ...

  • UA in the News May 22 2013

    University of Alabama students help restore historic landmark in Marion CBS 8 (Montgomery) - May 21 Students from the University of Alabama are helping to restore a historic landmark in Perry County. The students are renovating a portion of one of the buildings at the Lincoln Normal School in Marion. Lincoln was one of the first institutions established to educate African Americans after the ...

  • Ala. school board votes to lease laptops

    Laptops had already been loaned out to 950 students before the board voted to lease additional ones. Burrage says the district will loan laptops to 1,250 high school students and about 700 middle school students. Administrators will meet with students this fall to discuss proper use and care of the ...


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Movie Review

Boiler Room [DVD]

Boiler Room [DVD]

Ben Younger's "Boiler Room" is about a small-time crook who tries to go legit, but ends up unwittingly becoming a big-time crook. It's a capitalistic cautionary tale about the dangers of the new American Dream in the era of "Who Wants to Be A Millionare" and Internet stocks going through the roof overnight: trying to get too rich too quick. ...

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  • CDC chases cause of mystery illness in SE Ala.

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Doctors throughout Alabama have gotten notices from the State Department of Health about the unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two and hospitalized five ...

  • 71 year old Sex Offender arrested on Outstanding Rape Warrant

    Wednesday morning shortly after 7:00 the Sheriff's Sex Offender Unit and Special Investigations Units executed a search warrant at a home in the 1700 block of Pleasant Grove Road. They discovered evidence of violation of the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act. 71 year old Franklin Deleanoir McGhee was found in the home and was taken into custody without incident. McGhee was ...

  • Alabama voters to get more info on campaign money

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama voters will soon be able to learn about candidates' contributions and expenditures without scrolling through page after page of campaign finance reports on their ...

  • Consumer warning on security products and services

    Tis the season. During the summer months consumers need to be aware of unscrupulous solicitations and pressure tactics used to try to frighten an individual into buying or upgrading security products and services that may not be needed. Wednesday morning, Attorney General Luther Strange joined with the Electronic Security Board of Licensure to warn consumers to be cautious. The Board has ...

  • Tim Tebow Coming To Alabama

    BIRMINGHAM - AL - The Gridiron Men's Conference is bringing thousands of men to Birmingham, including Tim Tebow. The conference will be held June 14-15 at Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center. The two-day event features messages from Tebow, best-selling author Josh McDowell, Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter, Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy and author and speaker Phil Waldrep. ...

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