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  • Seventh annual Magic City Brewfest returns to Birmingham at end of month

    food in one place to make for the perfect weekend event. And this year will be no different. What will be different is that the organizers of this event, just as they've always done, have found ways to improve the brewfest with a few new additions. Thanks to our ever changing craft beer landscape in Alabama, the beer list at this event will be loaded with breweries and beers that are ...

  • Tuscaloosa reaches out to Moore OK

    TUSCALOOSA - AL - While thinking about Oklahoma, some of Tuscaloosa's first responders took a walk across what was Fire Station #4. It was toppled by a tornado with them inside - two years ago. "All four of us huddled down under a single mattress," Firefighter Jeff Roberts uttered to other fire fighters. He says the all personally feel the City of Moore's pain. ...

  • Search nearly complete after Oklahoma tornado

    Justin Stehan salvages photographs from his tornado-ravaged home Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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Movie Review

Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama

Director Andy Tennant's last film was 1999's Anna and the King, the florid tale of a refined 19th-century British woman who finds herself in the ancient Oriental kingdom of Siam, which is moving slowly into modernity. His latest, the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama, has essentially the same narrative crux, but in this case it's a refined 21st-century New Yorker who finds herself ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Indian guest workers sue company in Miss. Texas

    GULFPORT, Miss. -; Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane ...

  • Alabama comes back to beat Auburn 6-3 in SEC Tournament

    Alabama used a 3-run rally in the eighth inning to push past Auburn for a 6-3 victory in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament on Tuesday. The Tide (33-24) trailed 3-1 after three innings, but scored a run in both the fourth and the sixth to tie the game. Chance Vincent hit a single to score Austen Smith for the go-ahead run in the eighth inning. Smith had three ...

  • Ala. man convicted on child sex charges

    GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) - The Etowah County District Attorney says a retired naval religious programs specialist has been convicted of sexually abusing a child. District Attorney Jimmie Harp said Tuesday that William Hammond, of Southside, was convicted last week after the Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction from February 2011. The victim told investigators she was hired to babysit ...

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