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Columbus man caught with 200-plus images of underage girls having sex pleads guilty

Police confiscated Michael Smithart’s computer while raiding his Victory Drive home March 28, 2011. Investigators found 215 images and three videos that, though deleted, police still were able to retrieve.

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Carmike CEO David Passman receives Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award

David Passman’s work to put Carmike Cinemas on solid financial footing, while upgrading the chain’s existing theaters and adding more have earned him an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Southeast.

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FILe - In this March 22, 2013 file photo, Alabama athletic director Bill Battle gestures during a news conference in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Battle isn't sure any football program has ever topped the Crimson Tide's current run of dominance. Battle's background and perspective make that high praise, indeed. He played for coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's first national championshp team at Alabama in 1961 and was a successful Southeastern Conference head coach himself. "I think what they've done is unprecedented," Battle said Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/The Tuscaloosa News, Robert Sutton)

Alabama athletic director: Tide football on unprecedeented run

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama athletic director Bill Battle isn't sure any football program has ever topped the Crimson Tide's current run under Nick...