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By Associated PressBirmingham, AL – Forbes magazines new list of the nation's 200 Best Small Companies features three Alabama companies. The top Alabama…

By Alabama Public RadioCollinsville, AL – An almost 80-year-old symbol of the city of Collinsville is back home after being restored in Florida. Computer…

Montgomery, AL – The Alabama Senate has selected Republican Sen. Del Marsh of Anniston to its top leadership post.The unanimous vote to elect Marsh…

Montgomery, AL – The pre-kindergarten programs of Alabama and North Carolina have been rated the nation's best by the National Institute for Early…

The President meets regularly with his top advisers about the security situation in Iraq. His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley attends these meetings. He talks with Steve Inskeep about what the president wants to know, and what he needs to know.

An all African-American Little League team from Chicago is drawing lots of attention and making a big impression. It's been 31 years since an all-black team made it into the league's World Series.

The chief executive of CKE Holdings, the parent company of Hardee's and Carl's Jr., is an outspoken critic of raising the minimum wage and increasing overtime and workplace safety regulations.

Amanda Filipacchi's novel is about a costume designer who wears a fat suit after a suitor commits suicide. It's structured as a mashup of an old Friends episode, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

The latest data from the Labor Department suggests there's a bit more wind in the sails of the economic recovery. Still, the job growth in the private sector now appears to be strong enough that some people worry that the Federal Reserve might start to pull back on its efforts to boost the economy.

They're the instrument anyone can play — but only two places in the U.S. make them, and only one makes the colorful plastic kind most people know. Karen Michel pays a visit to the latter.