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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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. ...

  • How to help tornado victims in the Plains States

    You can help those affected by the deadly, severe weather that hit Oklahoma Monday. Over the weekend, Missouri, Iowa, Kasas and Illinois also experienced severe ...

  • Conflict arises over sentence for Ala. juveniles

    MONTGOMERY, Ala._ (AP) -- The sentence a juvenile who has been convicted of capital murder should receive is currently up in the air. That's because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling and failure of the Alabama Legislature to deal with the ...

  • 2 schools evacuated after Ala. train derailment

    BEAR CREEK, Ala. (AP) - Authorities in northwest Alabama say a train has derailed near the town of Bear Creek. Marion County emergency dispatcher Heather Burgett says no injuries were reported after the derailment Thursday afternoon. Officials say 12 cars came off the tracks and two schools were evacuated after the accident. Information on what the train was carrying and what caused the ...

  • Margaritaville Biloxi turns one

    BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - A year after thousands danced to the tunes of Jimmy Buffett at the May 22, 2012, opening of the Margaritaville Casino, crowds have thinned and management has changed. It was the first casino to open in South Mississippi since Hard Rock in 2007 in Biloxi. Now, Margaritaville is moving aggressively with major additions; the first of which is a hotel. Margaritaville CEO Doug ...

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