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  • Mystery illness strikes south Alabama

    In a statement, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Mary McIntyre says seven people have been admitted to hospitals with a fever, cough and shortness of breath. Two of the seven have died and McIntyre says the department and the Centers for Disease Control Respiratory Laboratory are analyzing lab tests from all ...

  • Community forum focuses on Cooper Green concerns

    People continue to raise concerns over the changes at Cooper Green. Some say the new Cooper Green Indigent Health Care system isn't working. Ronnie Williams, Public Health Network President says "The elected officials are saying everything is okay and we're going to make it better. The doctors, 2,200 of them are saying what you have is a failure." Cooper Green patient, ...

  • Ala. Baptist State Convention works to help with OK tornado recovery

    Residents in tornado-stricken Moore, OK, await news on missing love ones Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado devastated the city, killing at least 51. Rescuers worked all night, with particular ...

  • Roy Moore says courts must have more money

    Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says the court system needs more money or it will be forced to make more layoffs. Moore says he's grateful that the General Fund signed by the governor on Monday increases the court system's appropriation by $5.6 million to $108 million, but he says that is $8.5 million short of what's needed to maintain the current staff. Moore expects to lay off ...

  • Tuscaloosa Academys versatile Torrence Brown collecting offers SEC interest

    The versatile athlete plays running back, linebacker, defensive end, tight end and wide receiver for the Knights, but is being recruited as a tight end or linebacker in ...


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Movie Review

Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte) [Blu-Ray]

Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte) [Blu-Ray]

The third and final film in his Trilogy of Life, Pier Paolo Pasolinis Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte), which is adapted from some of the more erotic tales from the Arabic story collection One Thousand and One Nights, differs markedly from the p ... ...

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  • Alabama State to host Voting Rights Center

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The board of the Alabama Public Historical Sites and Parks Improvement Corporation has authorized $1.2 million in bond money for a landmark voting rights center in the capitol ...

  • AL schools built safer after 2007 tornado killed students

    CONCORD - AL - Over the last few years, deadly tornadoes reduced schools in Central Alabama to piles of bricks. Many of those districts are now rebuilding much stronger and safer schools. A state mandate came after a tornado killed students in Enterprise. It requires all Alabama schools built after 2010 to have a shelter. These buildings aren't just replacing ones destroyed by tornadoes. ...

  • Republicans and Democrats weigh in on 2013 legislative session

    State lawmakers don't expect to return to Montgomery until January, 2014. Long before then, the Alabama Accountability Act will be in place. The measure allows parents to take their children out of a failing school with a tax credit to move them into another public school or even a private school. Republican House and Senate members went against the governor's wishes to delay the act ...

  • Arrests made in Birmingham heroin trafficking ring

    BIRMINGHAM – Federal agents and Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies working with the U.S. Attorney's Office today arrested eight men and are searching for a ninth who are charged in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that brought about $5 million worth of heroin and cocaine into the Birmingham area in less than a year, according to an indictment unsealed following the ...

  • More than 70 confirmations die at sessions end

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - When the Legislature adjourned Monday just before midnight, more than 70 nominations to state boards died without a vote. The affected bodies range from university governing boards to the state environmental management board and the Real Estate Commission. Of the pending nominations, 56 were from Gov. Robert Bentley, while another 14 came from legislative leaders or ...

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