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Students who lost homes mixed on UA tornado response

Jason Galloway May 4, 2011

A week after an EF-4 tornado left many homeless, affected UA students continue to wait for insurance claims and financial assistance from the University. After the tornado hit, the University set up the...

City trying to restore normalcy

William Evans May 4, 2011

Traffic has been restored to 15th St. and all 300 roads previously blocked in the county have been cleared, according to city and county officials in a press conference Wednesday morning. Traffic control...

Department chairs check in with students

Will Tucker May 3, 2011

On Monday, the City of Tuscaloosa provided a missing persons list—the first of its kind from the city since the storm on April 27 tore through the area. “I don't think we can get this list all the...

Small Business Administration offers loans to rebuild local economy

William Evans May 3, 2011

As search and rescue teams scour the disaster zones for the human casualties of the storm, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is putting plans into place to revitalize the private business sector...

Lawmakers set up delegation office to help constituents

Taylor Holland May 3, 2011

Yesterday, Tuscaloosa-area lawmakers announced they have set up a temporary delegation office to better assist their constituent’s needs following last Wednesday’s tornado. State Rep. Bill Poole,...

Students bring help from hometowns

Jasmine Cannon May 3, 2011

Following Wednesday’s devastating storm, UA students were encouraged by the university to return to their homes. While students departed from the area of destruction, many of them arrived home with one...

UA students from Tuscaloosa reflect on disaster

Katherine Martin May 2, 2011

When an EF-5 tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa, a city many University of Alabama students call home, many parts of the city in which some of these students grew up were left unrecognizable. Since then,...

Saved by a mattress

Letter to the Editor May 1, 2011

by Meridith Shook I was in the bathroom of my house in the Forest Lake neighborhood when the tornado came through on Wednesday. Early that morning, I had woken up to rain beating down on my bedroom window...

Holt 'a little bit forgotten'

Holt ‘a little bit forgotten’

Jonathan Reed May 1, 2011

  Wednesday night, Margaret Brown saw her house fall around her and her business destroyed. Sunday, she vowed to pick up the pieces. Brown, who owns Brown Greenhouses on Crescent Ridge Road in Holt,...

In Rosedale: 'What little we have left, they took'

In Rosedale: ‘What little we have left, they took’

Hannah Mask May 1, 2011

Losing a little may not seem that bad. Unless that’s all you had to start with. As Wednesday’s tornado neared Rosedale Court, a poverty-stricken Tuscaloosa housing authority community located on...

Funds and supplies pour in for storm victims

Funds and supplies pour in for storm victims

Stephen Walker May 1, 2011

Supplies and donations continue to pour in for victims of the deadly tornado that destroyed parts of Tuscaloosa last Wednesday. Organizations such as the Red Cross and United Way have seen a continuous...

Wood Manor community ready to move on

Wood Manor community ready to move on

Jason Galloway May 1, 2011

Neighbors Sam Rombokas and Modell Hawkins used to wave at each other across the street and talk about why Rombokas’ grass always looks better than Hawkins’. “As soon as the weather looks good, you’ve...