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  • Lawsuit filed against owner of L.R. Hall Auditorium in fatal 2011...

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A lawsuit filed last week alleges that the owner of a downtown Birmingham event center where an East Lake man was fatally stabbed in 2011 was negligent in hiring security ...

  • Alabama to get searchable campaign contribution system

    Alabama voters will soon be able to learn about candidates' contributions and expenditures without scrolling through page after page of campaign finance reports on their ...

  • Police identify men fatally stabbed at Ala. church

    Authorities say 76-year-old Anthony Jackson and his 69-year-old brother, Terry, were stabbed at the West Huntsville United Methodist Church Tuesday morning. Officials say the men volunteered at the church and were likely cleaning the building before the food pantry opened for the ...

  • Alabamas tuition plan starting reduced payments

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A financial expert says the outlook for Alabama's prepaid college tuition plan has turned around since the state's highest court ruled the program can pay tuition at fall 2010 rates rather than current ...

  • SEC Baseball Tournament Arkansas downs Ole Miss 2-1 in 10 innings

    HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - Brian Anderson scored on a wild pitch in the 10th inning to give Arkansas a 2-1 victory over Mississippi in the second round of the Southeastern Conference tournament on Wednesday. Anderson started the Razorbacks' 10th inning rally with a one-out, ground-rule double. Dominic Ficociello followed with a single that moved Anderson to third and then Tyler Spoon was ...


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The Night of the Hunter [Blu-Ray]

The Night of the Hunter [Blu-Ray]

Like most films that experiment with conventions, push boundaries, and muddy otherwise comfortable demarcations of tone, style, and genre, Charles Laughtons The Night of the Hunter was not particularly well received when it was first released in 1955. Neither audi ... ...

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  • 53-year-old Akron man charged with killing his estranged wife shooting boyfriend

    HALE COUNTY - AL - The Hale County's Sheriff's Office has arrested an Akron man accused of shooting a man then killing his wife. District Attorney Michael Jackson tells ABC 33/40 that 53-year-old Charles Miles allegedly shot and killed his wife, Denise Miles, and her supposed boyfriend, Cliff Davis, Tuesday afternoon. Jackson says the couple has been separated before the shootings. ...

  • Ala. school board votes to lease laptops

    Laptops had already been loaned out to 950 students before the board voted to lease additional ones. Burrage says the district will loan laptops to 1,250 high school students and about 700 middle school students. Administrators will meet with students this fall to discuss proper use and care of the ...

  • CDC chases cause of mystery illness in SE Ala.

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Doctors throughout Alabama have gotten notices from the State Department of Health about the unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two and hospitalized five ...

  • The Boost Alabama mans world-record fish back from the taxidermist and much more

    Gemini Beware wishful thinking because it will cloud your thoughts and lead to confusion. However, that's much easier said than done, because today you're showing distinct tendencies towards living in a rosy world of your own and ignoring any hard facts that are under your nose. Take care that you don't allow someone to dupe you simply because you aren't paying attention to ...

  • One block How neighbors saw twisters deadly path

    A brick mailbox lies flattened in front of what used to be Dan and Rebecca Garland's home in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Nearly a dozen neighbors and relatives took refuge in the family's storm shelter during Monday's deadly EF5 tornado. (AP Photo/Allen ...

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