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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 ...

  • Alabama will practice traffic reversal for hurricane evacuations

    Motorist traveling along Interstate 65 between Baldwin County and Montgomery on Wednesday afternoon will see plenty of state troopers, National Guard personnel and state Transportation Department workers. Transportation officials say they will be conducting their annual exercise to simulate reversing traffic on I-65 so that all four lanes are headed north to allow evacuation from the ...

  • Alabama Democrats fail in expanding Medicaid

    When the session began in February, Democratic legislators said their No. 1 goal was expanding Alabama's Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act. But they conceded on the session's last day Monday that their goal had failed. A bill to expand the program drew opposition from Gov. Robert Bentley and never went ...

  • Birmingham police probe shooting outside nightclub

    http://bit.ly/14jMAjQ ) that one person was shot Sunday morning near CC Nightclub on Bessemer Road. The victim's condition was not immediately known. There were several gun shells on the ground near the shooting. Birmingham police said they were questioning a man, but investigators were not sure of his involvement. Few other details were available early Monday. Information from: ...

  • Tornadoes possible for central U.S. Monday

    Oklahoma - Forecasters say more severe weather could hit the nation's midsection today. Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. One resident says his mobile home park "took a dead hit." Another 21 were injured throughout the ...


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Movie Review

Holes

Holes

Holes is definitely not your typical Disney family movie. Set in a work camp for convicted juveniles in the middle of a dry lakebed in the desolation of deep West Texas, it is visually striking, with the harsh images on screen matched by a surprisingly genuine depiction of troubled youth. Granted, in the end all the juvenile delinquents turn out to be generally good kids at heart, but the ... ...

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  • JeffCo moves closer to bankruptcy exit with agreement

    Jefferson County has moved a step closer to exiting bankruptcy after negotiating an agreement with J.P. Morgan and Bayerische Landesbank over $105 million in debt. The $105 million is not tied to the bankrupt county's sewer system, which is responsible for about three-fourths of the $4.3 billion debt and the primary reason for Jefferson County's bankruptcy filing. It is one of several ...

  • New medical school in Dothan nears completion

    http://bit.ly/10eACnY ) that three 24-unit apartment buildings are also being constructed on the east Dothan campus of the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. Officials say almost all of the units have already been reserved and should be available for move-in before ...

  • Dothan museum hosts exhibit of World War II images

    The exhibit, "Memories of World War II Photographs from the Archives of The Associated Press," will be on display at the Wiregrass Museum in Dothan now through July ...

  • Duck Dynasty stars to appear at Auburn event

    http://bit.ly/11QbYRb ) that Silas "Uncle Si" Robertson and Alan Robertson, both from the A&E cable show, are among celebrities set to appear at the Aug. 24 event at Auburn ...

  • Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest 1 dead in Okla. violent weather expected today

    SHAWNEE, Okla. -- 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 little left of the community she called ...

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