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  • President Obama Awards Birmingham Church Bombing Victims

    President Obama gave the United States' most prestigious civilian honor to four slain African- American girls who lost their lives in a church bombing in ...

  • Ala. man guilty in Miss. slaying

    JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An Alabama man has been found guilty in the 2010 murder of an 81-year-old woman from Clinton, Miss. Forty-1-year-old James Cobb Hutto was convicted of capital murder by a jury that deliberated Saturday for around two hours. He could face the death penalty Ethel Simpson's body was found Sept. 17, 2010, near Edwards, Miss. She had died of blunt force trauma. Hutto, of ...

  • Police Wisconsin man free to continue scooter rides in thong and cape

    MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight. But police say he isn't breaking any laws. Earlier this month, staff at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Madison called authorities after the man rode by in his unmentionables while students were walking to a bus. Police spokesman Joel ...

  • Obama Nation must do more for fallen heroes

    In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country must care for the loved ones the fallen leave behind. He says the country must also make sure that all veterans receive the care and benefits they have ...

  • Tuscaloosa homes hit by tornado being demolished

    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Demolition has begun on some of the last buildings in Tuscaloosa slated to be torn down after being damaged by a massive tornado in April ...


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The Strangers

The Strangers

Bryan Bertinos feature film debut The Strangers is nothing if not absolutely ruthless in its intensity and single-minded in its purpose. With only a modicum of conventional narrative set-up, it goes about drilling a direct passage into your nervous system, hammering away with a ha ... ...

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  • Police Ala. man shot dead after traffic collision

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Police in Montgomery say they suspect car crash played a role in a fatal shooting that is the city's 26th homicide of the ...

  • Ohatchee man charged in 2009 Christmas slaying

    OHATCHEE, Ala. (AP) - Prosecutors have charged an Ohatchee man with capital murder in the 2009 slaying of a man whose body was found the day after Christmas. Al.com reports ...

  • Ala. man OK after train pushes his truck 500 feet

    GLENCOE, Ala. (AP) -- The police chief called it an "absolute miracle" after a northeast Alabama man walked away with minor injuries after a train smashed into his pickup truck and pushed it more than 500 feet along the ...

  • 3 Fantasy 5 players win $76438.04 top prize

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Three winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $76,438.04 each, the Florida Lottery said Saturday.The winning tickets were bought in Lutz, Dundee and Cape Coral, lottery officials reported.The 333 tickets matching four numbers won $111 each. Another 10,539 tickets matching three numbers won $9.50 each, and 102,651 tickets won a Quick Pick ticket for picking ...

  • No ticket wins Mega Money game next jackpot $1M

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- No tickets matched all four numbers plus the Mega Ball in the Mega Money game so the jackpot rolled over to $1 million, the Florida Lottery said Saturday.Four tickets won $1,646 for picking 4-of-4; 28 tickets won $515.50 each for picking 3-of-4 plus the Mega Ball number; 1,040 tickets won $41 each for picking 3-of-4; 1,291 tickets won $23 each for picking 2-of-4 plus the ...

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