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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 ...

  • Annual Shroud Award given to Rep. Todd

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The annual light-hearted humorous jab known as the Shroud Award was presented in the Alabama House of Representatives Monday night. The award, replete with runners up and less honorable mentions, is given yearly to the state representative who proposed a law that had little, if any, chance of passage. The empty suit mounted in an open cardboard box accompanied by a ...

  • Governor Bentley offers support to everyone in Oklahoma

    Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was ...

  • American Cancer Society celebrates 100 years

    BIRMINGHAM– On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, the American Cancer Society will mark its milestone of 100 years of medical breakthroughs and saving lives. In fact, experts with the organization, credited as the largest volunteer health group in the U.S., say ACS is the reason for hundreds of birthdays. "The American Cancer Society has played a role in nearly every cancer research ...

  • Ala. House approves legislative consolidation bill

    The consolidation measure passed the House on a 72-26 vote Monday night. The bill returned to the Senate to sort out differences between House and Senate versions of the legislation with slightly more than two hours left in the legislative ...


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Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee has a gorgeous visual palette of splashy colors and a witty, just-this-side-of-naughty sense of dark humor that is one of the guiding hallmarks of memorable childrens entertainment. It doesnt talk down to kids, but rather to them, and it recognizes that lessons are b ... ...

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  • The Birmingham Bands You Need To Know

    Birmingham, Alabama's music scene is blowing up: Homegrown bands are playing major music fests such as Banditos at this weekend's Hangout Music Festival , while a new music venue, Iron City , is bringing bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel to the ...

  • Real estate investors sentenced in Ala. fraud case

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Two real estate investors have been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for bid rigging at public foreclosure auctions and mail fraud.Department of Justice officials said Monday that Jason Brannon, of Mobile, and his father, Robert Brannon, of Laurel, Miss., were each sentenced to 20 months in prison.Authorities say the two conspired with others to fraudulently purchase ...

  • Hospitals treat more than 120 after Okla. tornado

    OKLAHOMA CITY -; Officials at two hospitals say they're treating more than 120 patients, including about 70 children, after a massive tornado hit suburban Oklahoma ...

  • Alabama governor signs both state budgets

    The governor's press secretary, Jennifer Ardis, announced Monday night that Bentley had signed both of the Legislature's spending plans without changes on the last day of the 2013 legislative ...

  • Huge tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb kills 37

    A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary ...

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