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Alabama News Digest

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:34:12 -0400

The state at 2:30 p.m.

2 Tunisian soldiers killed by roadside bomb

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:02:29 -0400

TUNIS, Tunisia - A roadside bomb killed two Tunisian soldiers who were hunting al-Qaida-linked militants Thursday in a mountainous region near the Algerian border - the first military deaths from enemy fire in a campaign that began in December.

Audio: Bus driver defied gunman in bunker drama

Fri, 31 May 2013 19:56:46 -0400

MIDLAND CITY, Alabama - A six-day bunker hostage standoff in Alabama began with a school bus driver stubbornly refusing to hand over children as hostages despite threats from the gunman who killed him moments later, according to newly released recordings.

FBI agent looks back on decade since bomber found

Fri, 31 May 2013 12:00:30 -0400

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Ten years ago Friday, a rookie police officer in Murphy, North Carolina, stumbled across a vagrant rummaging through a Dumpster.

Gilbert turns out to honor veteran

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:40:00 -0400

PHOENIX - Tossed like a rag doll by an exploding 500-pound bomb, U.S. Army Ranger Cory Remsburg landed face down in a canal. He lay motionless as his buddies scrambled to find him.

US says Pakistan curbing explosive fertilizers

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:47 -0400

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has taken a number of steps to prevent fertilizers made within its borders for agriculture from being used as explosives in roadside bombs that target American troops in Afghanistan, said a top U.S. military officer Monday.