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Birmingham, AL - Patricia Humes showed up at Cooper Green Hospital Tuesday morning for her regularly scheduled chemo treatment.

This past weekend, I drove down to Delta, Alabama, met with one of my Randolph County cousins, Mr.

Tracy Lawrence will be playing a private concert at the Sports Book Bar and Deli at Victoryland in Shorter, AL.

Several days of rain ended just in time for the 44th Annual Eufaula Pilgrimage. There was plenty of blue sky and sunshine for pilgrims and local residents attending today's opening ceremony at Shorter Mansion.

Profitability, genetics, transitioning, forages and wedge grazing will be on the agenda Tuesday, April 28, as Alabama dairy producers gather at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station's E.V. Smith Research Center in Shorter for the 2009 Dairy Field Day.

Wyatt Shorter was a business leader who pursued numerous outside interests during many of his 76 years, but he was remembered most Tuesday as someone who never lost sight of the responsibilities that came with his clout.

Gov. Riley is pushing a point when he appeals the decision of retired Alabama Supreme Court Justice Mark Kennedy in the White Hall Entertainment Center case.

Joe Zawinul was a man of many parts. Player of keyboards, composer, vocalist, and boxing enthusiast: he rolled them all into one.

Today, VictoryLand turned the waters of its Grand Fountain pink in support of Joy to Life's Walk of Life, which annually raises money to fight breast cancer.

Country stars George Jones, Marty Stuart, Darryl Worley and Tracy Lawrence joined an Alabama developer at Alabama's State House on Tuesday to ask legislators to approve a gambling bill that would bring ...

Peanut producers urged to cut crop: Southeast peanut producers were urged at a recent growers meeting in Alabama to cut production by at least 20 percent in 2009, to combat oversupply, the agriculture journal ...

I am sure there is gambling in Alabama. Aren't casino parlors a place to gamble? Aren't there casinos in Wetumpka, Shorter, Atmore and perhaps other places? If you get gambling outlawed, what will happen to ...

Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist Dave Binney is one of the most prolific young jazz musicians on the scene today.

Facing budget cuts in the 2009-10 year and beyond, Alabama's school systems are looking at alternative ways to save money.

SHORTER -- VictoryLand added 1,500 electronic gambling machines, a nightclub and other facilities Monday, even as its president admitted the recession is cutting gambling revenues.

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Cheering rang loud through Rip Hewes stadium as people from across Alabama, Georgia, and Florida took a stand.

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity To celebrate the holiday season and the imminent release of his debut record, The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn on Fresh Sound Records, there will be a special performance by ...

How do you spell relief for the education budget? Could it be B-I-N-G-O? Lawmakers may consider a gambling tax in the next session.. And the Alabama Education Association is all for it.

Alabama can't rival Las Vegas or Atlantic City - or even Mississippi - but gambling has arrived here, and it could get even bigger if Indian tribes ever reach a compact with the state.