A trip through sweltering Alabama to experience some of the civil rights movement's most important sites brought history books to life for my family and me.
The kid who delivers your pizza may be charging you an extra buck for gas, but for the guy that trucked the tomatoes, hauled the dough or milked the cows, passing along the fuel increase isn't as easy as pie.
A bus carrying members of a Marine Corps Reserve unit overturned at an Alabama military base Sunday, leaving 23 Marines injured, four of them critically, the military said in a news release.
Life was pretty good for Tommy Bowden before Wednesday. The Clemson coach recently signed a seven-year contract extension -- after a flirtation with Arkansas -- that could pay him as much as $2.2 million a year. He already had defensive end DaQuan Bowers, the player some believe is the best prospect in the class of 2008, on campus and attending classes.
The Supreme Court blocked a scheduled execution at the last minute, keeping in place a de facto moratorium on capital punishment while it considers the constitutional question over how lethal injection is administered.
A trip through sweltering Alabama to experience some of the civil rights movement's most important sites brought history books to life for my family and me.
The kid who delivers your pizza may be charging you an extra buck for gas, but for the guy that trucked the tomatoes, hauled the dough or milked the cows, passing along the fuel increase isn't as easy as pie.
A bus carrying members of a Marine Corps Reserve unit overturned at an Alabama military base Sunday, leaving 23 Marines injured, four of them critically, the military said in a news release.
Life was pretty good for Tommy Bowden before Wednesday. The Clemson coach recently signed a seven-year contract extension -- after a flirtation with Arkansas -- that could pay him as much as $2.2 million a year. He already had defensive end DaQuan Bowers, the player some believe is the best prospect in the class of 2008, on campus and attending classes.
The Supreme Court blocked a scheduled execution at the last minute, keeping in place a de facto moratorium on capital punishment while it considers the constitutional question over how lethal injection is administered.
Players are committing earlier and earlier these days. How early? Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei quarterback Matt Barkley, one of the nation's top prospects for the class of 2009, already announced his commitment to USC.
An etiquette teacher found herself on the wrong end of a lesson when Alabama's Supreme Court sided with actor Sacha Baron Cohen in a lawsuit she'd filed against the actor.
Rain and snow fell Saturday across the Southeast, causing slippery roads, triggering flight cancellations and setting the stage for icy conditions as temperatures continued to drop.
The easiest way to rank a recruiting class is to wait four years and add up a school's wins and losses. But where's the fun in that? With three weeks to go until national signing day, most programs have a pretty good idea how their class will look. And while it's a fruitless exercise to rank classes that aren't yet complete, it's not hard to figure out which category some of the nation's high-profile programs belong in at the moment.
Dear FSB: I own a small health and safety company, which I am financing on a tight budget. What is the best way to market our services in the local metro area (Columbus, Ga.) without breaking the bank?
The state's school board is the first to approve a text for studying the Bible's influence on history and culture, which is not the same thing as Bible study. Will other states follow suit?
Just as the college football world was turned upside down last weekend, the preps world went stagant. No team in the top 25 lost, and only a handful received true challenges.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama star cornerback Simeon Castille pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge that he shouted to passengers in a car and challenged them to a fight.
A measure to end the sale of alcohol in Athens, Ala., is up for a citywide vote, a rare instance where voters could overturn a previous vote to allow sales
In Alabama, late-paying homeowners can lose their properties to foreclosure at breathtaking speed - as little as 30 days after a delinquency notice is published.
Four years ago, the Devil Rays had the first pick in the draft, as they do today. Their internal debates came down to the wire, as they did not finalize their decision to select California high school outfielder Delmon Young over Southern University second baseman Rickie Weeks until the morning of the draft.
A train carrying reusable solid rocket booster segments for the space shuttle derailed in western Alabama Wednesday, leaving at least two people injured, a NASA spokeswoman said.
Last Monday, I published a column about new Alabama coach Nick Saban that mentioned how he abruptly skipped out on our scheduled interview during my recent visit there. That little nugget was never intended to be the centerpiece of the column. It was part of a larger description of what I observed there -- all of which illustrated a larger point that Saban's "jerkish" ways would ultimately be good for Alabama's long-struggling (and often loosely run) program.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- New Alabama coach Nick Saban doesn't have time for you. Or me. Or anyone that's not one of the 85 or so football players he's trying to turn into champions (or the prospective recruits he'd like to add to those 85). Thus, he treats the rest of his world -- assistants, support staff, the media -- accordingly.
ATLANTA -- They came within one basket of the Sweet 16 last year, returned four starters, and were ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation in December. And now the Alabama Crimson Tide will wait for a call from the NIT.
1. Sweat shirt size of the week: The XXXXXXL sported by 7-foot-9, 370-pound Chinese center Sun Ming Ming for the Maryland Nighthawks of the ABA. Naturally, Sun (or is it Ming Ming?) complains that the garment is too small. Indeed, it's so hard to find a good tailor (or schneider, for you Yiddish-speaking readers) these days.
