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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A gunman who fired into a crowded bar and wounded nearly a dozen people turned himself in Tuesday, several hours after the rampage rattled the nearby University of Alabama campus, police said. AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Joe Songer Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ted Sexton, left, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steve Anderson, center, and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox answer questions Tuesday, and announce the arrest of a gunman who fired into a crowded bar in Tuscaloosa early Tuesday and wounded nearly a dozen p...
HENRYVILLE, Ind. — Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes wrecked two Indiana towns and killed at least six people Friday as the system tore roofs off schools and homes, flattened a fire station, flipped over tractor-trailer trucks and damaged a maximum security prison. It was the second deadly tornado outbreak this week. Authorities reported the six deaths in southern Indiana, where Marysville was leveled and nearby Henryville also suffered extreme damage. Each is home to about 2,000 people. AP Pho...
Morgan Hayden and Joe Moton stepped carefully through nails, broken glass and pink tufts of insulation, the remnants of their home leveled by a tornado as severe storms killed at least 10 people in rural Mississippi and 2 in Alabama. The couple had planned to marry today, but with little left besides the clothes on their backs, they weren't sure what to do. "It'll work out, though," 27-year-old Hayden said Sunday, a day after the tornado ripped through as she and Moton, 31, huddled in a bathtub. The bathroom was the only...
A problem lurks under the sand on the Gulf Coast, but some argue the best thing to do is — nothing. Walk to a seemingly pristine patch of sand, plop down in a chair and start digging with your bare feet and chances are you'll walk away with gooey tar between your toes. So far, workers hired by BP to clean oil off beaches have skimmed only the surface, using shovels or sifting machines. The oil underneath is sometimes buried by the tides before workers can get to it. Now the company is planning a deeper cleaning program that c...
