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  • Your Health 5-22-13 Americans health

    Birmingham, AL - Americans' overall health is not improving much. A new government report shows about six in 10 people are either overweight or obese and large numbers are engaging in unhealthy behaviors like smoking, heavy drinking or not exercising. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only one in five adults met federal guidelines for both aerobic activity and ...

  • BSA voting on change to openly gay Scouts policy

    Grapevine, TX - Boy Scouts of America leaders are meeting in Texas to vote on whether or not to change the long standing ban on openly gay Boy Scouts. The two day meeting of 1,400 local Boys Scout leaders begins Wednesday and will conclude Thursday with the vote. Scouting officials have proposed allowing openly gay Scouts while keeping the ban on gay adult Scout leaders. The first of ...

  • UA’s Creative Writing Camp Lets Teens Express Themselves

    Teens TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --The University of Alabama invites local high school students -- rising freshmen through graduating seniors -- to participate in the summer 2013 Creative Writing Camp. The campwill meet from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday from Monday, June 3, to Friday, June 14, in 301 Morgan Hall on the UA campus. No previous creative writingexperience is required. The instructors will ...

  • Birmingham man found shot to death

    Officers responded to a call around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday of a man in the street who had been shot. They found 27-year-old Lederious Peoples of Birmingham with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to UAB Hospital, where he died a short time ...

  • 4 teens shot at high school graduation party

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities say four teenagers were shot at a high school graduation party in Huntsville, and authorities were searching for the gunman early Wednesday ...


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Movie Review

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) [DVD]

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) [DVD]

Ever since its publication in 1959, many thought Gnter Grasss fantastical novel The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) was unfilmable. The story of a three-year-old boy who spites the idiocies of the world around him by refusing to grow up, making him into a sort of political Peter Pan ... ...

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  • Class ring missing for decades returned

    Lola Fossett of Florence holds a photograph of her late husband, Rick, and his high school class ring that recently was returned to her by a Florida couple who found it in 1977. / ...

  • Alabama court system facing layoffs chief justice says

    'In the Constitution of Alabama, we are the only branch that is guaranteed reasonable and adequate funding, and we are not getting it,' Chief Justice Roy Moore said Tuesday. / AMANDA SOWARDS/ADVERTISER ...

  • Indian guest workers sue Alabama-based company

    GULFPORT, MISS. — Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina. Three federal lawsuits backed by the Southern Poverty Law Center were filed Tuesday in Mississippi and Texas on behalf of ...

  • W.Va.s local-food movement a model for Appalachia

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with food entrepreneurs are seeding a new kind of economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states.Officials with the Appalachian Regional Commission, the U.S. Department of ...

  • Animal protection groups praise Alabama bill

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Animal protection groups are urging Alabama's governor to sign legislation toughening the penalties for animal cruelty. The Legislature passed a bill on the last night of its session to increase the penalty for animal cruelty from a maximum of 6 months in jail to a maximum of 1 year. The bill also adds a definition for torture that can cause the punishment to ...

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