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  • Alabama Blanks Jacksonville State in NCAA Regional

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Following a weather delay of more than two hours, the Alabama Crimson Tide beat the Jacksonville State Gamecocks 4-0, to close day one of the 2013 NCAA Softball Tuscaloosa Regional being held at Rhoads Stadium this week. The Tide picked up two runs each in the third and fifth innings. In the third, junior Ryan Iamurri and senior Kayla Braud crossed home plate on a Molly ...

  • Hoover Police Investigating Car Submerged in Lake

    HOOVER - AL - Update: Captain Coker, with Hoover Police, tells ABC 33/40 this is a one car accident. Woman inside was transported to UAB. The extent of her injuries is unknown. Weather may have played a roll in the accident. Hoover Police Dive team are searching the lake. Hoover Police and fire were called out to Star Lake off Highway 31 around 10 p.m. When authorities arrived they found a ...

  • Police bust suspected illegal gambling operating

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Police in Birmingham have shut down a recording studio and removed 33 machines they say were being used for illegal ...

  • Multi-use sports facility in the works for Tuscaloosa

    TUSCALOOSA, AL - Tuscaloosa is a step closer to getting a new multi-purpose facility that many say the town needs. Right now it's an open field with a couple of hay barrels. But the Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority or PARA has big plans for a multi-purpose, multi-use facility that could boost local revenue. PARA's Public Relations Manager Becky Booker said, "Our ...

  • Ala. Supreme Court reinstates $3.2 million verdict

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama Supreme Court has reinstated a $3.2 million malpractice verdict awarded to the estate of a Montgomery woman who died in 2005 after being treated at the Baptist East Emergency Room in ...


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Blue Crush

In the ideal surfer movie, the surfer hero's main quest in life is to find some transcendental spiritual high that can only be attained while riding the wavesthink Patrick Swayze's adrenaline-junkie shaman in Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break (1991). In Blue Crush, however, the surfer hero just want to score a sponsor. It foregoes the mythical for the practical. ...

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  • Possible tornado surprises Athens

    ATHENS, Ala. (AP) - An unconfirmed tornado has knocked down trees, flipped Dumpsters and damaged the roof of the nearby WalMart in Athens. A forecaster at the National Weather Service in Huntsville said the suspected tornado started about a mile south-southeast of Athens and moved in a line toward southwest Ardmore Friday. The unsettled weather system continued to concern forecasters as it ...

  • Flag mural dedicated in Jacksonville

    JACKSONVILLE - AL - In 2011, Ben Tomlinson's life changed forever. The Jacksonville native was shot while serving in Afghanistan. He was paralyzed from the waist down. Now, he's working hard to make a come back. And, his community has rallied behind him. A mural of the American flag, painted to honor Tomlinson's service and the service of other veterans was dedicated Friday ...

  • OSHA impersonator gets 57 months in oil spill scam

    spill NEW ORLEANS - A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that 47-year-old Connie Knight, formerly of Belle Chasse, had claimed to be an Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety instructor. She held classes in ...

  • Suspect makes bomb threat in attempt to steal drugs from Rite Aid in Roebuck

    The Birmingham Police Department needs help identifying a suspect who made a bomb threat while attempting to steal narcotics from a drug store Thursday. Sgt. Johnny Williams says a white male, wearing a doctor's mask, entered the Rite Aid located in the 9100 block of Roebuck Parkway East at around 5:20 p.m. and demanded drugs from the pharmacy. He threatened to detonate a bomb if the ...

  • Alabama Governor seeks to delay school tax credits in Act

    Monday will not be a day for the "faint of heart" at the Alabama State House. It's the final day of the legislative session. Governor Robert Bentley wants lawmakers to vote to delay the Alabama Accountability Act for two years. The Act allows parents to pull children out of failing schools, and use a tax credit to attend a better-performing public or private school. But ...

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