http://www.yourstreet.com/news/al YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us Editor's note: J.P. Giglio is one of 60 AP voters. • JP Top 25 archive • AP, USA Today polls • Pollspeak (how everyone else voted) The top eight didn't change for the first time all season but No. 9 through No. 25 is the same roulette wheel it has been since... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6756501/jp-top-25-week-12 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:04:08 -0800 10:05:35 : Hello folks, October 24 is here....looks like some rain may be moving in for some in Tampa Bay... 11:34:36 : Gonna watch USF-Pitt in about half an hour. Hoping the Bulls can rebound... 11:55:42 : You'd think if a national emergency would be declared, the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751853/october-24th-shhh-it-s-a-national-emergency Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:00:08 -0700 By Mike Luce This week, let's take a look at the follies of the top BCS teams, as ranked in the first poll released by the Bowl Championship Series HAL 9000 on Sunday night. The top teams are, in order: Florida, 'Bama, Texas, Boise, Cincy, Iowa, USC, TCU, LSU, and... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751572/the-college-football-report Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:38:08 -0700 Dr. Michael Roy Sharpe sits in a Alabama jail on Monday federally charged. The pediatrician who once practiced in the Nashville area is charged with rape, sodomy and possessing child pornography. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6744783/former-tenn-doctor-arrested-on-child-porn-charges Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:15:08 -0700 Liv said... So today is Columbus day. Who was Christopher Columbus? Well, in 1492 he sailed the ocean blue. We all know that. But in 562, (1170 by some legends) some 900 odd years prior to Columbo and his detective skills, a witty and songful Welshman by the name of... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742581/columbus-day-welshman-madoc-rightfully-discovered-america- Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:38:08 -0700 Editor's note: J.P. Giglio is one of 60 AP voters. • JP Top 25 archive • AP, USA Today polls • Pollspeak (how everyone else voted) 1. Florida Record: 5-0 Last week: 2 (won @ LSU, 13-3) This week: Arkansas Wake me up for the SEC title game. 2. Alabama Record:... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6742266/jp-top-25-week-6 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:05:08 -0700 JIMMY BURCH Another erratic offensive effort, lowlighted by the disappearance of Texas? ground game, triggered a shakeup in Sunday?s polls that will create angst among a cross-section of Longhorns? fans. Texas fell to No. 3 in the latest Associated Press rankings,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6744595/texas-might-ask-defense-to-carry-it-to-a-national-title Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:31:08 -0700 By WILLIAM WILKERSON No, really, it’s OK. There’s nothing wrong with your hearing or eyesight. The same can be said for your television and radio. You’re fine and the latter two objects aren’t stuck on repeat. You, along with everyone else who... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6744600/tim-tebow-did-just-enough-to-get-florida-a-victory Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:30:08 -0700 Alabama's steady rise in the rankings has left the Crimson Tide with a clear view of No. 1 Florida. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6745610/sec-rules-florida,-alabama-are-1-and-2-mlb-box-scores-and-schedule Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:00:08 -0700 Iowa moves up one notch to No. 11. Florida, Alabama give SEC top two teams in rankings. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6750134/iowa-football-undefeated-hawkeyes-have-clear-view-of-ap-top-10 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:52:08 -0700 Claudette Colvin was 15 when she refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a Montgomery, Ala., bus. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6747801/rights-pioneer-wants-story-told Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:00:08 -0700 Arts and Minds by Chris Landers: The crowd at the 10th annual conference of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society that gathered in Baltimore Sept. 30-Oct. 3 was older, but not uniformly so, and perhaps a bit tweedy, but not entirely. The society's vice-president, Kirk... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6748862/the-tenth-annual-f-scott-fitzgerald-conference-takes-the-bus Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:00:08 -0700 by Average Joe (Posted Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:01:27 GMT) narcoleptish wrote: No, that's prejudice. The vast majority of things that get labeled racist, are actually prejudice. Racism is the belief that you are superior to someone else due to your ethnicity. To have a... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734111/washington-times-editor-what-is-isn-t-racism Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:01:08 -0700 WAPT Sports is reporting that OU quarterback Sam Bradford has flown to Birmingham, Alabama, to see renowned sports surgeon James Andrews. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6737798/wapt-sports-sam-bradford-seen-boarding-plane-to-see-sports-surgeon Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:44:08 -0700 ATLANTA — Authorities are searching for a toddler swept away in a rain-swollen creek in west Georgia as heavy rains and thunderstorms claimed at least 2 other lives in the Southeast. Authorities in Carroll County, near the Alabama line, say the child... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6730388/toddler-missing-in-ga-floods Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:28:08 -0700 At least two people died in floodwaters in Georgia and a Tennessee man was missing after swimming into an overflowing ditch on a dare as rows of thunderstorms drenched the Southeast, submerging some major highways in the Atlanta area and prompting flood warnings... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6729107/2-killed,-1-missing-as-storms-drench-southeast Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:09:08 -0700 An Athens man arrested in an Alabama motel room last month after an alleged rampage in McMinn County is now facing a new charge. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6728870/athens-man-facing-new-charge Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:00:08 -0700 Last night's episode of "Mad Men" was one of those "holy moley!" episodes where so much happened and much of it was absolutely jaw dropping. Did you ever think you'd see blood on the walls at Sterling Cooper? Spoiler alert - don't read below if... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6726202/mad-men-one-minute-you-re-on-top-of-the-world- Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:42:08 -0700 Interesting. The Times some time ago chronicled efforts to remove Arkansas from the very short list -- along with only Alabama -- that still required annual rabies vaccinations . Vaccines last much longer and many states now require shots every three years. The... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6726953/change-slowed-on-rabies-shots Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:17:08 -0700 WILLINGBORO - Members of the Al-Nasr Islamic congregation gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan at their mosque on Bridge Street on Sunday morning. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6731094/a-celebration-of-faith Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:00:08 -0700