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Television viewers have been urged to help an educational support group for struggling young mothers to win a funding battle. The Hanley Community Learning Group is bidding for a £50,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund. It wants the money to provide ...

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has been given £4.8m to set up a gallery showing the history of the city. Council chiefs said the Heritage Lottery Fund cash would make the £9.7m "Birmingham - A City in the Making" exhibition possible. Work on the ...

Bob Riley is urging gaming commissions in seven states to make sure the gambling machine ... swapping $500,000 in donations to a statewide lottery campaign for a seat on a powerful state medical regulatory board. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A federal ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Obama administration is opposing former Gov. Don Siegelman's appeal of his felony corruption conviction before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Birmingham News reported Monday that the Justice Department has filed papers saying ...

Liverpool v. Man City Odds were available at NordicBet.com . Odds on this matchup had Liverpool at 1.90, the draw at 3.35 and Manchester City at 4.20 Liverpool expect Steven Gerrard, Glen Johnson and Daniel Agger to play after recent injuries ...

There were 45 bingo Halls operating in Jefferson County during September before a crackdown by the Birmingham district attorney forced many to close. Inside the BAMACO Bingo hall in Fairfield, Ala., on Friday, September 25, 2009 (The Birmingham News ...

THE streets of Marion in the heart of Perry county, Alabama, are mostly quiet apart from young unemployed African-American men who cruise around town in noisy second-hand cars to kill time. Many shop windows are empty or display for-sale signs ...

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - Despite a ruling restricting electronic bingo gambling in the state from the Alabama Supreme Court, a legal battle continues over regulating bingo in Jefferson County. An attorney for charity bingo operations in Jefferson ...

LEONARD STEINBERG: LEONARD STEINBERG, described as "the sharpest guy on the block", was born in Belfast, the grandson of Jewish immigrants who had fled from Latvia to avoid persecution in the early years of the 20th century. Steinberg went to ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (BP)--Messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention affirmed the effectiveness of cooperative missions and adopted a $46 million 2010 Cooperative Program budget during their annual meeting, Nov. 17–18 at Whitesburg Baptist ...