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  • REV Birmingham shoots for $1M in capital campaign

    REV Birmingham was formed last year when Operation New Birmingham and Main Street Birmingham merged, and has already been a big player in the recent redevelopment projects in downtown Birmingham, like loft renovations and plans for light installations near Railroad ...

  • Outdoor athletes converge on Ala park for race

    PELHAM, Ala. (AP) - Hundreds of athletes are converging on Alabama's largest state park for a major competition this weekend. About 1,000 pro and amateur athletes will be at Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham beginning Saturday for the XTERRA Southeast Championship. The triathlon includes a one-mile swim, a 20-mile mountain bike ride and a 10k off-road run through woods just a few miles ...

  • News Minute Here is the latest Alabama news from The Associated Press

    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 Montgomery. Lauree Durden Ellison had visited the Baptist Medical Center-East emergency room, operated by the Health Care Authority for Baptist Health. She was initially released ...

  • ALDOT U.S. 280 highway project begins Sunday with incentives to...

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- The Alabama Department of Transportation's project to modify traffic flow along U.S. 280 in Jefferson and Shelby counties begins Sunday night -- weather ...

  • Rep. Terri Sewell to appear at four town hall meetings in Birmingham area next Friday

    Terri Sewell , D-Birmingham, will appear at a series of four "Congress in Your Community" town hall meetings in the Birmingham area next Friday, including three in the Western ...


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The Express

The Express

Clichd and formulaic though they may be, when uplifting sports movies are at their best--The Natural (1984) and Hoosiers (1986) immediately spring to mind--they transcend their obvious reliance on the basest of formulas with the alluring exhilaration of the human spirit at its ... ...

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