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Fort Payne shooting victim wrecks driving to hospital by AnnistonStar
Mar 30, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man wanted for questioning in the shooting of a Fort Payne man who wrecked his car when he lost consciousness while driving himself to the hospital. Jeffery Steven Williams, 33, apparently lost consciousness from blood loss when he wrecked on...
Fairhope mayor, police chief accuse each other of using private account for parties by AnnistonStar
Mar 30, 2011 |  2 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
After the city’s police chief accused Mayor Tim Kant on Monday of using a private bank account called Friends of Fairhope Police to hold parties for “political friends,” Kant said he had filed a state ethics complaint against the police chief months ago about the same account.  “The real issue...
Alabama House passes bill to spare Medicaid, few other agencies from looming cuts by AnnistonStar
Mar 30, 2011 |  0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Medicaid and a few other agencies would be shielded from looming cuts in budgeted General Fund spending under a bill passed Tuesday by the House of Representatives. The House voted 97-1 for the bill, which passed the Senate last week. But the House made a change to the bill, and the Senate adj...
Etowah County Courthouse evacuated after bomb scare by AnnistonStar
Mar 29, 2011 |  0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The Etowah County Courthouse was evacuated after a bomb threat was called in at 9 a.m. More than a dozen law enforcement officers searched the building, and the Gadsden Fire Department responded. The Gadsden Bomb Squad did not respond. The Judicial building and Sheriff’s Office remained open...
Beware, Alabama: List says state is among most disaster-prone by AnnistonStar
Mar 29, 2011 |  0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The website that two years ago declared Huntsville the nation's best city brought some less enthralling news Monday. Based on the past 10 years in which the state has been ravaged by hurricanes and tornadoes, Alabama has been named the nation's seventh most-at-risk state for disasters. Re...
Forever Wild extension to be considered in Alabama Senate committee hearing by AnnistonStar
Mar 29, 2011 |  0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
A bill that would extend the life of Forever Wild, Alabama's land acquisition and preservation program, will be the subject of a Senate committee hearing Thursday in Montgomery. The hearing was requested by the Alabama Farmers Federation, or Alfa, which is arguing against the reauthorizatio...
Alabama prison bills may save state $106 million over 5 years by AnnistonStar
Mar 28, 2011 |  3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
A broad package of sentencing and corrections reform bills aims to reduce the state prison population, then use the savings to bolster supervision of convicted felons and improve public safety, said Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb. "It's the theory of reinvestment," Cobb said. You invest the sa...
Cuts in corporate tax loopholes could save Alabama tens of millions, Gov. Robert Bentley's office says by AnnistonStar
Mar 28, 2011 |  1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Gov. Robert Bentley within a few days will unveil plans that could raise tens of millions of dollars a year for state budgets by closing corporate tax loopholes, state Finance Director David Perry said. Perry declined to give specifics on which loopholes could be closed, but said they involv...
Regions moves to 14th largest American bank by AnnistonStar
Mar 25, 2011 |  1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Regions Financial Group is now the 14th largest bank in the United States by assets, according to SNL Financial, a financial analysis firm based in Charlottesville, Va. The Birmingham-based owner of Regions Bank moved up one spot on the list, displacing Citizens Financial Group, a Rhode Island-b...
Etowah County has chance at emergency food, shelter funding by AnnistonStar
Mar 25, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Etowah County has the opportunity to receive funding from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the area. Funding is neither currently available, nor guaranteed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s fiscal year appropriation h...

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