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Home sales take a big leap in Tuscaloosa
TUSCALOOSA - AL - The Alabama Center for Real Estate says residential home sales spiked significantly last month compared to April home sales in previous years. They were up 43 percent over last year, but 80 percent over 2011. The study is based on an April to April analysis. Since 2003, an average 200 homes per year have been sold. The Center for Real Estate says a total 236 home closings ...
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Etowah County Sheriff warns pregnant women against using drugs
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin says just because a woman wants to put her own life at risk with drugs, doesn't give her the right to endanger her unborn child. Entrekin says this must end. Women are being prosecuted for actions that endanger their unborn children. Sheriff Entrekin says this problem is serious in Etowah County. Some fifty babies are born at Gads den Regional Medical ...
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Judge tosses ex-BP executives obstruction charge
NEW ORLEANS -; A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in ...
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Questions linger in shooting of NY college student
The godfather of a New York college student accidentally killed by a police bullet says the officer should have negotiated instead of firing as an armed intruder held the young woman ...
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Tornado Hits 2 Schools Flattens Neighborhood in Moore
Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was ...
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Legislature approves bond issue for storm-damaged schools
The bill provides $15 million for Mobile's Murphy High School, which was damaged by a tornado on Christmas Day. There is also money for five other schools damaged by tornadoes on April 27, 2011. Three schools in the Tuscaloosa area will benefit, with $3 million for Alberta City Elementary and $2.5 million each for University Place Elementary and Holt Elementary. Phil Campbell High School ...
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Bond issue approved for Alabama schools
The bill provides $15 million for Mobile's Murphy High School, which was damaged by a tornado on Christmas Day. There is also money for five other schools damaged by tornadoes on April 27, 2011. Three schools in the Tuscaloosa area will benefit, with $3 million for Alberta City Elementary and $2.5 million each for University Place Elementary and Holt Elementary. Phil Campbell High School ...
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Inmate dies after stabbing in Ala. prison
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Department of Corrections officials are probing a fatal stabbing at the Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer. Officials say 54-year-old Anthony Jones was stabbed to death during a fight Sunday. Officials have identified 63-year-old Albert Evans as the suspect. Both were serving life sentences. The circumstances that led to the fight were unclear Monday. ...
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Edible insects could solve hunger issues
Bugs were the all the buzz last week when the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Agency released a report that contends "edible insects" may be the easiest way to meet global food needs. Dr. Frank Franklin, a nationally known nutrition and pediatrics specialist from Birmingham, couldn't agree more. Franklin points out health benefits and nutritional value found in ...
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Ex-security guard sentenced on child porn charges
http://bit.ly/Z8JxvZ ) 53-year-old Loyd Jeffrey Hitt, of Center Point, was sentenced Monday in federal court. Hitt pleaded guilty to receiving and possessing child pornography in ...
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Godfather faults NY police in student death
(AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School). CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is ...
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Alabama schools get authority to hire security
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature has authorized city and county school systems to hire armed security guards to protect students. The Senate voted 21-0 Monday to go along with changes the House made to a school security bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Dick Brewbaker of Montgomery. The bill now goes to the governor for review. Some schools now have guards supplied by their ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear religious expression case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a New York town violated the Constitution by opening meetings with prayers that emphasized Christianity. The request for Supreme Court action in the religious expression case arises from the practice of Greece, N.Y., of opening town board meetings with a prayer, which two residents challenged as a violation of the Establishment Clause of ...
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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 ...
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Alabama National Guard infantry battalion comes home
Lots of smiles, hugs and kisses will make this Monday afternoon memorable for the families of returning members of the Alabama Army National Guard's 1/167th Infantry Battalion and subordinate units. The Talladega-based battalion has spent more than ten months active duty in Afghanistan. This battalion has played a role in every major American war since the Civil War. Homecoming events ...
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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 ...
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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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Birminghams Best Places to Work for 2013
Use this slideshow to meet this year's Best Places to Work. The Birmingham Business Journal has unveiled its Best Places to Work for 2013. This competition, which we have presented since 2006, recognizes the top workplaces in metro Birmingham based on the results of an employee survey conducted by Quantum Workplace. You can use the slideshow on the right to see a list of companies that have ...
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Birmingham police probe shooting outside nightclub
http://bit.ly/14jMAjQ ) that one person was shot Sunday morning near CC Nightclub on Bessemer Road. The victim's condition was not immediately known. There were several gun shells on the ground near the shooting. Birmingham police said they were questioning a man, but investigators were not sure of his involvement. Few other details were available early Monday. Information from: ...
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Tornadoes possible for central U.S. Monday
Oklahoma - Forecasters say more severe weather could hit the nation's midsection today. Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. One resident says his mobile home park "took a dead hit." Another 21 were injured throughout the ...
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Redevelopment of Fair Park at the heart of the budget mess
The city council of Birmingham is facing the difficult task of trying to redevelop a badly run-down part of the city with money that is short, and transforming the local economy to a cleaner one at a time of great recession, yet this must be done if we are to plan for the future.
Birmingham is a city that grew up as a manufacturing hub in the American south. The city was hit badly by the Great Depression, and it wasn’t until after the Second World War that things started to look up. The current situation in Birmingham is no different, although the local economy has diversified considerably since back then, it is still heavily reliant on manufacturing activities. Read more
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