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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 ...

  • Housekeeper gets 6 years in Pa. Ben bust theft

    NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen in suburban Philadelphia and reportedly worth $3 million. Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala., was living in Philadelphia when the bust was taken Aug. 24 from a home where she had worked as a housecleaner. She fled to Alabama with the bust and was arrested Sept. ...

  • Update Alabama House rejects Bentleys 2-year-delay Bentley responds

    The Alabama House has rejected Gov. Robert Bentley's proposal to delay private school tax credits for two years. The House voted 57-10 Monday to reject the governor's proposal. Now the proposal goes to the Senate on the last meeting day of the legislative session. The new Alabama Accountability Act provides state tax credits of about $3,500 for parents who enroll a child in a private ...

  • Senator Corporate contribution limits may end

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A key state senator says lawmakers are poised to strike down limits on corporate political contributions in Alabama ...

  • Two women charged with chemically endangering a child in East Alabama

    GADSDEN-AL - Two Etowah County women have been arrested and charged with chemical endangerment of a child. Tiffanie Angelia Mitchell, 23, of Gadsden, was arrested on May 6 and is charged with one count of chemical endangerment of exposing a child to an environment in which controlled substances are produced or distributed. Breanna Latreace Wilson, 18, of Attalla, was arrested on the same ...


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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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  • Kerry vows better embassy security

    washington - Secretary of State John Kerry is vowing that the Obama administration will spare no expense or effort to protect U.S. diplomats serving overseas. Speaking to State Department trainees today, Kerry said he was fully committed to implementing and expanding on the recommendations of an independent review board that investigated the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in ...

  • Birmingham gas prices remain flat

    Birmingham gas prices have remained stable in the past week, falling by one cent. The average price per gallon for gasoline in Birmingham on Sunday was $3.25, only one cent less than the week before. Reports from GasBuddy.com show the gasoline prices in the Birmingham area have remained largely flat over the past week, after rising three cents last Sunday. The national average is $3.68 per ...

  • Mississippi Power names Ed Holland as president

    The move comes after additional cost overruns were announced at the coal-fired power plant Mississippi Power is building in Kemper County. Mississippi Power's vice president of generation, Tommy Anderson, also recently left the ...

  • 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 ...

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