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Summary of action in Alabama Legislature
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A summary of action in the Alabama Legislature on Monday, the 30th and final meeting day of the regular session: HOUSE: Rejected the governor's proposal to delay Alabama's new private school tax credits for two years. Gave final approval to a major overhaul of Alabama's gun laws, including allowing workers to keep guns in their vehicles while at their ...
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Etowah County Sheriff warns pregnant women against using drugs
Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin says just because a woman wants to put her own life at risk with drugs, doesn't give her the right to endanger her unborn child. Entrekin says this must end. Women are being prosecuted for actions that endanger their unborn children. Sheriff Entrekin says this problem is serious in Etowah County. Some fifty babies are born at Gads den Regional Medical ...
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Judge tosses ex-BP executives obstruction charge
NEW ORLEANS -; A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in ...
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Questions linger in shooting of NY college student
The godfather of a New York college student accidentally killed by a police bullet says the officer should have negotiated instead of firing as an armed intruder held the young woman ...
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Tornado Hits 2 Schools Flattens Neighborhood in Moore
Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was ...
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Legislature approves bond issue for storm-damaged schools
The bill provides $15 million for Mobile's Murphy High School, which was damaged by a tornado on Christmas Day. There is also money for five other schools damaged by tornadoes on April 27, 2011. Three schools in the Tuscaloosa area will benefit, with $3 million for Alberta City Elementary and $2.5 million each for University Place Elementary and Holt Elementary. Phil Campbell High School ...
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Alabama auctions off broken BCS trophy
A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its ...
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Bond issue approved for Alabama schools
The bill provides $15 million for Mobile's Murphy High School, which was damaged by a tornado on Christmas Day. There is also money for five other schools damaged by tornadoes on April 27, 2011. Three schools in the Tuscaloosa area will benefit, with $3 million for Alberta City Elementary and $2.5 million each for University Place Elementary and Holt Elementary. Phil Campbell High School ...
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Inmate dies after stabbing in Ala. prison
BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Department of Corrections officials are probing a fatal stabbing at the Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer. Officials say 54-year-old Anthony Jones was stabbed to death during a fight Sunday. Officials have identified 63-year-old Albert Evans as the suspect. Both were serving life sentences. The circumstances that led to the fight were unclear Monday. ...
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Museum guard sentenced to prison for child pornography
BIRMINGHAM - AL - A federal judge Monday sentenced a former museum security guard to more than eight years in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. U.S. District Judge C. Lynwood Smith, Jr. sentenced Loyd Jeffrey Hitt, 53, of Center Point, on one county of receiving child pornography between May 2009 and October 2012, and on one county of possessing child pornography within ...
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Ex-security guard sentenced on child porn charges
http://bit.ly/Z8JxvZ ) 53-year-old Loyd Jeffrey Hitt, of Center Point, was sentenced Monday in federal court. Hitt pleaded guilty to receiving and possessing child pornography in ...
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4-Year-Old Shot In Driveby Shooting
BESSEMER - AL - Bessemer Police investigating a shooting into an occupied vehicle, where a 4-year-old child was shot. Investigators say the shooting happened Sunday afternoon in the 3600 block of Jaybird Road in Brighton and continued onto Interstate 59 South into Bessemer. The child was taken to the hospital and listed in stable condition. Anyone with information should call the Bessemer ...
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Alabama schools get authority to hire security
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature has authorized city and county school systems to hire armed security guards to protect students. The Senate voted 21-0 Monday to go along with changes the House made to a school security bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Dick Brewbaker of Montgomery. The bill now goes to the governor for review. Some schools now have guards supplied by their ...
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Housekeeper gets 6 years in Pa. Ben bust theft
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen in suburban Philadelphia and reportedly worth $3 million. Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala., was living in Philadelphia when the bust was taken Aug. 24 from a home where she had worked as a housecleaner. She fled to Alabama with the bust and was arrested Sept. ...
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Portion of Highway 174 in St. Clair County washed away
ST. CLAIR COUNTY - AL - A portion of Highway 174 between Pell City and Odenville was washed away over the weekend due to heavy rainfall. The road is closed between Mineral Springs Road and Bowman Circle. The Alabama Department of Transportation expects the highway to reopen Tuesday ...
