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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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 ...

  • City of Birmingham to collect items for Oklahoma relief

    Mayor William Bell says, "Our thoughts and prayers are with those involved in the tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma. Our people are the most generous in the nation and the City will be working with the Christian Service Mission to collect items to send out. So many people reached out to Birmingham during our tornado devastation and we want to be sure to pay that help forward to those who ...

  • Crime Stoppers May 21 Birmingham homicide investigation Jefferson County armed robbery

    BIRMINGHAM HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION: Crime Stoppers needs your help identifying a person of interest in a homicide investigation. The man, whose picture is posted to the right of this story, was seen with 22-year-old Jonathon Cole before he died. Cole was shot and killed Friday, April 5th at the Garden Inn and Suites on Crestwood Boulevard. "He's a person of interest at this ...

  • Mysterious illness kills 2 in southeast Alabama

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A mysterious respiratory illness has left five people hospitalized and two dead in southeast Alabama, state health officials said ...

  • Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma at least 24 killed

    A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary ...

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