Prison escapee found hiding in apartment (AP)

" BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An escaped prisoner accused in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer who was grabbed at gunpoint outside her loft was captured Saturday after authorities acting on a tip swarmed an apartment where he was discovered hiding in a closet. Dedrick Griham, 35,...

5 questions with NASCAR announcer Eli Gold (SportingNews.com)

" Print this | E-mail this | Comments on this article : 0 Posted: September 6, 2006 Greg Engle Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Eli Gold has a voice known to millions of NASCAR fans - he has worked for MRN since 1976. Fans might be surprised to learn that Gold began his...

5 questions with . . . NASCAR announcer Eli Gold (SportingNews.com)

" Print this | E-mail this | Comments on this article : 0 Posted: September 6, 2006 Greg Engle Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Eli Gold has a voice known to millions of NASCAR fans -- he has worked for MRN since 1976. Fans might be surprised to learn that Gold began his...

Taylor Hicks settles suit with producer (AP)

" BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Reigning American Idol Taylor Hicks has settled a lawsuit he brought against a Nashville producer over the rights to three songs he wrote and recorded before becoming a TV phenom. Hicks gained possession of the master recordings of the songs under the...

`Idol' winner Hicks sues former producer (AP)

" BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge has temporarily barred a producer from selling songs recorded by "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks when he was still just a gray-haired bar crooner from Alabama. U.S. District Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins issued the ruling Tuesday in...

Britain seeks custody of terror plot mastermind

"slamabad, Aug 17 (IANS) Britain is seeking from Pakistan custody of Rashid Rauf, the man from Birmingham, who Islamabad believes is the key planner of the foiled terror plot to blow up transatlantic airlines mid-flight, said The Dawn Thursday. A six-member team of...

Unearthing the fear growing in England - The Age

" THEY lived on quiet English streets. Neighbours invariably described them as polite, pleasant and respectable. But from unremarkable houses in East London, a leafy town in Buckinghamshire and Birmingham, 24 young British residents, mostly of Pakistani background, were...

Former NASCAR driver injured in I-65 crash (SportingNews.com)

" injured in a crash on I-65 that closed the highway for two hours, officials said Saturday. Purvis, from Clarksville, Tenn., was bound for Talladega, where he was to compete Saturday night in a Dirt Late Model Series race at Talladega Short Track. The crash occurred when a...

Ala. barbecue restaurants spread in South (AP)

" BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama's best export might be slathered with sauce. 'Bama-based barbecue restaurants — known for their variety of styles — are spreading throughout the South and beyond, slowly gaining an out-of-state foothold in a highly regionalized business...

Services disrupted by train fire (BBC News)

A discarded cigarette butt causes a fire on a train, disrupting services between Birmingham and Coventry.