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Huntsville opening 2 entertainment districts

Promoters are planning a Thursday launch for the new areas, where restaurant and bar patrons will be able to purchase alcohol to-go and then stroll the streets at night.The goal is to have area that includes street performers, outdoor movies, art demonstrations and more.City officials say they'll review operations and make possible adjustments to the areas' boundaries and rules after ...
Alabama 19th in federal revenue for state spending

The study by the Tax Foundation says federal funding accounts for 38.2 percent of the state government's revenue in Alabama. Mississippi ranked first at 49 percent and Alaska was 50th at 24 percent.Tennessee was at 44 percent, Georgia measured 41.1 percent, and Florida came in at 36.9 percent.The study looked only at a state's tax revenue and did not consider a state's income from ...
Missing Child Alert Infant 14-year-old abductor remain missing

The Alabama Department of Public Safety has issued a Missing Child Media Alert after a 2-month-old baby was allegedly taken by a 14-year-old girl early Monday morning from ...
Greenwood set to host Mississippi-Alabama tourism conference

GREENWOOD, MISS. — Greenwood will host the 2014 Mississippi-Alabama Rural Tourism Conference. The conference focuses on assisting smaller communities in bolstering tourism. The 2014 conference is scheduled for Oct. ...
Miss. woman pleads not guilty in Alabama womans injection death

Tracey Lynn Garner pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing an Alabama woman by giving silicone injections as a buttocks enhancement. / Rogelio V. Solis/AP ...

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Claire's Knee (Le Genou de Claire) [DVD]

Surely a man getting married in a month is level-headed, says the woman in Claires Knee (Le Genou de Claire) who is about to entrust her 16-year-old daughter to said level-headed man for a long afternoon hike even though the daughter has made it clear that she is in love w ... ...

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Town will reconsider pit bull ban mayor says

CLAY — The mayor of an Alabama town says that city officials will reconsider a ban on pit bulls after dozens of pet owners and animal advocates showed up at a city council meeting to protest the decision. The Clay City Council had approved the pit bull ban two weeks ago, but animal advocates say the public should have been given more warning about the new ordinance. They also contend that ...
Carnival sues Alabama firm that was repairing Triumph

MOBILE — The Carnival Corp. filed a lawsuit last week seeking more than $12 million in damage that its cruise ship, Triumph, sustained in an early April windstorm. AL.com reported that in the lawsuit, Carnival argues that mooring equipment being used by BAE Systems was defective. The ship broke free of its mooring during a storm that packed winds of more than 60 mph. A dock worker drowned ...
Authorities on lookout for infant boy teen

BIRMINGHAM — Authorities in Alabama were looking for a missing infant and a teenage girl who may be linked to the ...
State school board member Mary Scott Hunter considers run for governor

Alabama Board of Education member Mary Scott Hunter of Huntsville is considering entering the Republican race for governor and plans to decide by the end of summer. / ...
Woman convicted of Pitino extortion in new prison

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Kentucky woman convicted of trying to extort millions in cash, cars and a house from University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino has a new federal home.The Federal Bureau of Prisons moved 53-year-old Karen Sypher to Federal Correctional Institute-Aliceville, about 55 miles southwest of Tuscaloosa, Ala. Sypher had been in a federal prison in Marianna, ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Apple unveils new operating system, refreshed MacBook Airs

Apple Inc. has unveiled an operating system for its iPhones and iPads that will radically overhaul how users' touchscreens look, a top company official said.

Besides the new system, iOS 7, also unveiled was a refreshed MacBook Airs. The company announced an iTunes Radio streaming-music service and a sneak peek at a new Mac Pro that would be the most powerful computer Apple has ever made.

Unveiling Apple's first major product event in nine months in California Monday, chief executive Tim Cook called it "the biggest change to iOS since the introduction of the iPhone".

Developers assembled for the week-long conference got the first look at a major reworking of Apple's mobile operating system, due in September, CNN reported.

iOS is home to more than 900,000 apps that collectively have earned independent developers $10 billion, according to Apple.

The mobile design, overseen for the first time by new iOS boss Jony Ive, includes new typography, redesigned icons and a new colour palette. The pool-table green background on Game Centre is gone.

Siri, Apple's voice-activated "digital assistant", has become more diverse. Users will be able to choose a male voice -- Siri has been solely a "she" so far -- and can ask it to perform basic tasks like playing a voicemail or turning down the brightness on an iPhone or iPad's screen. ...