Live blog: Tracking the winter storm

01/29/10 Get updates about the winter storm crossing North Carolina. Read viewers' thoughts about the snow, get behind-the-scenes details about WRAL's snow coverage and find out what our meteorologists are saying.

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Local Ashley Furniture HomeStores Accepting Donations for Haiti Relief

01/29/10 Ashley Furniture Currently Collecting Bottled Water, First Aid Supplies and Food

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Internet aids in candidate transparency

01/29/10 For those who wonder who supports who in federal elections, look no further than the Federal Election Commission and its online database.

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Town Hall Forum At NC A&T Looks Back And Toward The Future

01/28/10 Reverend Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson were in Greensboro Thursday, preparing for the opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

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Alabama's top recruit set to visit Clemson

01/23/10 TUSCALOOSA ?With the class nearly full for this year, Alabama is set to welcome a few lingering prospects to campus this weekend. Yet perhaps the most important visit for the Crimson Tide's 2010 signing class will take place more than 300 miles away.

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Church Programs

01/23/10 Benville Baptist Church: Cottondale, will have Dr. Barbara Spencer speaking at 5 p.m. today. Call 205-553-8912.

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Around town 01/22

01/22/10 FRIDAY ARTS Alabama Wind Ensemble: 7:30 p.m. in the Moody Music Building. Alabama Symphony Orchestra presents Rodgers & Hammerstein: 8 p.m. in the concert hall at the BJCC in Birmingham. Tickets are $24-$72. Visit www.bjcc.org.

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Lattimore's weekend plans not yet set

01/22/10 Byrnes RB Marcus Lattimore has been considering taking an unofficial visit to Auburn this weekend but no decision has been made as of Friday afternoon. Any decision on that visit won't be made until Saturday morning.

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USC done with Deering

01/22/10 USC's recruitment of ATH Jeremy Deering of Tampa is over. The Gamecocks had hoped to get his final official visit this weekend but Deering took it to Rutgers.

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USC could add Simmons to class Saturday

01/22/10 DE Corey Simmons (6-5 230) of Atlanta is making an official visit to USC thru Saturday, and his former coach has encouraged him to make his commitment to the Gamecocks before leaving Columbia. "I told him he better," said Kenneth "Gus" Robinson, a former Gamecock linebacker. "This is an SEC school.

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Nominations sought for friendship award

01/16/10 The Tuscaloosa Sister Cities Commission is seeking nominations for the Dean Paul Garner International Friendship Award. The award is named for the late Paul Garner, longtime dean of the University of Alabama school of business. Garner was a charter member of the Tuscaloosa Sister Cities program and a member until his death.

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Church Programs

01/16/10 Bailey Tabernacle CME Church: 1117 23rd Ave., celebrates its 139th anniversary at 10:15 a.m. Sunday. Speaker will be Bishop Marshall Gilmore. Call 205-758-7405. Benville Baptist Church: Cottondale, will have Dr. Barbara Spencer speaking at 5 p.m. Jan. 23. Call 205-553-8912.

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Home makeover is among top stories

12/31/09 From staff reports The top 10 news stories of 2009, voted on by the staff of The Dispatch, included the good, the bad and the odd. They are the following, in no particular order:

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Ed Gordon And Yolanda Adams Headline Events For Civil Rights Museum

12/30/09 Gospel singer Yolanda Adams will headline the 'Celebration of Unity Service', Sunday, January 31 and journalist Ed Gordon will lead a Town Hall Forum on Thursday, January 28.

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M. Basketball. Deacon Decade - Men's Basketball

12/30/09 The top 10 most significant moments of the last decade in Demon Deacon basketball

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Saturday's Major College Basketball Scores

12/13/09 Army 59, Dartmouth 46 Boston U. 88, Marist 72 Bowling Green 58, Canisius 54 Buffalo 93, Buffalo St. 65 Cent. Connecticut St. 70, Albany, N.Y. 68, OT Columbia 69, Bryant 57 Duquesne 59, Robert Morris 54 George Washington 73, Towson 69 Hofstra 75, New Hampshire 58 Iona 82, Providence 73 Lafayette 77, Long Island U. 63 Monmouth, N.J. 80, Penn 75 Ohio 86, Delaware 70 Pittsburgh 71, Kent St. 59 Rider ...

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Saturday's College Basketball Scores

12/13/09 Albright 71, Kings, Pa. 70 Arcadia 65, Penn St.-Hazleton 39 Army 59, Dartmouth 46 Baruch 69, Yeshiva 63 Berkeley 71, Penn St.-Brandywine 65 Boston U. 88, Marist 72 Bowling Green 58, Canisius 54 Bridgeport 84, Molloy 77 Brooklyn 88, Old Westbury 80 Buffalo 93, Buffalo St. 65 California, Pa. 93, Holy Family 56 Cent. Connecticut St. 70, Albany, N.Y. 68, OT Cincinnati Christian 92, Union, Ky. 88 ...

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Women's College Basketball Schedule

12/11/09 All Times EST Monday, Dec. 14 SOUTH S. Carolina St. at Presbyterian, 11:30 a.m. North Florida at Wake Forest, 11:30 a.m. Tougaloo at Southern U., 3 p.m. Nicholls St. at Bethune-Cookman, 5 p.m. Kentucky Christian at Morehead St., 7 p.m. Alabama at UCF, 7 p.m. Samford at Mississippi St., 8 p.m. Cent. Michigan at UAB, 8 p.m. MIDWEST Lake Erie at Akron, 7 p.m. Michigan at Xavier, 7 p.m. SOUTHWEST ...

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College Basketball Schedule

12/11/09 Monday, Dec. 14 SOUTH Carver Bible at Bethune-Cookman, 7 p.m. Georgia Tech at Chattanooga, 7 p.m. Virginia-Wise at Longwood, 7 p.m. Florida Gulf Coast at S.C.-Upstate, 7 p.m. Campbell at UNC Wilmington, 7 p.m. Mobile at Nicholls St., 7:30 p.m. SE Louisiana at LSU, 8 p.m. Florida Atlantic at New Orleans, 8 p.m. SOUTHWEST Troy at Houston, 8 p.m. Santa Clara at Houston Baptist, 8:35 p.m. Tuesday ...

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CALENDAR: Community Events

08/23/09 TODAY Tuscaloosa Group Alcoholics Anonymous: 9:30 a.m., open discussion nonsmoking; noon, closed discussion; 4:15 p.m., closed discussion, nonsmoking; and 8 p.m., closed discussion, 2025 Jack Warner Parkway. Call 205-759-2497. Al-Anon: 3 and 8 p.m., 2025 Jack Warner Parkway.

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