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Deadliest Tornado Outbreak in Decades Kills Nearly 300

PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. -- Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 297 people were killed across six states - more than two-thirds of them in Alabama,...

Survival Stories Emerge From South's Tornado Tragedy

Poignant tales from tornado survivors are pouring in -- of muffled screams from under piles of debris, university students hit in the head by a flying Jeep Cherokee and a 6-year-old boy, unconscious but alive, pulled from the rubble as his wounded father wept. At least 178 people are believed to have died in one of the...

Alabama Shows Off Passing Game at A-Day

In front of the second-largest crowd of the spring games (78,200 according to the half-time announcement), Alabama threw the ball early and often.I made my way down to Tuscaloosa for A-Day this year, and what I saw didn't surprise me in the least. The traffic to Tuscaloosa and around town was not quite as bad as a typical...

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05/30/12 Non-profit children's dental office opens in Tuscaloosa Source: FOX - WBRC 6 - Birmingham AL A dentist who specializes in serving children in need opened a new office in Tuscaloosa Wednesday.
05/30/12 Tuscaloosa settles with insurance company for... Source: FOX - WBRC 6 - Birmingham AL The city of Tuscaloosa is settling with the insurance company it had threatened to sue.
05/29/12 Tuscaloosa pays tribute to fallen service members Source: Tuscaloosa News - Tuscaloosa AL
TUSCALOOSA | It's not hard for Tuscaloosa native John Caldwell, retired lieutenant general and featured speaker at the Memorial Day Program at Veterans Memorial Park on Monday, to understand what Memorial Day is about.
"Twenty-nine of my West Point classmates were killed in Vietnam," Caldwell said, his voice breaking.
05/28/12 Tuscaloosa Post 34 shuts out Dothan Source: Tuscaloosa News - Tuscaloosa AL
By Tony Tsoukalas
Special to The Tuscaloosa News
TUSCALOOSA| American Legion baseball team Tuscaloosa Post 34 improved to 3-1 after beating Dothan Post 12, 3-0, to close out the Memorial Day Classic at Tuscaloosa Academy on Sunday.
Sunday's game served as a homecoming for former Post 34 coach John Rushing, who was on hand as an assistant coach for Dothan.
"It was fun to come back and see the old friends," Rushing said.
05/28/12 Tuscaloosa houses on Places in Peril Source: Tuscaloosa News - Tuscaloosa AL
TUSCALOOSA | The two Tuscaloosa dwellings on this year's Places in Peril list have little in common, other than a tendency to survive.
The Lustron house at 27 Parkview Drive, in a small neighborhood across from Central High School, was one of a series of modest manufactured homes stamped out in assembly-line fashion for affordable post-World War II housing.
By comparison, 1 Wood Manor is a virtual mansion, one of the works of the noted architect Don Buel Schuyler, an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright who also designed the Queen City Pool and Bathhouse, among others.
Lustron homes sought the future in enamel-coated steel panels with built-in appliances and exteriors.