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Galleria named biggest shopping destination in Ala.

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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 4:47 a.m.

HOOVER, Ala. (WIAT) The next time you go shopping why not head to Birmingham? You'd be one of millions to do so ... The Alabama Department of Tourism named the Riverchase Galleria as the biggest shopping destination in the state ... The Galleria drew in about 15 million shoppers last year ... Coming in at a distant second was the Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro ...

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Applications to be taken for Hoover school board seat

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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 1:45 a.m.

Term of school board President A.W. Bolt set to expire this year ...

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Alabama A&M trustee Rev. Tom Bell faces complaint of living outside the Congressional District he represents

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 11:45 p.m.

Bell is one of two 5th District representatives on the A&M trustees. But a complaint filed last week in Madison County Circuit Court alleges that Bell actually lives in Vestavia Hills near Birmingham in the 6th District ...

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AHSAA Final 48

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 9:23 p.m.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) The road to the Final 48 continues Tuesday when regional tournament's tip off ... Pickens starts its run Wednesday night against Tharptown at 7:30, again Pickens County is 26 and 1 this year ... Each and every year in the final 48 there are contenders and there are sleepers ... One of the contenders in 5A are the Spartans of Pleasant Grove. They've been lightin' up the scoreboard this year. These guys can beat you from outside the arc but they've also got inside game

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Alabama Bound Presents—Carolyn Maull McKinstry Discusses While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 3:26 p.m.

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On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girls’ rest room she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history ... and the turning point in a young girl’s life. While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping eyewitness account of life in the Jim

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The Strength Team visits local church

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 4:14 a.m.

(Hoover, AL) WIAT- Smashing bricks with their bare hands, blowing up a hot water bottles until they burst, and ripping license plates to pieces, the Strength Team made quite an impression at a local church ... The Strength Team visited Green Valley Baptist Church in Hoover on Sunday ... The strongmen use their skills to share their inspirational stories and religious faith. ...

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Railroad repairs will close three more Mobile streets

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 12:46 a.m.

Railroad crossing work will take place this week from today Monday through Friday on Wellington Street in Trinity Gardens and on Forest Hill Drive near Zeigler Boulevard, the city of Mobile traffic engineering office announced. Both streets will be closed at the crossings ...

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Readers eye Trader Joe's for Birmingham

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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 12:00 a.m.

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Last week, our unscientific Business Pulse poll asked readers what retailer they'd like to see in Birmingham.It was a close vote, but ultimately, specialty supermarket Trader Joe's came out on top, with 27 percent of the vote.That was good enough to hold off Nordstrom, which once announced plans to open a location in the Birmingham area before General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP), which owns Hoover's Riverchase Galleria, canceled plans to bring the retailer to the mall.Ikea, with 23 percent of

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