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  • Crime Stoppers May 25 Robberyhome invasion turns into homicide investigation

    It was earlier this month when 33-year-old Warren Gunn was killed. Detectives believe he was the victim of a robbery/home invasion, and Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper is turning to you for help. "I'm Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper. This homicide appears to be the result of a robbery/home invasion. Warren Gunn was at his house when he was killed. He was 33 years old. It was ...

  • 1 man assaulted another stabbed in fight at Tuscaloosa Co. campground

    The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office is investigating an assault and stabbing that happened at a campground early Saturday morning. According to a news release, deputies and medical personnel were called to the Blue Creek campground at around 1 a.m. on a report of an assault. Upon arriving, responders found a 29-year-old man with injuries sustained in an altercation. A short time later, ...

  • Alabama softball ends season with loss to Tennessee in Super Regionals

    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Alabama softball team saw its season come to an end as it fell in game two of the Knoxville Super Regional to Tennessee, 5-3, Saturday evening at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium. The Crimson Tide finishes its season with a 45-15 record while the Lady Vols advance to the Women's College World Series with a 49-10 mark. Alabama raced out to an early 3-0 lead but Tennessee ...

  • SEC Baseball Tournament Vanderbilt slugs its way past Miss. State 16-8

    BY Sean Cartell, SEC Digital NetworkHOOVER, Ala. -- Second-seeded LSU used five pitchers to toss just the third one-hitter in Southeastern Conference Tournament history Saturday, leading the Tigers ...

  • SEC Baseball Tournament LSU ousts Arkansas 3-1 to advance to championship game

    BY Sean Cartell, SEC Digital NetworkThe Vanderbilt baseball team celebrates during its 16-8 win over Mississippi State Saturday in the semifinals of the SEC Baseball Tournament. (SEC Network ...


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The Strangers

The Strangers

Bryan Bertinos feature film debut The Strangers is nothing if not absolutely ruthless in its intensity and single-minded in its purpose. With only a modicum of conventional narrative set-up, it goes about drilling a direct passage into your nervous system, hammering away with a ha ... ...

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  • UAB softball drops series opener to Florida in Super Regional

    GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- No. 2-ranked Florida scored two runs in its last at bat Saturday to rally past UAB, 4-3, in the first game of the NCAA Softball Super Regional at Pressly Stadium. Katie Medina's single scored Kelsey Horton with the winning run as the Gators (56-7) survived the hard-fought contest. Florida scored its two runs in the final inning on only one hit but was aided by ...

  • President Obama Awards Birmingham Church Bombing Victims

    President Obama gave the United States' most prestigious civilian honor to four slain African- American girls who lost their lives in a church bombing in ...

  • Ala. man guilty in Miss. slaying

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An Alabama man has been found guilty in the 2010 murder of an 81-year-old woman from Clinton, Miss. Forty-1-year-old James Cobb Hutto was convicted of capital murder by a jury that deliberated Saturday for around two hours. He could face the death penalty Ethel Simpson's body was found Sept. 17, 2010, near Edwards, Miss. She had died of blunt force trauma. Hutto, of ...

  • Police Wisconsin man free to continue scooter rides in thong and cape

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight. But police say he isn't breaking any laws. Earlier this month, staff at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Madison called authorities after the man rode by in his unmentionables while students were walking to a bus. Police spokesman Joel ...

  • Obama Nation must do more for fallen heroes

    In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country must care for the loved ones the fallen leave behind. He says the country must also make sure that all veterans receive the care and benefits they have ...

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