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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 ...

  • California man wanted in Alabama arrested in Ariz.

    SAN LUIS, Ariz. -; Federal authorities say a California man wanted in an Alabama murder case has been arrested near the southern Arizona ...

  • Summary of action in Alabama Legislature

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A summary of action in the Alabama Legislature on Monday, the 30th and final meeting day of the regular session: HOUSE: Rejected the governor's proposal to delay Alabama's new private school tax credits for two years. Gave final approval to a major overhaul of Alabama's gun laws, including allowing workers to keep guns in their vehicles while at their ...

  • Home sales take a big leap in Tuscaloosa

    TUSCALOOSA - AL - The Alabama Center for Real Estate says residential home sales spiked significantly last month compared to April home sales in previous years. They were up 43 percent over last year, but 80 percent over 2011. The study is based on an April to April analysis. Since 2003, an average 200 homes per year have been sold. The Center for Real Estate says a total 236 home closings ...

  • Etowah County Sheriff warns pregnant women against using drugs

    Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin says just because a woman wants to put her own life at risk with drugs, doesn't give her the right to endanger her unborn child. Entrekin says this must end. Women are being prosecuted for actions that endanger their unborn children. Sheriff Entrekin says this problem is serious in Etowah County. Some fifty babies are born at Gads den Regional Medical ...


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Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol [Blu-Ray]

Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol [Blu-Ray]

Despite the unwieldy title, Mission: ImpossibleGhost Protocol, the fourth entry in the now 15-year-old franchise based on the cult 1960s television series, is an effectively enthralling back-to-basics action thriller. Moving away from J.J. Abramss ... ...

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  • Judge tosses ex-BP executives obstruction charge

    NEW ORLEANS -; A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in ...

  • Massive tornado roars through Oklahoma City suburb

    Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said ...

  • Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

    The godfather of a New York college student accidentally killed by a police bullet says the officer should have negotiated instead of firing as an armed intruder held the young woman ...

  • Tornado Hits 2 Schools Flattens Neighborhood in Moore

    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 ...

  • Legislature approves bond issue for storm-damaged schools

    The bill provides $15 million for Mobile's Murphy High School, which was damaged by a tornado on Christmas Day. There is also money for five other schools damaged by tornadoes on April 27, 2011. Three schools in the Tuscaloosa area will benefit, with $3 million for Alberta City Elementary and $2.5 million each for University Place Elementary and Holt Elementary. Phil Campbell High School ...

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