A year after a tornado swept through Brookwood, Alabama, a debris field left by that storm has caught fire.
Player whose girlfriend was ripped from his arms and killed during Tuscaloosa tornado, takes the field in BCS Championship.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 5. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
CNN's Reynolds Wolf takes a look at Alabama football and the tornado that damaged much of the Tuscaloosa area.
Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama paid tribute Saturday to first responders who aided neighbors staggered by the April 27 tornado that cut a swath through the city and killed 47 people.
There are college football fans. And then there are University of Alabama football fans.
There might not have been a truer definition of bittersweet than the events that unfolded this weekend in an Alabama college town recovering from an April day when the winds screamed and the houses blew away like feathers.
University of Alabama holds commencement, delayed for months by a killer tornado.
CNN's David Mattingly shows the slow rate of recovery for tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa.
This is a tale of two cities tied together by two tornadoes of the most wicked order, the apocalyptic EF-5 -- and by acts of charity that followed. It demonstrates how one good turn -- or town -- deserves another.
Giants defensive lineman Justin Tuck was raised in Alabama, and he knows Tuscaloosa and its surroundings very well. At least he used to. He spent two days there last week on a mercy mission after a series of 12 tornadoes hit the area April 27, killing at least 236 people and destroying entire towns.
A deaf couple describe how they survived a tornado that demolished their home. WAFF reports.
A week after a record number of tornadoes swarmed through much of the Midwest and the South, killing hundreds of people and devastating villages and towns, residents and officials in the region were still trying to measure its impact.
Top federal officials voiced admiration and vowed cooperation Sunday after touring tornado-ravaged areas in Alabama and Mississippi, promising help to those who made it through this week's storms as they reconstruct their lives and communities.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano talk about damage from recent storms.
Emergency responders continue to tally the dead from the second-deadliest, single-day tornado outbreak in U.S. history.
As emergency responders continued to count the dead on Saturday, states pulverized by this week's tornado outbreak encouraged volunteers to help -- but in an orderly way.
The storm system that plowed through the South left scenes of destruction described as "surreal" and "sickening" by those who saw them. Authorities were working to reach those trapped; some states are facing a long and arduous recovery. Here's a look at the latest confirmed death toll as provided by state authorities as well as reports from some of the worst-hit areas.
I had to live all over the country before I realized that Americans everywhere live with some kind of fear hanging over their daily lives.
Hopes of finding trapped survivors dwindled Friday evening in Alabama, the epicenter of storms that obliterated neighborhoods and towns and claimed scores of lives across the South.
President Obama makes a statement after touring tornado-ravaged Alabama.
A Marshall County, Tennessee, man dies after his car is swept into a flooded creek. WMC reports.
In the aftermath of severe tornadoes, survivors are stunned by the devastation.
The severe storms that carved a path of destruction across large swaths of the American South this week caused an estimated $2 billion to $5 billion in insured losses, catastrophe modeling firm Eqecat said Friday.
We knew the threat was real when little pieces of Tuscaloosa began to drop on Birmingham. For such a violent storm, there was very little rain. Instead, paper receipts from businesses 50 miles away and strangers' family photos flitted through the air.
Leveled buildings, fallen trees and massive piles of rubble stretched across wide swaths of the South after destructive tornadoes and severe storms tore through the region.
The cleanup begins after an outbreak of severe weather across the South leaves death and destruction in its wake.
A tornado kills dozens and levels parts of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Leveled buildings, fallen trees and massive piles of rubble stretched across wide swaths of the South Thursday after destructive tornadoes and severe storms tore through the region.
Dazed Southerners on Thursday comforted one another and began the process of rebuilding after a barrage of storms claimed nearly 300 lives and reduced once-familiar neighborhoods to piles of bricks and lumber.
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to a man who videotaped a tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Eliot Spitzer interviews Mayor Walter Maddox about a tornado that cut through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Wednesday.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- At this point, we have to wonder: Does Urban Meyer wake up in a cold sweat every few nights, having seen one of Nick Saban's blitz schemes in his dreams? Does he reflexively gag at the sight of crimson? Does he have an unusual disdain for elephants?
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The Alabama first-team defense, the best unit on teams that went 26-2 the past two seasons, never enjoyed a post-spring steak dinner. When Crimson Tide players gathered to close the book on spring practice the past three years, the defenders always ate from the plates of beans reserved for the losers of the annual A-Day Game.
The reminders are everywhere: Wash your hands. Use hand sanitizers. Stay away from class if you're sick.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama nose guard Terrence Cody will probably miss at least two games.
While hosting TRL the country star say she "forgets the microphone different places"
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Expectations hang over the LSU football program. Literally.
They say college football is religion in the Deep South, but it's not. Only religion is religion. Anyone who has seen an old man rise from his baptism, his soul all on fire, knows as much, though it is easy to see how people might get confused. But if football were a faith anywhere, it would be here on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Ala. And now has come a great revival.
With large swaths of the Gulf Coast still in ruins from Hurricane Katrina, rich federal tax breaks designed to spur rebuilding are flowing hundreds of miles inland to investors who are buying up luxury condos
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.
"I swore I would never do what I'm doing right now," says Charles Burroughs. Tall and broad with a bald pate and those familiar gray eyes. Blue shirt, khaki pants, aviator glasses. Thick, flat fing...
Now as we were young and easy under the swaying palms, about the great hotel as happy as the roughs were green ...
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'...
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