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Update Alabama House rejects Bentleys 2-year-delay Bentley responds
The Alabama House has rejected Gov. Robert Bentley's proposal to delay private school tax credits for two years. The House voted 57-10 Monday to reject the governor's proposal. Now the proposal goes to the Senate on the last meeting day of the legislative session. The new Alabama Accountability Act provides state tax credits of about $3,500 for parents who enroll a child in a private ...
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UA in the News May 18-20 2013
Sneak peek: Set designer takes SummerStock production to next level Florence Times Daily - May 19 One of the most well-worn phrases concerning theater was originally spoken by Jaques in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." "All the world's a stage," Jaques says, starting a monologue that's a meditation on human existence. Turned on its head, the phrase might have ...
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Two women charged with chemically endangering a child in East Alabama
GADSDEN-AL - Two Etowah County women have been arrested and charged with chemical endangerment of a child. Tiffanie Angelia Mitchell, 23, of Gadsden, was arrested on May 6 and is charged with one count of chemical endangerment of exposing a child to an environment in which controlled substances are produced or distributed. Breanna Latreace Wilson, 18, of Attalla, was arrested on the same ...
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UA’s CCHS Event to Look at Diversity in Medicine
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. --The public is invited to learn how the face of medicine has changed over the years at a symposium hosted by The University of Alabama’s College of Community Health Sciences. The event,';Through These Doors: Changing the Face of Medicine,'; will be held from11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.Tuesday, June 4,at the University Church of Christ,1200 Julia Tutwiler Drive. ...
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Mississippi Power names Ed Holland as president
The move comes after additional cost overruns were announced at the coal-fired power plant Mississippi Power is building in Kemper County. Mississippi Power's vice president of generation, Tommy Anderson, also recently left the ...
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Alabama National Guard infantry battalion comes home
Lots of smiles, hugs and kisses will make this Monday afternoon memorable for the families of returning members of the Alabama Army National Guard's 1/167th Infantry Battalion and subordinate units. The Talladega-based battalion has spent more than ten months active duty in Afghanistan. This battalion has played a role in every major American war since the Civil War. Homecoming events ...
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Alabama Department of Corrections Investigate Inmate Homicide
BESSEMER - AL - The Alabama Department of Corrections is investigating an inmate on inmate homicide. It occurred Sunday at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer. A spokesperson says Anthony Jones died of stab wounds received during a fight with another inmate in Housing Unit O. A prison made knife believed to have been used in the crime has been recovered. Jones was serving a life ...
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Alabama Democrats fail in expanding Medicaid
When the session began in February, Democratic legislators said their No. 1 goal was expanding Alabama's Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act. But they conceded on the session's last day Monday that their goal had failed. A bill to expand the program drew opposition from Gov. Robert Bentley and never went ...
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Alabama University Launches Cyber Threat Detection Company
In a private-public partnership, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has launched Malcovery, an intelligence company specializing in cyber threat detection, to help businesses protect themselves from cyberattacks. Malcovery uses patented forensic technology to identify the source and nature of immediate cyberattacks and analyze millions of cyberthreat angles to combat future crises. ...
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Birmingham police probe shooting outside nightclub
http://bit.ly/14jMAjQ ) that one person was shot Sunday morning near CC Nightclub on Bessemer Road. The victim's condition was not immediately known. There were several gun shells on the ground near the shooting. Birmingham police said they were questioning a man, but investigators were not sure of his involvement. Few other details were available early Monday. Information from: ...
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Tuscaloosa bypass remains contentious
The $250 million interstate bypass to the east of Tuscaloosa is moving ahead with infinite lethargy and recently became bogged down in further delays, which were made necessary in part by the fact that the project had become delayed and certain aspects of it were out of date.
It was decided by the city of Tuscaloosa in 1989 that they needed a bypass to the east to relieve some of the traffic on U.S. Highway 43 and U.S. Highway 82, both of which were reaching their carrying capacity and creating massive backlogs and congestion on Woolsey Finnell Bridge, which crosses the Black Warrior River. Read more
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