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One of Auburn University’s most ardent football fans once loved the Crimson Tide.

MONTGOMERY — The board that oversees Alabama’s Prepaid Affordable College Tuition plan is switching from politicians to non-politicians to try to negotiate a solution to the program’s $346 million deficit.

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Republican Party has a new campaign video filled with lots of Democrats — the convicted kind.

As a photographer for more than 30 years, focusing on his subjects has always been part of the job for Charlie Jernigan, owner of Jernigan Photography.
This weekend, however, he’ll set his camera’s sights on a different subject — hunger.

MONTGOMERY — Montgomery police have labeled the search for a missing baby as a death investigation.

Once locked in a world of silence, love and patience would be the keys that would set her free.
That drama will take place on stage this weekend when the Auburn Area Community Theatre presents the “Miracle Worker” by William Gibson, the story of Helen Keller’s childhood and struggle to learn to communicate with others as she copes with being deaf and blind with the help of Annie Sullivan, a governess.

A new national study shows Alabama levies more income tax on families living in poverty than any other state.

You can watch the entire 2010 Alabama Gubernatorial Forum here at OANow.com

My name is Tamara Barnes and I am a juvenile diabetic. I was diagnosed with Type I (juvenile) diabetes at the age of five and immediately began insulin injections. This was the most terrifying experience in my life and I’m sure this is true for many insulin-dependent diabetics. One memory I will always have is the memory of my parents chasing me through the house to give my first insulin shot. I saw my mother break down and cry for the very first time in my life.

Will Graham, the grandson of famed evangelist Billy Graham, will come to Auburn March 26-28 for the East Alabama West Georgia Will Graham Celebration at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum on the Auburn University campus.

Michelin Development opened its office for East Alabama Tuesday morning and announced that it would began taking applications for $2 millions in low-interest loans to qualified start-up, small- and medium-sized companies in the area.

Auburn residents will have another choice for a cable provider, but no one knows when it will happen.

Montgomery police officers were searching a landfill in Salem Tuesday for an infant they believe may have been placed in the trash.

The election may be more than a year off but you wouldn’t have known it by the turnout at the Alabama Gubernatorial Forum 2010 at Auburn University Tuesday.

The Opelika City Council and Opelika Mayor Gary Fuller honored the Opelika fireman of the year, Capt. K. Phillip Hope, for his hard work and 22 years of service to the Opelika Fire Department at the Opelika City Council meeting Tuesday night.

KMMG Opens Application Process for Second Wave of Hiring

Montgomery police officers were in Lee County today searching a landfill in Salem for an infant who they believe may have been delivered and placed in the trash.

The event, which begins at 7 p.m. in the AU Student Center ballroom, is expected to include Republicans Robert Bentley, Bradley Byrne, Kay Ivey, Tim James and Bill Johnson, and Democrats Artur Davis and Ron Sparks. Jeremy Campbell, a reporter with ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, will moderate the discussion.

Visitation hours for John “Stump” Thrower, a 56-year-old radio personality from Auburn who was found dead Monday, is 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home. A graveside service will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Rosemere Cemetery in Opelika.

Kia Motors says it will reopen the application process for production and maintenance jobs at its new assembly plant in West Point.