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  • Your Health 6-18-13 Adult smokers decline

    Birmingham, AL - There are less smokers these days. A new study indicates the number of American adults who smoke fell to 18 percent in 2011. The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey involved 35,000 adults. The smoking rate was 9 percent among people ages 65 and older but about 20 percent for younger adults. Men had a higher smoking rate than women. Experts say factors that ...

  • UA Culverhouse Professors Named Leading Editors

    College of Commerce & Business Administration TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --Drs. Alexander Ellinger and Glenn Richey, professors at The University of Alabama, have received the 2013 Leading Editor(s) Award acknowledging the high commitment they have shown to the journal they edit and recognizing their efforts to raise and maintain the journal's global reputation and standing. Ellinger and ...

  • Alabamas new tax credits limited to transfers

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's Department of Revenue says the state's new private school tax credits don't apply to students who are already in private schools, even though they are zoned for a failing public ...

  • Ala authorities on lookout for infant boy and teen

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama authorities are looking for a missing infant and a teen-aged girl who may be linked to his alleged abduction.The Department of Public Safety issued an alert Tuesday for 2-month-old De'Anthony Dejuan Kelly and 14-year-old Dor'Sayde Gathright.Officials say Gathright walked off with the child while he was being cared for by Gathright's mother, who is the ...

  • Missing Child Alert Issued For 10-Month-Old Birmingham Baby

    BIRMINGHAM - AL - The Alabama Department of Public Safety has issued a missing child alert for a 10-month-old baby. Investigators say De'Anthony Dejuan Kelly was taken by Dor'Sayde Gathright early Monday Morning. Gathright and another unknown female were seen with the child getting into a 2010 Silver Dodge Charger driven by an unknown black male. It is believed they are heading to ...


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Movie Review

Enemy of the State

Enemy of the State

"Enemy of the State," Tony Scott's new paranoid government conspiracy thriller, could have just as easily been titled "The Conversation II" if they'd simply purchased the rights from Francis Ford Coppola. This movie plays like a 90's updating of Coppola's 1974 classic that dealt with surveillance, the erosion of privacy, and the escalating paranoia that you can never completely be alone because so ... ...

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  • NSA director continuing defense of surveillance program

    Washington, D.C. - The head of the National Security Agency is telling Congress that the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots around the world. Army Gen. Keith Alexander tells the House Intelligence Committee that the two programs that were recently disclosed are critical in the terrorism fight. One program gathers U.S. phone records, and ...

  • Two UA Students to Meet 35 Nobel Laureates in Germany

    College of Arts & Sciences TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --The first week of July will see 35 Nobel Laureates congregate at Lake Constance in Germany to meet the next generation of leading scientists and researchers, including two University of Alabama chemistry students, at the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. More than 600 young researchers from nearly 80 countries will be part of this special ...

  • Tuscaloosa City Board of Education to Vote on New Visitor Policy

    Tuscaloosa is introducing a new policy for its schools. The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education will on whether school guests and volunteers should undergo a sex offender registry check. Some may even be subject to a full criminal background check before they can work with students. Assistant superintendent says it is up for debate because they want to be consistent with how many people ...

  • Governor Bentley to reinstate merit raises for state employees

    STATEWIDE - Many Alabama state employees are going to get their first raises in five years. Governor Robert Bentley says he plans to reinstate merit raises starting January 1st. State employees got their last merit raises and cost of living raises in 2008. There have been none since then because the recession affected state tax collections. Governor Bentley signed a letter saying state ...

  • Tuscaloosa Teachers Credit Union robbery suspect arrested

    TUSCALOOSA, AL - The man suspected to be responsible for a robbery at the Tuscaloosa Teachers Credit Union was arrested this morning. Keondrae Devon Long, 23, of Tuscaloosa, was taken into custody after Tuscaloosa Police received multiple tips identifying him. Tuscaloosa Police Department Criminal Investigators and Patrol Officers located Long and apprehended him on a warrant for second ...

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