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  • Indian guest workers sue company in Miss. Texas

    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 ...

  • Alabama comes back to beat Auburn 6-3 in SEC Tournament

    Alabama used a 3-run rally in the eighth inning to push past Auburn for a 6-3 victory in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament on Tuesday. The Tide (33-24) trailed 3-1 after three innings, but scored a run in both the fourth and the sixth to tie the game. Chance Vincent hit a single to score Austen Smith for the go-ahead run in the eighth inning. Smith had three ...

  • Ala. man convicted on child sex charges

    GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) - The Etowah County District Attorney says a retired naval religious programs specialist has been convicted of sexually abusing a child. District Attorney Jimmie Harp said Tuesday that William Hammond, of Southside, was convicted last week after the Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction from February 2011. The victim told investigators she was hired to babysit ...

  • OKC Thunder Match Kevin Durants $1 Million Pledge to Tornado Relief

    The Thunder announced Tuesday that they'll give $1 million to the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army and other disaster relief organizations helping after Monday's disaster in suburban Oklahoma City. Earlier in the day, Durant pledged $1 million to the Red Cross from his Durant Family Foundation intended to match other donations and be an incentive for more people to ...

  • Walt Maddox elected president of Alabama League of Municipalities

    Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox speaks at a press conference on the city's commercial revolving loan program for businesses locating in Tuscaloosa's recovery zone at the EDGE business incubator on ...


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Movie Review

Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama

Director Andy Tennant's last film was 1999's Anna and the King, the florid tale of a refined 19th-century British woman who finds herself in the ancient Oriental kingdom of Siam, which is moving slowly into modernity. His latest, the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama, has essentially the same narrative crux, but in this case it's a refined 21st-century New Yorker who finds herself ... ...

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  • The 50th Super Bowl goes to the San Francisco Bay Area 2017 title game to be in Houston

    BOSTON - The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year. Team owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season. San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when ...

  • Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma

    Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children, and those numbers were expected to ...

  • Local woman uses Facebook to connect with family in Oklahoma

    In the aftermath of the deadly tornado outbreak in Oklahoma, many people are recounting memories from the April 27, 2011 tornadoes in Central Alabama. Kristina Osgood of Fultondale, Al. says her house was damaged two years ago. For the past 24 hours, she has been using Facebook to make contact with her relatives in Moore, Oklahoma. Osgood says this is an emotional time for her and her entire ...

  • Ala. courts facing layoffs without extra money

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's chief justice expects to lay off 150 employees after the state's new fiscal year starts Oct. 1 unless the court system gets more money than the Legislature ...

  • Alabamas largest layoffs in 2012 Slideshow

    These are the 19 largest layoffs in Alabama in 2012. The 19 largest layoff announcements in the state of Alabama accounted for a combined 4,575 jobs, according to data from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. Click through the slideshow at the right to see the largest layoff announcements in Alabama from 2012. The BBJ analyzed data from ADECA of Worker Adjustment and ...

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