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Sex offenders’ home rules to be re-evaluated
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After serving his prison sentence for rape, Jeffrey Seagle tried to find a place to live. But with no fixed address and no family or friends able to take him in, Alabama’s sex offender law kept him behind bars.
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August 30th, 2010
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Dining Dollars lawsuit comes years after controversy began
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Considering the brouhaha 14 years ago when the University of Alabama announced students would have to pay for campus-cooked food each semester, it may be surprising it took so long for anyone to challenge the school in court.
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August 30th, 2010
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Cuba adopts free-market laws
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Cuba has issued a pair of surprising free-market decrees, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years — potentially touching off a golf-course building boom — and loosening state controls on commerce to let islanders grow and sell their own fruit and vegetables.
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August 28th, 2010
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Former students sue UA over Dining Dollars
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Two former University of Alabama students have sued the university, contending that its mandatory food fee, called Dining Dollars, violates state law.
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August 24th, 2010
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Rural junk law has flaw: no policing
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The Tuscaloosa County Commission spent almost four years scrutinizing and debating an ordinance to regulate nuisances across the unincorporated area of the county.
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August 22nd, 2010
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Spence qualifies for DA ballot in Nov.
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Robert Spence, who withdrew at the last minute from the Democratic primary ballot for Tuscaloosa district attorney, has qualified as an independent candidate for the November general election.
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August 21st, 2010
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FBI tracked desegration suit against Bryant, Alabama
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The FBI, apparently with the approval of then-director J. Edgar Hoover, was secretly keeping an eye on a civil rights lawsuit filed by blacks against Paul "Bear" Bryant during the 1970s.
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August 19th, 2010
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City Council leaves laws on texting, pseudoephedrine up to the state
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The Tuscaloosa City Council will leave laws against texting while driving and requiring a prescription for pseudoephedrine up to the Alabama Legislature.
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August 18th, 2010
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Alabama GOP agenda includes Arizona immigration law
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Republican candidates for the Alabama Legislature have endorsed a set of goals that includes an Arizona-style immigration law and a law prohibiting the federal government from compelling any Alabamian to participate in a health care system.
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August 16th, 2010
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AG candidates ready to jump into bingo issue
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With the two candidates for governor saying they’ll disband the anti-gambling task force, the attorney general candidates’ legal and personal views about electronic bingo machines move to the front of Alabama’s political landscape.
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August 15th, 2010
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Tuscaloosa attorney competing in ‘She’s Got the Look’ on TV Land
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As a former Mrs. America, Tuscaloosa attorney Julie Love Templeton is used to smiling for the camera.
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August 15th, 2010
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Federal court reinstates Ala. sex offenders’ lawsuit
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August 13th, 2010
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Ala. AG sues BP, others over oil spill
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Alabama’s attorney general is suing BP and others over the Gulf oil spill because he says the oil company has broken too many promises about accepting responsibility for the disaster.
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August 13th, 2010
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County schools' metal detector policy may change
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The Tuscaloosa County Board of Education is considering a new policy that would allow law enforcement officers and trained county school system employees to operate metal detectors.
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August 12th, 2010
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Anti-government ‘sovereign citizens' numbers on the rise
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They call themselves sovereign citizens, U.S. residents who declare themselves above state and federal laws.
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August 12th, 2010
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New Orleans judge to handle most Gulf spill suits
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A federal judge in New Orleans has been picked to preside over more than 300 lawsuits filed against BP PLC and other companies in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.
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August 10th, 2010
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Poole, Allen make their cases
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Democratic incumbent Sen. Phil Poole and his Republican challenger in state Senate District 21, state Rep. Gerald Allen, went at it for more than an hour Monday night during a sometimes-contentious forum in which the two veteran lawmakers put forth two very different ration-ales for their candidacies.
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August 10th, 2010
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Va. nun’s death rallies anti-immigration forces
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In Arizona, the shooting death of a rancher blew the lid off simmering anger over border security and helped solidify support for a tough new immigration law.
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August 9th, 2010
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Kagan becomes one of 3 women on top court
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At least once a term for 13 years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalled, some lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court would mistake her for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, or vice versa.
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August 8th, 2010
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Delaware Jackson bought for $10M
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The Tuscaloosa Housing Authority has agreed to sell the Delaware Jackson Apartments, a vacant public housing complex near the University of Alabama, to an Ohio company for more than $10 million.
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August 6th, 2010
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Groups side with Daniel Moore
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Two media organizations on Monday asked to argue alongside sports artist Daniel Moore in the long-running lawsuit between the painter and the University of Alabama.
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August 3rd, 2010
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Flurry of appeals linked to DNA law
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Armand Joseph Jackson has been behind bars for the past 28 years. Tests on a pair of stockings could set him free.
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August 1st, 2010
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Suit claims bingo raids thwart black voters
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Local politicians in Greene and Macon counties have joined to file a federal lawsuit claiming that Gov. Bob Riley’s bingo raids are perpetuating racial injustice by thwarting the intent of black voters.
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August 1st, 2010
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