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  • Yahoo to buy Tumblr in $1.1bn deal

    Yahoo Inc. has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as Monday. The deal was unanimously voted for by the board, tech blog AllThingsD reported, citing sources close to the matter. According to the BBC, the deal will be CEO Marissa Mayer's largest deal since taking Yahoo's command in July ...

  • Two women charged with chemically endangering a child in East Alabama

    GADSDEN-AL - Two Etowah County women have been arrested and charged with chemical endangerment of a child. Tiffanie Angelia Mitchell, 23, of Gadsden, was arrested on May 6 and is charged with one count of chemical endangerment of exposing a child to an environment in which controlled substances are produced or distributed. Breanna Latreace Wilson, 18, of Attalla, was arrested on the same ...

  • Kerry vows better embassy security

    washington - Secretary of State John Kerry is vowing that the Obama administration will spare no expense or effort to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas. Speaking to State Department trainees today, Kerry said he was fully committed to implementing and expanding on the recommendations of an independent review board that investigated the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in ...

  • Mississippi Power names Ed Holland as president

    The move comes after additional cost overruns were announced at the coal-fired power plant Mississippi Power is building in Kemper County. Mississippi Power's vice president of generation, Tommy Anderson, also recently left the ...

  • Alabama will practice traffic reversal for hurricane evacuations

    Motorist traveling along Interstate 65 between Baldwin County and Montgomery on Wednesday afternoon will see plenty of state troopers, National Guard personnel and state Transportation Department workers. Transportation officials say they will be conducting their annual exercise to simulate reversing traffic on I-65 so that all four lanes are headed north to allow evacuation from the ...


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Movie Review

Holes

Holes

Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually striking, with the harsh images on screen matched by a surprisingly genuine depiction of troubled youth. Granted, in the end all the juvenile delinquents turn out to be generally good kids at heart, but the ... ...

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  • Alabama Democrats fail in expanding Medicaid

    When the session began in February, Democratic legislators said their No. 1 goal was expanding Alabama's Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act. But they conceded on the session's last day Monday that their goal had failed. A bill to expand the program drew opposition from Gov. Robert Bentley and never went ...

  • Birminghams Best Places to Work for 2013

    Use this slideshow to meet this year's Best Places to Work. The Birmingham Business Journal has unveiled its Best Places to Work for 2013. This competition, which we have presented since 2006, recognizes the top workplaces in metro Birmingham based on the results of an employee survey conducted by Quantum Workplace. You can use the slideshow on the right to see a list of companies that have ...

  • Birmingham police probe shooting outside nightclub

    http://bit.ly/14jMAjQ ) that one person was shot Sunday morning near CC Nightclub on Bessemer Road. The victim's condition was not immediately known. There were several gun shells on the ground near the shooting. Birmingham police said they were questioning a man, but investigators were not sure of his involvement. Few other details were available early Monday. Information from: ...

  • Tornadoes possible for central U.S. Monday

    Oklahoma - Forecasters say more severe weather could hit the nation's midsection today. Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. One resident says his mobile home park "took a dead hit." Another 21 were injured throughout the ...

  • JeffCo moves closer to bankruptcy exit with agreement

    Jefferson County has moved a step closer to exiting bankruptcy after negotiating an agreement with J.P. Morgan and Bayerische Landesbank over $105 million in debt. The $105 million is not tied to the bankrupt county's sewer system, which is responsible for about three-fourths of the $4.3 billion debt and the primary reason for Jefferson County's bankruptcy filing. It is one of several ...

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