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City won’t withdraw Bryce suit immediately
- By Adam Jones
Staff Writer
TUSCALOOSA | The Wednesday announcement that Bryce Hospital would remain in Tuscaloosa is what local elected leaders wanted, but a lawsuit the city filed to keep Bryce here won’t be withdrawn right away.
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December 31st, 2009
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Artist appeals judge's ruling
- By Adam Jones
Staff Writer
Despite the initial reaction that sports artist Daniel Moore essentially won a lawsuit brought against him by the University of Alabama, the painter, not UA, will appeal the judge's decision.
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December 30th, 2009
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Lawmakers eye bingo in budget crisis
- By Dana Beyerle
Montgomery Bureau Chief
The state budgets are in such dismal shape that a move to legalize electronic bingo could gain traction in the 2010 session of the Legislature, a leading lawmaker said Tuesday.
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December 30th, 2009
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Fewer in law enforcement die on job in 2009
- By Larry Margasak
The Associated Press
Law enforcement deaths this year dropped to their lowest level since 1959, while the decade of the 2000s was among the safest for officers — despite the deadliest single day for police on Sept. 11, 2001.
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December 29th, 2009
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Airline attack suspect claims ties to Yemen, al-Qaida
- By Eric Schmitt and Eric Lipton
N.Y. Times News Service
The 23-year-old Nigerian man who was charged on Saturday with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas told investigators he had obtained explosive chemicals from a bomb expert in Yemen associated with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a law enforcement official said.
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December 27th, 2009
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Judge dismisses suit over contract
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By Bob Johnson
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY | A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by legislators trying to block a $13 million unbid computer contract signed by Republican Gov. Bob Riley.
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December 24th, 2009
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Police Blotter: December 20
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Arrests
Friday
Charles Harris, 65, 5700 block of McFarland Boulevard, was charged with second-degree theft of property. Bail was set at $2,500.
Edgardo Villalovas Acosta, 27, 3400 block of University Boulevard, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and unlawful carrying of a pistol. Bail was set at $19,000.
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December 22nd, 2009
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State to consider charter school law
- By Dana Beyerle
Montgomery Bureau Chief
MONTGOMERY | Gov. Bob Riley will ask the Legislature to pass a charter school law to boost Alabama’s chances at getting some of the $175 million in federal stimulus money that will be competitively available beginning next month.
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December 20th, 2009
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Ex-Mobile lawyer charged with stealing $90,000
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MOBILE | A former Mobile lawyer is accused of stealing $90,000 from the estate of a client’s husband and spending part of the money on a diamond ring.
Mobile County assistant district attorney Geoffrey Alexander said J. Gullatte Hunter III, 49, was arrested Thursday and charged with first-
degree theft of property.
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December 19th, 2009
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Judge to rule soon on unbid contract
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By Phillip Rawls
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY | A judge said Thursday that he would rule soon on Gov. Bob Riley’s request to throw out a lawsuit filed by Democratic legislators challenging an unbid computer contract signed by the Republican governor.
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December 18th, 2009
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Court hearing set on unbid Alabama computer contract
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A judge says he will rule soon on a request by Gov. Bob Riley to dismiss a lawsuit filed by legislators challenging a computer contract issued by Riley's administration.
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December 17th, 2009
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Book by law student seeks to expose bad grammar
- By Wayne Grayson
Staff Writer
Sharon Eliza Nichols' quiet, polite voice doesn't sound like it belongs to the type of person who would author a book called “I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar.” But when Nichols begins to talk about the experience of writing a book, a more fun, even mischievous, side comes out.
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December 17th, 2009
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Lawsuit, pending sewage treatment permit slow Greene County site
- By Jason Morton
Staff writer
An ongoing lawsuit is seeking to halt construction of a new bingo operation in Greene County.
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December 16th, 2009
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$1.1 trillion bill heads to Obama
- By Jim Abrams
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON | The Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans’ programs.
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December 14th, 2009
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Gun laws getting looser in U.S.
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By Erik Schelzig
The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
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December 13th, 2009
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Gun laws are getting looser across much of US
- Erik Schelzig, The Associated Press
It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.
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December 12th, 2009
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Alabama gets third accredited law school
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MONTGOMERY | Alabama now has a third accredited law school.
The American Bar Association has put its seal of approval on Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law in Montgomery. Previously, only the University of Alabama and Samford University law schools had ABA accreditation in Alabama.
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December 11th, 2009
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Ala. attorney general now highest paid
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By Phillip Rawls
The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY | Alabama’s Troy King is now the nation’s highest paid state attorney general, at $168,000, thanks to a California pay cut and a 1969 Alabama law that set the office’s salary.
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December 10th, 2009
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$3B to end dispute with Indian tribes
- By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
The Obama administration Tuesday proposed spending more than $3 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit with American Indian tribes that claim they were swindled out of billions of dollars in royalties for oil, gas, grazing and other leases.
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December 9th, 2009
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Runoff set in Birmingham mayoral race
- By Jay Reeves
The Associated Press
An Ivy League lawyer and a county commissioner will meet in a runoff to replace Larry Langford, who was convicted in a federal bribery scheme and automatically removed from office.
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December 9th, 2009
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State could lose millions in tobacco money
- By Dana Beyerle
Montgomery Bureau Chief
MONTGOMERY | Alabama will have to prove it is upholding its end of the national tobacco settlement, but if lawyers cannot do so, the state may lose hundreds of millions of dollars that support vital social services.
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December 7th, 2009
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Officer killed had ties to UA
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Staff, wire report
A Pelham police officer shot and killed during a traffic stop on Interstate 65 late Thursday night began his law enforcement career at the University of Alabama Police Department, where he worked for nearly four years.
Philip Davis, 33, was with the department between July 1998 and April 2002, said UA spokeswoman Cathy Andreen.
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December 6th, 2009
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Suspect in officer killings eludes law in Seattle area
- By Gene Johnson
The Associated Press
Using search dogs and going door to door, hundreds of police intensified the hunt Monday for the man wanted in the coffeehouse killings of four officers after a SWAT team came up empty-handed in a raid on a house where he was thought to be holed up.
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December 1st, 2009
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