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After second glance at income, Alabama governor Bentley proposed chopping budget by AnnistonStar
Mar 04, 2011 |  1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Tax collections for the state Education Trust Fund in October through February rose 4.8 percent compared to the same period a year earlier, but state officials said a little digging showed that the news really wasn't so rosy. That not-so-rosy view was what led Gov. Robert Bentley to chop th...
Huntsville's Paul McDonald advances to 'American Idol's' Top 10 by AnnistonStar
Mar 04, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Well, there should be no doubt now. America, not just Huntsville or Alabama, loves Huntsville native/rocker Paul McDonald. With over 40 million votes cast nationwide, McDonald, the Huntsville High School and Auburn graduate, was selected to The Top 10 of "American Idol" during a dramatic sh...
Two charged in Houston Co. after seizure of 228 dogs, cats by AnnistonStar
Mar 04, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Houston County officials said two Gordon women are charged with misdemeanor cruelty to animals after authorities seized 228 animals from their property. The two, 66-year-old Pamela Andrews and 52-year-old Mary Ann Godfrey, both of Gordon, turned themselves in Wednesday. Read the full stor...
Auburn spends nearly $3M on BCS national championship trip by AnnistonStar
Mar 04, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Ever wonder how much it would cost to get a football team, coaching staff, school officials, cheerleaders and a band to a national championship and keep them there for up to nine days?  About $3 million.  Auburn spent $2,901,706 on its nine-day trip to Glendale, Ariz., in early January accor...
Man, daughter face charges connected to alleged sex abuse by AnnistonStar
Mar 03, 2011 |  1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
A 68-year-old man and his 35-year-old daughter have been arrested after the woman’s 15-year-old daughter allegedly was sexually abused by her grandfather and given alcohol by her mother, Southside police investigator Clay Johnson said. The man is charged with second-degree sex abuse and th...
Alabama legislative panel delays voting on illegal immigration bill by AnnistonStar
Mar 03, 2011 |  2 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
A legislative committee on Wednesday delayed voting on a bill under which an illegal immigrant would be guilty of trespassing, a crime punishable by as much as a year in jail, simply for being in Alabama. At a public hearing on the bill, supporters said they're tired of illegal immigrants taki...
Alabama may drop the DROP program by AnnistonStar
Mar 03, 2011 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Two things seem certain about the fate of Alabama's Deferred Retirement Option Plan. It will either be eliminated, or it will be changed significantly to save the state money. Read the full story from The Montgomery Advertiser.
Group of senators propose legislative pay cut to match budget cuts by AnnistonStar
Mar 02, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Instead of repealing a controver­sial legislative pay increase, a bi­partisan group of state senators said Tuesday that it will support a resolution that, beginning next year, would cut the pay of state leg­islators equal to the level of budget cuts declared by the governor. But some Republ...
Legislative Democrats vow they will fight public benefit cuts by AnnistonStar
Mar 02, 2011 |  1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Legislators reacted Tuesday to Gov. Robert Bentley’s first State of the State speech, a somber reality check that all is not well in the fiscal state of Alabama. “Join with me in leading our state by doing what we must do to budget responsibly,” Bentley said to close his speech to a joint l...
Man in custody in 10-year-old Gadsden capital murder case by AnnistonStar
Mar 02, 2011 |  0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
José Louis Ramirez was booked into the Etowah County Jail on a domestic violence charge in Gadsden on Aug. 5, 2001 — a month before José A. Garcia was killed in a drive-by shooting in Attalla. It was Stephen Hooks’ job to book him at the jail. Ramirez was in the United States illegally and ...

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