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President Obama is set to sign a bill Friday that honors the victims of Birmingham's 16th street Baptist church bombing which took place on September 15, 1963. More>>
Books-A-Million, Inc. announced this week that it will collect donations to support The Salvation Army's tornado relief efforts in Moore, Oklahoma.More>>
Samples sent to the CDC for testing after a cluster of respiratory illness in southeast Alabama came back positive for influenza A, rhinovirus and bacterial pneumonia, according to the Alabama DepartmentMore>>
Vulcan is turning 109 next week. "Vulcan may be the world's largest cast iron statue, but he still needs help blowing out his birthday candles!" Christina Almanza of Vulcan Park and Museum said. On Sunday,
Thursday, May 23 2013 7:23 PM EDT2013-05-23 23:23:28 GMT
Three days after a deadly tornado passed through the town of Moore, Oklahoma Alabamians are continuing to pitch in for relief efforts. In the town of Tuscaloosa, an area heavily impacted by the April
Three days after a deadly tornado passed through the town of Moore, Oklahoma Alabamians are continuing to pitch in for relief efforts.
Thursday, May 23 2013 7:22 PM EDT2013-05-23 23:22:41 GMT
Rep. Jo Bonner announced today that he'd be leaving the Alabama legislature to take a position with the University of Alabama system. Bonner will take a newly-created position as vice chancellor for government
Rep. Jo Bonner announced today that he'd be leaving the Alabama legislature to take a position with the University of Alabama system. Bonner will take a newly-created position as vice chancellor for government
Motorists traveling through Alabama during the long Memorial Day weekend will see extra state troopers on the road. Alabama officials announced the extra troopers are the result of the state participating in the nationwide...
Thursday, May 23 2013 8:18 PM EDT2013-05-24 00:18:42 GMT
Gus Malzahn wrapped up his first spring as Auburn's head coach about a month ago. Several positions are up for grabs including at quarterback. Kiehl Frazier and Jonathan Wallace are returning, incoming
Gus Malzahn wrapped up his first spring as Auburn's head coach about a month ago. Several positions are up for grabs including at quarterback.
Thursday, May 23 2013 8:13 PM EDT2013-05-24 00:13:18 GMT
There is a new book out for Auburn fans called Decades of Dominance: Auburn Football in the Modern Era. The books looks at Auburn football from the Pat Dye era until today. Don talks to the books author,
There is a new book out for Auburn fans called Decades of Dominance: Auburn Football in the Modern Era. The books looks at Auburn football from the Pat Dye era until today.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 7:10 PM EDT2013-05-21 23:10:55 GMT
The Remington Trophy watch list has been announced. The Remington is awarded to college football top center. This year watch list includes Alabama's Ryan Kelly and Auburn's Reese Dismukes. Kelly was
This year watch list includes Alabama's Ryan Kelly and Auburn's Reese Dismukes.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 6:23 PM EDT2013-05-21 22:23:27 GMT
Seventh-seeded Alabama scored three times in the eighth inning en route to a 6-3 win over the 10th-seeded Auburn Tigers in the first round of the SEC Baseball Tournament
Seventh-seeded Alabama scored three times in the eighth inning en route to a 6-3 win over the 10th-seeded Auburn Tigers in the first round of the SEC Baseball Tournament
Monday, May 20 2013 11:41 PM EDT2013-05-21 03:41:16 GMT
The Auburn baseball team, seeded 10th, will face a familiar foe in the first round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament as it is set to face seventh-seeded and in-state rival Alabama on Tuesday at the Hoover Met.
The Auburn baseball team, seeded 10th, will face a familiar foe in the first round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament as it is set to face seventh-seeded and in-state rival Alabama on Tuesday at the Hoover Met.
Thursday, May 23 2013 6:34 PM EDT2013-05-23 22:34:41 GMT
A big honor for the late Mal Moore. The former Alabama athletics director was named the College Athletic Director of the Year by Street and Smith Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily. Moore
A big honor for the late Mal Moore. The former Alabama athletics director was named the College Athletic Director of the Year.
Thursday, May 23 2013 5:36 PM EDT2013-05-23 21:36:06 GMT
Alabama had a 5-3 lead in the 7th, but a two run RBI from Ole Miss's Stuart Turner tied the game up and it would stay that way after nine innings. This would become the 9th game of the season for the
Alabama had a 5-3 lead in the 7th, but a two run RBI from Ole Miss's Stuart Turner tied the game up and it would stay that way after nine innings. This would become the 9th game of the season for the
Wednesday, May 22 2013 5:53 PM EDT2013-05-22 21:53:37 GMT
In the second round of the 2013 SEC Baseball Tournament, the Alabama Crimson Tide suffered a 3-0 loss to the second-ranked and No. 2 seeded LSU Tigers on Wednesday afternoon from the Hoover Met. Following
In the second round of the 2013 SEC Baseball Tournament, the Alabama Crimson Tide suffered a 3-0 loss to the second-ranked and No. 2 seeded LSU Tigers
Wednesday, May 22 2013 12:37 PM EDT2013-05-22 16:37:03 GMT
The Southeastern Conference and CBS Sports announced on Wednesday that the University of Alabama's football game against Texas A&M, slated for Saturday, September 14, at Kyle Field in College Station, TX.
