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Authorities say a man who was arrested after 16 years as a fugitive for allegedly shooting his estranged wife while she was holding their 18-month-old boy is the father of University of Alabama football signee Reuben Foster. Danny Foster, 41, was captured Friday in Miami, said U.S. Marshals spokesman Scott Sides. Authorities say Danny Foster [...]

  LEEDS, Alabama –  Brett Isom was removed Thursday night from Leeds’ Planning and Zoning Commission by a city council vote after it was stated he was inefficiently handling a proposed zoning regulation amendment needed for work to proceed on the Grand River mixed-use development. The amendment would pave the way for the Daniel Corporation [...]

Reuben Foster holds a trophy after he won MVP of Team Nitro at the Under Armour All-America high school game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla.(Photo: Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports) The father of University of Alabama football recruit Reuben Foster was captured in Florida after more than 16 years as a fugitive, according [...]

The mailbag is back up and running here on the SEC blog. Remember, you can send all of your questions here, whenever you want. Don’t be shy. The more questions we get, the more mailbags we can do. National signing day was Wednesday and spring practice is just around the corner, so let’s get to [...]

We’re sticking with offense on our top 25 countdown, as we look at one of the top linemen the SEC has had for the last few years: No. 12: Barrett Jones, C, Alabama, Sr. 2012 summary: The consensus first-team All-American and All-SEC member also won the Rimington Trophy, as the nation’s top center. Heading into [...]

Diandra Milliner performs on the Floor for a 9.9 during the Crimson Tide’s NCAA gymnastics meet with Kentucky, Friday, January 25, 2013, at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)   TUSCALOOSA, Alabama — For each of the past four years, Sarah Patterson has started her preseason coaches poll ballot with the same team at [...]

Alabama softball Coach Patrick Murphy helped lead the Tide to a World Series championship last season.(Photo: Photo courtesy of Alabama Athletics) After years on the cusp, Patrick Murphy and Alabama finally broke through and brought the Southeastern Conference its first Women’s College World Series championship last year. Now, there’s a budding tradition to uphold. Murphy [...]

Chicken-fried steak. Deep-fried gizzards. Candy-sweet tea. Consider these delicacies, and it’s easy to see how the Deep South garnered its unfortunate distinction as the “Stroke Belt.” Now, researchers have drawn the strongest link yet between these kinds of foods and risk of stroke. University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers found that people who regularly ate [...]

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Law enforcement personnel station themselves on the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes.(Photo: Joe Songer, AP) Bomb technicians have found no more explosive devices after an arduous search of the rural Alabama property of Jimmy Lee Dykes, the gunman who shot dead a school bus driver and held a boy captive for nearly a week in [...]