It's the first Friday of the month and thus time for the latest all-reader-submission edition. Thanks as always for the entries. Please check back with the 10 Spot next week when we will be on location in Glendale, Ariz., for the BCS Championship Game, including a live running diary posted throughout Monday night's game.
One of at least two calves born to an Alabama cow with mad cow disease will be tested for evidence of the fatal, brain-wasting disease, the state's agriculture commissioner said Friday.
Investigators on Monday were examining two fires in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to determine whether they were set intentionally and, if so, whether they are related to a series of fires set at churches elsewhere in the state.
An attempted arson at an east Alabama church on Sunday bears little similarity to 10 other intentionally set church fires in the state, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.
Investigators looking into the fires at nine Baptist churches in Alabama over the past week are hoping a handprint left on one church's front door may help catch a perpetrator.
Storm-hit towns and communities in the Carolinas, Florida and Alabama are cleaning up in the wake of a string of suspected tornadoes that swept the Southeast on Friday.
Disaster response officials are urging evacuated residents not to return for at least a week to areas of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi hit hard by Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Dennis weakened to a tropical storm Sunday night after sweeping ashore with winds up to 120 mph, causing power outages and flooding in the Florida Panhandle and lower Alabama.
The remnants of Hurricane Ivan had reached as far north as Massachusetts on Saturday after pounding the Gulf Coast in Florida and Alabama and spawning tornadoes and flooding in the Southeastern United States.
After wreaking havoc on the Alabama and Florida coasts, the remnants of Hurricane Ivan punished the Southeastern United States on Friday, knocking out power to more than a million customers and flooding parts of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
Remnants of Hurricane Ivan soaked the Southeast Thursday evening after the storm came ashore with full force in Alabama and spawned tornadoes that killed eight people.
Two people in Florida were killed when the outer edge of Hurricane Ivan bashed four southeastern states with strong winds and pounding waves Wednesday.
Delegates attending the Republican National Convention found that the theatrics weren't just on Broadway. Organized protests and spontaneous sidewalk encounters with anti-Bush demonstrators became part of their New York experience, a contrast to the unified and harmonious message found inside Madison Square Garden.
President Bush and John Kerry campaign today in battlegrounds Colorado and Florida, respectively. If not respectfully. But the political headlines this morning come out of South Dakota and Alabama, where tight elections with echoes of comebacks kept us guessing till early this morning.
Bounced from office and not listed on any ballots, Alabama's "Ten Commandments judge" could nonetheless be a major player in the state's primary June 1.
What makes a five-hour road trip more boring than watching a spoonful of jelly harden? Making the drive without a decent radio station. That's when satellite radio pays off. You can listen to a vas...
The Supreme Court used the case of Alabama death row inmate David Larry Nelson for a stark discussion Monday about execution methods, and whether federal judges can consider last-minute challenges to punishment.
Hundreds of pages of President Bush's Vietnam-era military files were released to the media Friday amid questions about whether he completed his required service in the Air National Guard.
A decade ago, Alabama's state pension fund made an unusual investment, pouring over $100 million into what was to become the largest golf construction project in history. The result? The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, an immense network of 378 holes on eight sites throughout the state, all designed by renowned course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr., who died two years ago at 93.
Sure, Lassie was nice. But pet owners today are more exacting. To get a hairless Sphynx cat like Austin Powers's Mr. Bigglesworth, prepare to pay Mew Attitudes Cattery in Ozark, Ala., $3,000. For a...
I think of myself as an itch golfer, as opposed to a scratch golfer, because I pick up a set of clubs only when I get the itch. A scratch golfer plays often enough to get good at the game, while I ...
Tune your car radio to a country music station to set the mood. Then head out of Birmingham, Ala., southwest on I-59. Small towns go tumbling by: Abernant, Centreville, West Blocton. Presently you'...
Nothing heralds spring like sidewalk cafes filled with smartly clad urban folk sipping pink drinks from behind designer shades--or better still, a sign in a restaurant window proclaiming THE TERRAC...
| At long last, the voice of the taxpayer has been heard in state capitols all across the country. ''Voters are in a bad mood, and state officials are reluctant to risk their wrath by raising taxes...
Who would have guessed? Some of the best-kept secrets in tax planning are hidden in the dull and daunting instruction booklets published by state tax departments. There, amid jargon-jammed sentence...
Why waste the summer on the beach or herding cattle on a dude ranch when you can spend nine days at Russian space camp -- and experience weightlessness in an airplane? Aerospace Ambassadors, a nonp...
What a coincidence that your October story on why people live best in the U.S.A. was waiting for my husband and me when we returned from a visit to Ellis Island. Standing in the building there, I'd...
Frightened by the prospect of unrelenting tuition inflation, nearly 160,000 parents have latched on to plans that allow them to prepay college tuition for their kids. Should you? While the principl...
Those traditionally prudent and passive managers of pension funds are getting a little bolder at tucking away the $2 trillion in assets they control. Many cash-rich retirement funds are trying to b...
AMERICAN CAN has a packaging problem. The company, which has diversified into consumer goods and financial services, would dearly love to bundle some half- million acres of timberland it owns into ...
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