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  • Lifesaver helicopter called to scene of motorcycle accident in Gardendale

    A Lifesaver Helicopter was called to the scene of an accident involving a motorcycle and a vehicle in Gardendale Thursday. The accident happened just after 4 p.m. near the intersection of Mt. Olive Road and Harden Road. Gardendale police and deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office are investigating the accident. Information regarding injuries has yet to be released at this ...

  • Elementary school teacher among eight arrested in heroin and cocaine trafficking ring

    A Bessemer elementary school physical education teacher is among those accused of being involved with a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought approximately $5 million worth of heroin and cocaine to the Birmingham area in less than a year. Jonesboro Elementary School PE teacher Vernon McAdory was one of eight people arrested on conspiracy or drug distribution charges in a 42-count April 2013 ...

  • Veteran Marine Corps K9s join Jefferson County Sheriffs Office

    JEFFERSON COUNTY - AL - The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has expanded its force by two. Earlier this month, deputies traveled to South Carolina to pick up a veteran Marine Corp K9. Last year, the sheriff's office K9 unit learned several dogs that had been in service with the Marine Corps would be retired. This was due to the downsizing of the contract with the company that ...

  • Bonner resigns from Congress to take UA job

    In the letter, Bonner said he will resign from Congress, effective in August to become vice chancellor of government relations and economic development at the University of Alabama ...

  • 2 charged in slayings of 6 on Tenn.-Ala. border

    FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. -; Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug ...


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A Woman is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) [DVD]

A Woman is a Woman (Une femme est une femme) [DVD]

Jean-Luc Godard spend the decade of the 1950s writing influential film criticism for the French journal Cahiers du cinma, and when he launched his own filmmaking career in 1959, he dove in and never looked back. In just over a year, from 1959 to 1960, he had completed three ... ...

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  • Jo Bonner announces resignation from Congress

    MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, of Mobile, has announced his resignation from Congress to take a top job at the University of Alabama. Bonner, a congressman since 2003, is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and announced his resignation Thursday afternoon. A letter explaining Bonner's resignation was delivered to Alabama lawmakers' offices in ...

  • Popular radio host Paul Finebaum joining SEC Network ESPN in Charlotte N.C.

    Paul Finebaum, a longtime staple on the radio airwaves in Birmingham, is making a move to Charlotte, North Carolina to host a new show with the SEC Network and ESPN. The former award-winning columnist for the Birmingham Post-Herald and Mobile Press-Register hosted the widely-popular Paul Finebaum Show on WJOX 94.5 FM -- a Cumulus Media station -- since 2007, but his contract expired on January ...

  • Hot yoga becoming more popular

    Could you envision working out in a room as hot as an Alabama summer? Think you could take the heat? If so, test yourself. Try "hot yoga". A fitness workout that is growing. Lauren Fields has taught 'hot' Vinyasa yoga for three years. "People are raving about it, because they feel so good," says Fields. "Here in the southeast, in Birmingham, it has grown ...

  • UA In the News May 23 2013

    Alabama’s Mal Moore posthumously named Athletic Director of the Year by Sports Business Daily Al.com - May 22 Nearly two months after his death, Alabama’sMal Moorewas ...

  • Alabama Power warns customers of bill scam

    BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC)- Alabama Power is warning customers about a phone scam. Officials say someone is calling customers, telling them their power will be shut off at a certain time if they don't pay. The customers are told to go an buy a reloadable debit card and are given a deadline to pay. When the customer buys the card and calls back with the information, the card is quickly emptied. ...

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