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    HAZARDOUS WEATHER Flash flooding from storms reported in east Ala. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Forecasters say flash flooding across roads is being reported in eastern Alabama and more could occur as showers and thunderstorms move into the central areas of the state. Al.com reports National Weather Service meteorologist Jessica Talley said Saturday flash floods were reported from Talladega to ...

  • Nick Saban headlines 2013 class of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame inductees

    According to Alabama Power, heavy and unexpected rains have tipped water levels at Logan Martin and Harris lakes over its normal summer pools and are affecting spillway operations. Lake Reports: ...

  • Deputies searching for 7-year-old autistic boy missing in Perdido Key

    Escambia County Sheriff's deputies are searching for a missing 7-year-old autistic boy who was last seen Friday afternoon on Perdido Key Drive in the vicinity of the Needle Rush condos. Owen Black was wearing a red and blue striped shirt and brown sweat pants. He has short blondish brown hair, brown eyes and is small -- 4'0, 45 pounds -- for his age. If you see this child or have any ...

  • Man attempting to elude police in Tuscaloosa dies in head-on collision

    One person is dead Saturday after a police chase ended with a head-on collision in Tuscaloosa. According to the Tuscaloosa Police Department, the male suspect fleeing from officers died in the two-vehicle accident near 15th Street and Stillman Avenue. The driver of the other vehicle was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries. Police have not said what lead to the pursuit of the suspect. ...

  • Sparkman softball wins 6A title undefeated Haleyville wins 2nd straight 4A championship

    The Haleyville softball team celebrates pitcher Holly Ward's fourth inning 2-run homer against American Christian Academy. ...


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The Prestige

The Prestige

Christopher Nolan's The Prestige has the unfortunate task of arriving as the second of this fall's turn-of-the-20th-century thrillers involving magicians. A few months ago, Neil Burger's The Illusionist gave us Edward Norton as a tortured Viennese spiritualist up to all kinds ... ...

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  • 50 years later Birminghams Class of 1963 celebrates the prom they never got to have

    Their original prom night canceled during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 graduating class of Birmingham's black high schools held a prom Friday night, May 17, 2013, at the Boutwell ...

  • Alabama softball edges WKU advances to NCAA Regional championship game

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- In a back-and-forth affair the Alabama softball team held off Western Kentucky, 7-6, Saturday afternoon in day two of the NCAA Softball Tuscaloosa Regional at Rhoads Stadium. With the win the Crimson Tide improves to 44-13 on the season and advances to championship Sunday. A sixth inning sac-fly off the bat of junior Molly Fichtner that scored freshman Andrea Hawkins ...

  • Ala. governor seeks votes on delaying tax credits

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Gov. Robert Bentley is spending the weekend trying to round up legislative support for his proposal to delay Alabama's new private school tax credits for two years. Bentley spoke Saturday at the Alabama League of Municipalities convention in Montgomery and urged several hundred city officials to contact their legislators before the Legislature's last meeting ...

  • Flooded roads and structures in St. Clair County

    An inmate is on the loose in Etowah County. The Sheriff's department says an inmate kitchen worker escaped the Etowah County Detention Center (ECDC) Friday morning. Justin Wade Hopkins, 30, escaped ...

  • Moss Point man found drowned after going overboard

    MOSS POINT, Miss. - The body of a drowned fisherman has been found in the Escatawpa River.The Jackson County Sheriff's Department says the body of Timothy Gordon Sr. of Moss Point was found about 12 p.m. Saturday, the Mississippi Press reports (http://bit.ly/113JZpA).Gordon and companion Curtis Coleman, a Grand Bay, Ala., resident were fishing on the Escatawpa River about 5 p.m. Friday when ...

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