A woman celebrated her 90th birthday by jumping out of an airplane in Alabama. Dozens of friends from her retirement home were there to cheer her on. ...
09:33 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Elton John still fills stadiums worldwide on his own, but he'll share the spotlight with a dozen other musicians at Sunday's Grammy Awards. The 65-year-old entertainer rehearsed Saturday at Staples Center alongside young Grammy nominees Mumford & Sons, Zac Brown, Ed Sheeran and Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes. ...
03:33 PM, Feb 10, 2013
This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbor," and the power of group prayer. ...
06:36 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Police teams swarmed a rural US property on Wednesday where a man accused of fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old passenger was thought to be hiding in a homemade bunker. Neighbours were evacuated, and one said she had been startled this week by the suspect's stare. ...
11:25 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Auburn: Investigators were searching on Sunday for a gunman who killed three people - including two former Auburn University football players - and wounded three others at a pool party near campus after several men got in a fight over a woman, authorities and witnesses said. One of the wounded was shot in the head and critically hurt. Another was a current player, Eric Mack. Desmonte Leonard opened fire at...
05:26 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Kentucky: Rescue teams and residents combed through storm-wracked towns to assess damage on Saturday from a chain of tornadoes that cut a 1,000-mile swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, as the death toll crept up to at least 39 people. The fast-moving twisters spawned by massive thunderstorms splintered blocks of homes, damaged schools and a prison, and tossed around vehicles like toys, killing 20 people...
08:39 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Indianapolis: Powerful tornadoes ripped through the US midsection on Friday, killing at least 27 people in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio as they splintered homes, damaged a prison and tossed around vehicles across the region. At least 13 people were killed in southern Indiana, another 12 in neighbouring Kentucky and two more in Ohio from storms that battered a band of states from Ohio to Alabama, officials said. "We are no...
11:51 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Tuscaloosa: President Barack Obama promised federal aid on Friday to the tornado-ravaged US South, where deadly twisters have killed at least 339 people and caused billions of dollars in damage. Obama toured smashed homes and met survivors on a visit to the worst-hit state, Alabama. It was one of seven southern US states mauled by recent tornadoes and storms which have caused insured losses of between $2 billion and $5...
06:06 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded on Friday as they tried to emerge from the US' deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression. Emergency buildings are wiped out. Bodies are stored in refrigerated trucks. Authorities are begging for such basics as flashlights. In one neighborhood, the storms even left firefighters to work without a truck. The death toll from Wednesday's storms reached 329 across seven states, including...
08:57 AM, Apr 30, 2011
Alabama: Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors on Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 290 people were killed across six states in the US - more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the half-mile-wide scars the twisters left behind. The death toll from Wednesday's storms seems out of...
07:50 AM, Apr 29, 2011
Tuscaloosa: Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern US states, killing more than 220 people as they flattened neighborhoods, flipped cars and toppled trees and power lines, officials said on Thursday. In the deadliest series of tornadoes in nearly four decades in the United States, 131 people were killed in Alabama, the worst-hit state which suffered "massive destruction of property," Governor Robert Bentley said. "We expect that number to...
11:04 AM, Apr 28, 2011
Washington: A US federal agency has filed a lawsuit against an Alabama based oil rig construction company for alleged demeaning treatment of 500 Indian immigrant workers recruited to work in Mississippi and Texas. Listing numerous complaints of discriminatory conduct by Signal International, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleges that Indian workers were forced to live in "substandard" accommodations and given "unwholesome" food, for which they were charged $35 daily....
01:44 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Amy Bishop shot dead three people at the Alabama Univ on Saturday. ...
11:34 AM, Feb 14, 2010
"There's no way .... they are still alive," suspect is alleged to have said. ...
04:00 PM, Feb 13, 2010
Woman suspect detained for murders of three persons. ...
11:57 AM, Feb 13, 2010
Indian origin professor among those killed in the shooting. ...
07:51 AM, Feb 13, 2010
However, the fleeing pirates have taken the captain as hostage in a lifeboat. ...
11:30 AM, Apr 09, 2009
Over the years multiple shootings have taken place across US. ...
01:45 AM, Mar 13, 2009
Investigators revealed no explanation for why McLendon targeted his relatives. ...
04:14 PM, Mar 12, 2009
This is believed to be the work of a single man named Michael McLendon. ...
10:26 AM, Mar 11, 2009
