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  • Veterans honored at Ft. McClellan Cemetery

    The Anniston Army Depot is honoring America's veterans. There will be a ceremony starting at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 22 at the Ft. Mclellan Cemetery. There will be a wreath-laying and flag placing on the 200 graves there. Lt. Col. Robert Rouse will be the guest speaker. Rouse is the commander of d-DLA-a distribution in ...

  • Texas AM beats Florida 6-3

    Hunter Melton hit a three-run homer and had an RBI single to help Texas A&M defeat Florida 6-3 on Tuesday in the Aggies' first appearance in the SEC baseball tournament. A&M starter Daniel Mengden (8-3) overcame two balks and a wild pitch to go the distance, throwing 117 pitches. The Aggies (31-25) took a 3-2 lead in the fourth on Melton's two-out home run off Florida ...

  • Birmingham man found shot to death

    Officers responded to a call around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday of a man in the street who had been shot. They found 27-year-old Lederious Peoples of Birmingham with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to UAB Hospital, where he died a short time ...

  • 4 teens shot at high school graduation party

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities say four teenagers were shot at a high school graduation party in Huntsville, and authorities were searching for the gunman early Wednesday ...

  • UAB physics prof gets $480K grant to study metals used in electronics

    The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $480,000 to a University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher to investigate the behavior of rare earth metals under extreme conditions and temperatures. A UAB news release said the funding is going to Yogesh Vohra, a physics professor and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. The goal of the project is to predict how the earth metals, which ...


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Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken) [DVD]

Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken) [DVD]

When we first meet Yuuki Gennosuke (Mikijiro Hira), the hero of Hideo Goshas Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken), he appears to be a simple criminal on the lam, hiding out in the dirt of a grassy field while his pursuers track him down. Yet, as we soon learn via ... ...

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  • Pelham approves deal with Summer Classics for Moore-Handley property

    PELHAM, Alabama -- The vacant Moore-Handley property on Highway 31 in Pelham is becoming the new headquarters for outdoor furniture manufacturer Summer Classics as well as possibly other retail development under a deal approved tonight by the City ...

  • Class ring missing for decades returned

    Lola Fossett of Florence holds a photograph of her late husband, Rick, and his high school class ring that recently was returned to her by a Florida couple who found it in 1977. / ...

  • Alabama court system facing layoffs chief justice says

    'In the Constitution of Alabama, we are the only branch that is guaranteed reasonable and adequate funding, and we are not getting it,' Chief Justice Roy Moore said Tuesday. / AMANDA SOWARDS/ADVERTISER ...

  • Indian guest workers sue Alabama-based company

    GULFPORT, MISS. — Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing an Alabama-based marine and fabrication company, claiming it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions after bringing them to work at Gulf Coast shipyards after Hurricane Katrina. Three federal lawsuits backed by the Southern Poverty Law Center were filed Tuesday in Mississippi and Texas on behalf of ...

  • W.Va.s local-food movement a model for Appalachia

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with food entrepreneurs are seeding a new kind of economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states.Officials with the Appalachian Regional Commission, the U.S. Department of ...

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