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Leftlane (Free subscription) | yesterday
While street racing is a serious problem in some communities, an incident that occurred this past weekend really has us scratching our heads. Two Comcast employees were reportedly racing their company vans through the streets of Huntsville, Alabama when one driver lost control and slammed into a car carrying a grandmother and her two [...]
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | yesterday
You know how you have to wait around for hours for a Comcast technician to show up? We've finally found why that is. Two Comcast employees were street-racing their vans around Huntsville, AL. The racing turned less fast-and-furious and more tragic as one van lost control and hit a vehicle that had three-year-old Kayleen Smith inside. The accident left Smith in a coma. Eyewitness reports say...
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The Consumerist (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
According to WAFF in Huntsville, Alabama, last weekend 2 Comcast Cable vans were racing each other at speeds of over 75mph which caused an accident that put 3-year-old Kayleen Smith (pictured left)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Bizblogger (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Roy Spencer, a scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, responds to John McCain's radical speech on climate control. It's a must read. When the public finds out how much any legislation that punishes energy use is going to cost them, with no guarantee that anything we do will have a measurable impact on future climate, there will be a revolt just like the one now materializing...
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Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 13, 2008 - International Space Station crews soon will have a new water reclamation system that will recycle wastewater, allowing up to six crew members to live aboard the orbiting laboratory. The latest addition to the station's life support system departs today from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.,...
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Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 12, 2008 - Any Trekkies out there? Remember the tricorder? Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock both carried them, and they came in mighty handy exploring "strange new worlds ...where no one has gone before."
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Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 12, 2008 - You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds of sulfuric acid; sideways Uranus and its strange vertical rings. The variety is breathtaking.
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ABC 33/40 Weather Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The NWS Huntsville has issued a Tornado Warning for Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone [AL] till 11:45 PM CDT * AT 1040 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEROKEE...OR NEAR IUKA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. A severe ...
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A Bama Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
From the Huntsville Times : An equipment company in Leighton has a surveillance camera that captured a tornado Thursday afternoon as it passed through parking lot, destroying several cars. Click here to see the video. Leighton is in Colbert County in northwest Alabama. WHNT meterologist Dan Satterfield comments on what he says is probably an F2 tornado here .
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NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Video report here. AILEYTON, Ala. (WAAY) -- Morgan County investigators said they found a Baileyton house in such disarray that a mother of two was arrested based on poor living conditions. According to authorities, state Department of Human Resources workers went to check one of two teenagers who lived in the home on Double S Mountain Road. But what they found make them sick to their stomach.
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All These Worlds (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Per The Huntsville Times: The Apollo Saturn V moon rocket, born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, to lift men on their journeys to the moon nearly 40 years ago, is about to be named one of the "7 Wonders of America" by ABC-TV's "Good Morning America." The honor is especially noteworthy in that the Saturn V may be one of the few man-made objects to make the list, said Larry Capps,...
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ABC 33/40 Weather Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Tornado Warning continues for Colbert and Lauderdale County, Extreme NW Alabama. Shortly after 9 am, NWS/Huntsville advised doppler radar continued to indicate a tornado 11 miles west of Red Bap moving NE 35. TUSCALOOSA/BIRMINGHAM/ANNISTON I-20 CORRIDOR Nothing so far. Nearest strong storms were over the NW corner of Alabama and NE Mississippi. No ...
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ABC 33/40 Weather Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 840 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN COLBERT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... ...
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Debris dropped by hot-air balloons may give scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville data needed to improve tornado warnings. The payloads dropped by the balloons were similar to the types of debris thrown into the air by tornados that touch the ground.
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Ruby Inside (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Yee-haw! The Ruby Hoedown enters its second year, taking place in Huntsville, Alabama on August 8th and 9th, 2008. It's billed as the “Ruby conference for the South” and is sponsored by Engine Yard. Keynote speakers so far are David A. Black (of Ruby Central fame) and Chris Wanstrath (of GitHub fame). Registration is $149 [...]
