Alabama tornado team scours paths of killer storms
Source: Los Angeles Times
Hackleburg :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 15:10:38 -0700 | technology-news
The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle -- a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to its dash -- crested a rolling hill on...
Joint High Speed Vessel completes acceptance trials
Source: United Press International
Mobile :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 12:58:14 -0700 | business-news
Navy's second high speed, intra-theater transport ship has successfully completed acceptance trials, the Navy announced. Choctaw County, a Joint High Speed Vessel, was built by Austal and is for transport of troops, cargo and vehicles. "With these extensive tests, this...
Bond issue approved for Alabama schools
Source: SF Gate
Montgomery :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 15:50:29 -0700 | political-news
Ala. (AP) The Alabama Legislature agreed on its last meeting day to sell bonds to borrow $30 million to repair tornado-damaged schools. The Senate voted 26-6 Monday afternoon to give final passage to the bond legislation...The bill provides $15 million...
Alabama lawmakers approve sweeping gun bill
Source: SF Gate
Montgomery :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 15:50:25 -0700 | political-news
Ala. (AP) An overhaul of Alabama's gun laws is on the way to Gov. Robert Bentley , who is expected to sign the proposal. The House approved the final version 73-28 Monday afternoon, mostly along party lines, with Democrats and...
MU opens SEC baseball tournament vs. Mississippi State needing win to stay alive
Source: Kansas City Star
Hoover :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 18:12:09 -0700 | sports-news
With his team needing a win Tuesday night to keep its season alive and advance in the Southeastern Conference tournament, Missouri baseball coach Tim Jamieson will see a familiar face staring across from him on the diamond...Missouri's first-round opponent, fifth-seeded...
Strategy Analytics: Axeda leads M2M Application Development Platform (ADP) Market
Source: PR Newswire
Enterprise :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 14:44:11 -0700 | technology-news
A key component of any M2M deployment concerns the development of applications. From monitoring patients to geo-fencing construction equipment assets, application development is a critical software element that brings an M2M project to life. ADPs are dedicated application frameworks that...
Muscogee County School Board votes to close Edgewood Elementary, Marshall Middle schools
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Phenix City :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 18:57:58 -0700 | allnews
It was standing room only 30 minutes before the meeting started. They came with hopes that their schools would be saved from the budget ax. But the packed room Monday night at the Muscogee County Public Education Center turned into...
Suspended Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Dorothea Batiste claims former judge Scott Vowell ...
Source: The Birmingham News
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 18:34:22 -0700 | political-news
Dorothea Batiste, the Jefferson County judge suspended with pay last month over allegations she entered unlawful contempt orders for the arrest of people in divorce cases , claims in court filings that she was sexually harassed by Scott Vowell, the...
Alabama shuffles men's basketball staff
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Tuscaloosa :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 17:31:16 -0700 | sports-news
Alabama basketball coach Anthony Grant has reorganized his staff, including promoting former Tide player Antoine Pettway to assistant coach. Dan Hipsher, the Tide's associate head coach under Grant during 2009-13, was hired as Texas-Pan American's head coach in April.
Trussville approves plans for 2 new elementary schools preserving historic building
Source: The Birmingham News
Trussville :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 16:58:30 -0700 | political-news
Calling it an agreement that unites Trussville, the city's school board this evening approved plans for two new elementary schools -- one in Magnolia Place and another in the Cahaba Project that preserves the New Deal era building that housed...
UAB looking for people to take a scratch-and-sniff test for Parkinson's disease study
Source: The Birmingham News
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 15:13:55 -0700 | health-news
Losing your sense of smell might be a risk factor for developing Parkinson's disease and to that end the University of Alabama at Birmingham is part of a worldwide effort to sniff out the answers. The study is looking for...
Tour backspin: Carlsbad's Johnson wins first LPGA title
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 17:07:21 -0700 | sports-news
She was born in Poway, grew up in Carlsbad, and after one year of high school at Cathedral Catholic her parents moved her out to Bermuda Dunes, where she played on the boys golf team. She went to Arizona State...
Chuck Williams: Remember the Chattahoochee River race? I do -- sort of
Source: Ledger-Enquirer
Eufaula :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 14:27:51 -0700 | political-news
They are three most compelling words in Southern English. Bubba, watch this
What happens after those words are uttered is usually spectacular and often really stupid. The aftermath is tinged with regret and this strange Southern pride...One of...
Relay For Life of North Jefferson surpasses fundraising goal with $61,000 (video, photos)
Source: The Birmingham News
Birmingham :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 15:13:54 -0700 | health-news
For Life of North Jefferson worked together to raise more than $61,000 this year. In the months running up to the annual fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, which was held Saturday at the Gardendale Civic Center, teams raised...
Former Birmingham Museum of Art guard sentenced to 8 years and one month in prison on child ...
Source: The Birmingham News
Center Point :: AL :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 14:00:33 -0700 | political-news
The hearing was held at the federal courthouse in Huntsville. Glennon Threatt, an assistant public defender representing Hitt, in February had described Hitt as a dedicated husband, a long-time guard at the museum "who made a tragic mistake in judgement....
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