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  • Salvation Army asking for help for Oklahoma

    Monetary donations are encouraged by The Salvation Army to help the people affected by tornadoes in Oklahoma. The money will be used to purchase specific needs for the areas rather than items or supplies that may not work at this particular disaster. Go ...

  • Judge sets date for hearing for Desmonte Leonard

    OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) - A Lee County judge has scheduled a hearing for a man accused of killing three people at an Auburn apartment complex last year. Circuit Judge Jacob A. Walker set the date for the hearing for 23-year-old Desmonte Leonard for 2 p.m. Oct. 15 in Lee County Court. The Opelika-Auburn News reported ...

  • Your Health 5-21-13 Music in ICU

    Birmingham, AL - Music really does make you feel better. A new study shows critically ill patients were soothed by their favorite music and it made a difference in their need for sedation medicine. The Ohio State University research included patients in the intensive care unit who were placed on ventilators. Researchers say participants who were allowed to listen to their music experienced a ...

  • Real estate investors sentenced in Alabama fraud case

    MONTGOMERY - AL - Two real estate investors have been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for bid rigging at public foreclosure auctions and mail fraud. Department of Justice officials said Monday that Jason Brannon, of Mobile, and his father, Robert Brannon, of Laurel, Mississippi, were each sentenced to 20 months in prison. Authorities say the two conspired with others to fraudulently ...

  • Turtle Travels exhibit in Gadsden

    The Turtle Travels exhibit at the Imagination Place Children's Museum in Gadsden will wow you and your children. It's 3000-square-feet of turtle information complete with a Critter ...


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Movie Review

Blindness [DVD]

Blindness [DVD]

Based on the novel by Nobel laureate Jos Saramago, Fernando Meirelless Blindness is a harrowing, if sometimes overly hammering descent into the darkest depths of human nature. A sort of Lord of the Flies parable, it suggests an inexplicable and highly contagious epidemic that r ... ...

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  • Maddox elected President of League of Municipalities

    Walter Maddox, mayor of the city of Tuscaloosa, is the new president of the Alabama League of Municipalities. Maddox was elected during the League's annual convention in Montgomery. Maddox is in his second term as Tuscaloosa's mayor. He said, "I am honored to serve the League and the people represented by League members in this capacity. In the months and years ahead, our League ...

  • New York is jealous of Birmingham

    Birmingham makes the top of many city lists - some of which make us cringe. However, most are not significant - and the methodology's ...

  • Democrats start last day of session by calling it worst session we can remember

    Aquarius There simply aren't enough hours in the day today for you to do everything that's on your list, so concentrate on the priorities. Don't feel guilty about what's been left out and start to worry about it. This isn't an easy day because you're feeling pressured and anxious, so don't expect too much from yourself. There's less energy than usual, ...

  • Crews race to find survivors of Oklahoma twister

    A member of a security team helps guard an area of rubble from a destroyed residential neighborhood, one day after a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against the winds. (AP Photo/Brennan ...

  • Alabamians are delinquents when it comes to credit card debt

    Alabama has the second-highest credit card delinquency rate in the nation. Alabama had the second highest credit card delinquency rate nationwide in the first quarter, according to an analysis by Chicago-based TransUnion. The states credit card delinquency rate was 0.94 percent in the three months ended March 31, a drop from 0.97 percent during the same period a year ago and 1.16 percent in the ...

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