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Lightning strikes behind a bridge that crosses a pond on the Alabama Shakespeare Festival grounds Montgomery, Ala., Monday, March 18, 2013. Strong storms moved across much of Alabama on Monday, bringing hail, high winds, and heavy rainfall as a cold front passed through the state.
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Alabama's AJ McCarron holds The Coaches' Trophy after the BCS National Championship college football game against Notre Dame Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, in Miami. Alabama won 42-14. Read the full story.
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Johnny Noble votes in the auditorium at the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse Annex in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 18, 2012. Alabama voters decided by a 2-to-1 margin to avoid dramatic cuts in state government by withdrawing $437 million from a state trust fund to help balance the General Fund budget for the next three years.
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Hurricane Isaac makes second landfall, floods coastal communities, but levees still hold.
Just after midnight on Aug. 28, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of Isaac and the cities near the Gulf Coast. The VIIRS “day-night band,” detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses light intensification to enable the detection of dim signals. In this case, the clouds of Isaac were lit by moonlight.
NASA Earth Observatory
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James Davis, 73, stands over the grave of his wife, Patsy, in the front yard of the home they shared in Stevenson, Ala. The city sued to make Davis move his wife's remains from the residential tract, and Davis is asking the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals to block an order requiring him to disinter her remains.
Davis, 73, said he never expected such a fight.
"Good Lord, they've raised pigs in their yard, there's horses out the road here in a corral in the city limits, they've got other gravesites here all over the place," said Davis. "And there shouldn't have been a problem."
While state health officials say family burial plots aren't uncommon in Alabama, city officials worry about the precedent set by allowing a grave on a residential lot on one of the main streets through town. They say state law gives the city some control over where people bury their loved ones and have cited concerns about long-term care, appearance, property values and the complaints of some neighbors.
-- Reported by the Associated Press
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James Davis holds a photo of his late wife, Patsy Davis.
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A stranded motorist waits for the fire department to come to his aid in Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 9, after heavy rains flooded many sections of the metropolitan area.
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Veterinarian Dr. Robert Gaddis takes an X-ray before performing a root canal to fix the broken tooth of Kumar, the Malayan tiger at the Birmingham, Ala. Zoo.
Joe Songer / The Birmingham News via AP
Veterinarian Dr. Robert Gaddis performs a root canal to fix a broken tooth of Kumar, the Malayan tiger at the Birmingham Zoo.
Zoo keepers at the Birmingham Zoo in Alabama discovered Kumar the 235-pound Malayan tiger had a broken tooth during a routine medical exam. The vets decided to perform a root canal on 13-year-old cat in an attempt to save the tooth.
The photos were shot on May 2, but were made available to msnbc.com today.
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Voters cast their ballots in the Alabama primary at the Vaughn Park Church of Christ precinct in Montgomery on March 13, 2012.
A woman feeds her completed ballot into an electronic reader at the Vaughn Park Church of Christ precinct on Tuesday.
The JacksonChannel.com reports: Tuesday's Deep South primaries could answer questions for all three Republican presidential candidates.
Polls are open in Mississippi and Alabama as Mitt Romney tries to make a southern breakthrough. At the same time, Newt Gingrich is seen as needing wins to stay in the race while Rick Santorum looks for a knock-out blow against Gingrich. Santorum wants to go one-on-one with Romney.
Related story: First Thoughts – Why Romney could lose (and also win)
Read more political coverage @ NBC Politics
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Greg Cook hugs his friend David Derrick at East Limestone community on Friday, March 2. A reported tornado destroyed several houses in northern Alabama as storms threatened more twisters across the region Friday.
Severe storms and tear through the midwest and southern states.
Multiple tornadoes tore paths across Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana on Friday, leaving an undetermined number of people injured, and homes and businesses destroyed, emergency officials and forecasters said.
A "very large super-cell" of tornadoes touched down in northern Alabama early in the day, damaging homes and a prison and injuring at least four people. In southern Tennessee, another twister ripped 20 homes off their foundations and submerged boats, officials said.
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Ed Jones, Ashley Farmer and June Jones watch 10-month-old Rhylan Kendrick play in a box in what remains of Ed and June's Center Point Ala. home on Jan. 25. The home was damaged by the tornado that devastated towns in Alabama.
Ed Jones and his wife of 63 years, June, have lived in Center Point, Ala. since 1958. Early Monday morning their home was destroyed by a tornado that ravaged through Jefferson County. Family members including granddaughter Ashley Farmer and great grandson Rhylan Kendrick, 10 months, came by their home to help on Jan. 25, but the Jones’s are not sure if any part of the structure can be saved.
Rhylan was allowed to play in boxes in the living room to avoid hurting himself on the pieces of sheet-rock, wood and insulation that littered the floor.
The National Weather Service said at least six different tornadoes skipped across central Alabama, Jan. 23, causing damage across a wide area. The strongest hit Jefferson County with winds up to 150 mph.
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Erin Reid, left, gets a hug from Linda Martin outside the Center Point Elementary School in Center Point, Ala., Jan. 24, 2012. The school was heavily damaged by a tornado on Monday. Erin and Linda are second grade teachers at the school.
A group of media, law enforcement officers, teachers and government officials walk through the lobby of the heavily damaged school.
WPMI-TV reports: Authorities say Center Point Elementary School was more than 80 percent damaged during Monday's tornado and will be bulldozed. The school was built in 2003, and an addition was built in 2007. Officials expect that the elementary will be rebuilt.
Msnbc.com reports: Residents in towns just outside Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday were sifting through the debris from 500 homes and 50 businesses either destroyed or damaged by storms that spawned three twisters early Monday. Two people died and around 100 were treated for injuries.
The National Weather Service confirmed that three tornadoes touched down early Monday. Two in Tuscaloosa County did little damage. But the one that touched down in Jefferson County was on the ground nearly two hours starting at 2:30 a.m. Monday and ripped through hundreds of properties, including the public elementary school in Center Point, which was destroyed.
Second grade teacher Monica Finley cries after retrieving personal items on Tuesday.
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Residents walk around through the debris of their neighborhood after a severe storm ripped through the Trussville, Ala., area in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Randy Christian said the storm produced a possible tornado that moved across northern Jefferson County around 3:30 a.m., causing damage in Oak Grove, Graysville, Fultondale, Center Point, Clay and Trussville.
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A workman clears trees from houses in the Paradise Valley area of Clay Chalkville, Alabama, after the neighborhood was hit by tornadoes early January 23, 2012.
From the full story about possible tornados that tore through Alabama:
"We have major, major damage," said Bob Ammons, another Jefferson County EMA official, speaking of Center Point, Trussville and some unincorporated areas of the county.
"Some roads are impassable, there are a number of county roads where you have either debris down, trees down, damage from homes," added Yasamie Richardsond, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.
In Clanton, about 50 miles south of Birmingham, rescuers were responding to reports of a trailer turned over with people trapped, City Clerk Debbie Orange said.
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