The Southeastern Conference and CBS Sports announced on Wednesday that the University of Alabama's football game against Texas A&M, slated for Saturday, September 14, at Kyle Field in College Station, TX.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 7:10 PM EDT2013-05-21 23:10:55 GMT
The Remington Trophy watch list has been announced. The Remington is awarded to college football top center. This year watch list includes Alabama's Ryan Kelly and Auburn's Reese Dismukes. Kelly was
This year watch list includes Alabama's Ryan Kelly and Auburn's Reese Dismukes.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 6:23 PM EDT2013-05-21 22:23:27 GMT
Seventh-seeded Alabama scored three times in the eighth inning en route to a 6-3 win over the 10th-seeded Auburn Tigers in the first round of the SEC Baseball Tournament
Seventh-seeded Alabama scored three times in the eighth inning en route to a 6-3 win over the 10th-seeded Auburn Tigers in the first round of the SEC Baseball Tournament
As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the...
As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the...
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust."
A truck carrying an oversize load struck a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below, though all three occupants suffered only...
The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon.
During a hurricane, storm surge is one of the greatest threats to life and land, yet many people don't understand the dire warnings from forecasters to get out of its way. So this season, they hope to offer...
After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the...
After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's...
Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime - baseball bats.
Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime - baseball bats.
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker...
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath...
Britain's Ministry of Defense says a Typhoon jet has been launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft.
A British fighter jet was launched to divert a civilian plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Pakistan to England after an incident on board, British officials said Friday.
An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40...
An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male...
Uganda's president has removed his top military commander and put him in a civilian role in a shuffle apparently prompted by an ongoing row over a rumored plan for President Yoweri Museveni to have his son...
Uganda's president fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state.
Two Muslim hardline preachers say that one of the suspects in the killing of a London soldier was interested in their teachings. And a British government official said one of the men tried to go to Somalia to train...
The slaying of a British soldier in southeast London cast a spotlight on radical preachers that influenced Michael Adebolajo, the attacker seen in videos with bloody hands holding a butcher knife. It also raised questions...
Austria said Friday that it may rethink its U.N. peacekeeping role in the Golan Heights, if the European Union doesn't extend its arms embargo to Syria.
Austria said Friday that it may rethink its U.N. peacekeeping role in the Golan Heights, if the European Union doesn't extend its arms embargo to Syria.
France's finance minister says the government is no longer planning to cap executives' salaries in the private sector, amid concerns it is antagonizing the big businesses needed to reinvigorate the economy.
The French government is trying to woo executives and entrepreneurs, amid concerns that it has antagonized the businesses needed to reinvigorate the economy.
Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital.
Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital.
A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant.
A man wanted for 13 years on attempted murder charges in Los Angeles was captured in Colorado after someone called police to report he was urinating on a wall outside a KFC restaurant.
A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase.
A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase.
Thursday, May 23 2013 8:13 PM EDT2013-05-24 00:13:18 GMT
There is a new book out for Auburn fans called Decades of Dominance: Auburn Football in the Modern Era. The books looks at Auburn football from the Pat Dye era until today. Don talks to the books author,
There is a new book out for Auburn fans called Decades of Dominance: Auburn Football in the Modern Era. The books looks at Auburn football from the Pat Dye era until today.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:14 PM EDT2013-05-22 02:14:25 GMT
Her name is Just-A-Dream and she's the most decorated Arabian mare in the world. Just-A-Dream is back home at Cornerstone Ranch in Shelby County. She is back home with the other champions raised by
Her name is Just-A-Dream and she's the most decorated Arabian mare in the world. Just-A-Dream is back home at Cornerstone Ranch in Shelby County.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 8:29 PM EDT2013-05-22 00:29:48 GMT
Plenty of changes going on for the UAB women's basketball program. A whole new coaching staff has been brought in. Led by head coach Randy Norton. Norton, the new Blazers head coach comes from Missouri
Plenty of changes going on for the UAB women's basketball program.
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Thursday, May 23 2013 7:22 PM EDT2013-05-23 23:22:41 GMT
Rep. Jo Bonner announced today that he'd be leaving the Alabama legislature to take a position with the University of Alabama system. Bonner will take a newly-created position as vice chancellor for government
Rep. Jo Bonner announced today that he'd be leaving the Alabama legislature to take a position with the University of Alabama system. Bonner will take a newly-created position as vice chancellor for government
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