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Hueytown drug ring investigation included arrests of 2 men since killed in Birmingham shootings
HUEYTOWN, Alabama -- Two Birmingham homicide victims, including a man shot to death Tuesday in Ensley, were arrested during a nearly two-year Hueytown Police Department investigation into ...
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SEC Baseball Tournament Texas AM uses 3 homers to upset top-seeded Vanderbilt
SEC Digital Network HOOVER, Ala. -- Ninth-seeded Texas A&M launched three home runs Wednesday to knock off top-seeded Vanderbilt, 5-0, in the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The Aggies (32-25), who defeated eighth-seeded Florida on Tuesday evening, advance to face the winner between fourth-seeded South Carolina and fifth-seeded Mississippi State ...
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Alabama womens golf 12 shots back of Southern Cal at NCAA Championships
Alabama's Stephanie Meadow has the 36-hole individual lead in the clubhouse with an 8-under-par 136 after a 5-under 67 on Wednesday. (Alabama Athletics ...
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TechBits high tech hunting rifle
The rifle from Trackingpoint can essentially put a hunt on 'cruise control'. It uses a ballistics computer to calculate factors such as distance, wind, and how steady the rifle is being held. All a hunter has to do is identify the target, then wait for the computer to take the ...
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Possible cuts for National Weather Service meteorologists
Big cuts could hit agencies that issue storm warnings. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration -or NOAA- has proposed furloughs for it's employees. Sequestration and budget cuts are to ...
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Movie Review
Tarzan and the Lost City
"Tarzan and the Lost City" is one of the most anemic movies to come out in quite a while. Not only it is poorly written, badly acted, and generally incompetent in all cinematic areas, it is thoroughly uninspired and insipid. Unfortunately, it's not bad in the way great, colossal misfires like "Heaven's Gate" (1980) or "Ishtar" (1987) are bad. Instead, it literally drips off the screen like a movi ... ...
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Construction worker killed in accidental electrocution in Birmingham
A construction worker died Wednesday after being accidentally electrocuted in Birmingham. The victim, a Star Construction employee, was killed while working in an alley near the 3700 block of 6th Avenue South at around 11:30 a.m. Birmingham police and fire responded to the scene and a crew from Alabama Power arrived a short time later. The man's identity is being withheld until all family ...
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Ala. man sentenced on child pornography charges
BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) -- A man who says he looked at child pornography online in search of justice for his wife has been sentenced to 30 years in ...
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ALA woman charged with fabricating story of attack
PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. (AP) -- Police say a woman accused of fabricated a story about being attacked to get her ex-boyfriend's attention has been charged with filing a false police ...
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Oklahoma tornado Birmingham Community Foundation points to sister organization in OKC to address long-term unmet needs
BIRMINGHAM , Alabama - On April 8, 1998, an F5 tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa County and traveled east, ripping a path three-quarters of a mile wide through parts of Birmingham and its western suburbs, killing ...
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Prattville woman indicted on home mortgage fraud theft charges
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Attorney General Luther Strange announced the arrest of a Prattville woman for four counts of residential mortgage fraud, two counts of first-degree theft and two counts of first-degree theft by deception. Lynda Branch, 59, formerly operated Professional Closing and Title LLC and was doing business in Prattville as Pro Close. Branch was arrested by the Autauga County ...
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- Hueytown drug ring investigation included arrests of 2 men since killed in Birmingham shootings
- SEC Baseball Tournament Texas AM uses 3 homers to upset top-seeded Vanderbilt
- Alabama womens golf 12 shots back of Southern Cal at NCAA Championships
- TechBits high tech hunting rifle
- Possible cuts for National Weather Service meteorologists