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Bo Jackson biking to help tornado relief efforts

Last updated Monday, April 23, 2012 - 4:38pm

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Retired two-sport star Bo Jackson hopes to raise $1 million for tornado relief and increase awareness of lingering damage across Alabama with a five-day, 300-mile bicycle ride through the state that begins Tuesday.

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'Disaster junkies' help communities rebuild

Jay Reeves The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 7:35am

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Taking a break from laying sod in a tornado-torn neighborhood, volunteer David Elliott cocked his head to the left. He was trying to remember all the trips he's made to help rebuild after disasters.

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Residents comb through debris looking for personal belongings after a severe storm and possible tornado ripped through the Georgebrook subdivision area in Trussville, Ala. in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Possible tornado hits Ala.; 2 killed

Jay Reeves The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 3:49pm

CLAY, Ala. — Violent weather including possible tornadoes roared across the heart of Alabama on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 100 others. Searchers went door-to-door calling out to residents, some of whom lived along a path near the deadly twisters that devastated the area last year.

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Parents: Hispanic kids being bullied in law’s wake

Jay Reeves The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 4:10pm

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — It was just another schoolyard basketball game until a group of Hispanic seventh-graders defeated a group of boys from Alabama.

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A weakened Lee still poses flood threat in South

Jay Reeves The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 5, 2011 - 8:06am

SAUCIER, Miss. -- While Lee's winds have lost some of their punch, forecasters warn that its slow-moving rain clouds pose a worse flooding threat to inland areas with hills or mountains in the coming days.

Flash flood watches and warnings were in effect across a swath of the Southeast early Monday, stretching from the lower Mississippi Valley, eastward to the Florida Panhandle and the southern Appalachians, according to the Hydrometeorological Predication Center.

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Students complained about prof charged in rampage

Jay Reeves The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 2:08pm

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Students said they signed a petition and complained to no avail about the classroom conduct of an Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues and wounding three others in a shooting rampage at a faculty meeting.

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