Trinity wins state championship
Trinity rolled to the Class 3A championship Thursday, beating Piedmont 12-0 to sweep the title series.
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Legislature passes General Fund budget
In a flurry of activity Wednesday night, the Alabama Legislature passed a lean General Fund budget that counts on a special session and an election to get all its funding.
- 9:20 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Changes keep immigration law intact, add provision
Amid protests that extended to both chambers, the Alabama Legislature on Wednesday approved changes to the state's controversial immigration law that keep most of the law intact.
- 2:22 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama briefs: Bigger beer bottles bill becomes law
Gourmet beer that aficionados say is often only distributed in larger bottles can now be sold in the state of Alabama. Gov. Robert Bentley signed a bill on Wednesday to almost double the size of bottles beer can be sold in.
- 12:53 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Montgomery firefighters learn as old house burns
Flames enveloped the old wooden house on Maggie Street, and a few spectators walked up to watch it burn to the ground.
- 12:35 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, dies at 63
NEW YORK — Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as "Last Dance," ''Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girls" became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63.
- 1:21 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Endangered: White Democrats in Alabama Legislature
White Democrats opposed to new legislative districts designed by Republicans say they would turn the Legislature into a body of white Republicans and black Democrats.
- 2:45 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Education Trust Fund budget approved
The Alabama Legislature approved a $5.4 billion Education Trust Fund budget Wednesday evening that maintains class sizes without eliminating teacher positions.
- 2:45 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Lawmakers, Air Force discuss Maxwell C-130s
Alabama lawmakers met with top Air Force officials on Capitol Hill today to discuss the fate of C-130 cargo planes based in Montgomery.
- 12:37 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Businesswoman seeks District 7 council post
Lora Lee Boone, a Prattville business woman announces her campaign for District 7 council post.
- 12:40 AM, May. 17, 2012
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3 plead guilty to tax fraud schemes
Three people from the tri-county area pleaded guilty recently to charges related to tax refund schemes.
- 5:26 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Special session will include redistricting, immigration
Nine hours after ending the 2012 Regular Session, the Alabama Legislature reconvened Thursday for a special session that will take up reapportionment, financial incentives, needed taxes for the General Fund and changes to the state's immigration law.
- 5:24 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama authorities search for inmate reported missing
Law officers are searching for a man they describe as an escape from a state department of corrections center.
- 4:11 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Census shows whites lose US majority among babies
WASHINGTON — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
- 3:38 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama fan indicted on sex charge
Brian H. Downing, the Alabama fan seen on a video apparently committing sexual battery on an unconscious LSU fan after the BCS championship football game, has been indicted.
- 2:00 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Prosecutor: Alabama monk killed over food argument
A prosecutor says a Buddhist monk in southern Alabama beat to death his temple leader over an argument about food.
- 12:31 PM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama home brew bill fails to come up on final day
Alabama residents hoping to brew their own beer will have to wait at least another year.
- 10:55 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Attorney: Judge, lawyers drained Rosa Parks estate
DETROIT — An attorney claims a judge and two lawyers involved in a long-running dispute over civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' estate conspired to drain the estate's cash.
- 10:55 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama man dead after shooting by officers
Authorities say an Alabama man is dead after being shot by an officer.
- 9:50 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama governor to sign both state budgets
Gov. Robert Bentley says he will sign both state budgets passed by the Legislature late Wednesday night and will sign a bill to raise court fees.
- 9:49 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Governor lays out special session agenda
Gov. Robert Bentley is asking the Alabama Legislature to do more than draw new legislative districts in its special session.
- 9:47 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Work starts on Tuscaloosa housing complexes
Work has begun on two housing complexes downtown being built for students at the University of Alabama.
- 9:16 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama Legislature starting special session
The Alabama Legislature won't have but a few hours between its regular session and a special session.
- 6:53 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Alabama Legislature votes to raise court costs
The cost of going to court in Alabama is going up if Gov. Robert Bentley signs a bill approved by the Legislature shortly before the final gavel of the 2012 session.
- 6:52 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Bill about Confederate widows' tax named deadest
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama House has declared the winner of the chamber's annual "Shroud Award" to be Republican Rep. Jim Barton of Mobile for his bill that would have distributed money from a tax originally intended to help widows of Confederate soldiers to various parks.
- 6:50 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Legislature votes to merge 2 Alabama agencies
MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Legislature has passed a bill to combine the state Department of Labor with the Department of Industrial Relations.
- 6:49 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Storm conference views Hurricane Andrew's legacy
The ability to predict how bad a storm will be has eluded forecasters since Hurricane Andrew made a catastrophic landfall in South Florida two decades ago and it will remain a challenge for the next chief at the National Hurricane Center, the center's outgoing director said Wednesday.
- 6:48 AM, May. 17, 2012
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Bentley calls special session to address redistricting
Everyone expected a special session to begin today, but Gov. Robert Bentley literally waited until the last minute of the regular legislative session late Wednesday night to let legislators know he was calling them back for the special session to begin this morning.
- 1:24 AM, May. 17, 2012
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LifeSouth responds to HIV lawsuit
LifeSouth Community Blood Centers assured people Tuesday that the area blood supply is safe following a lawsuit filed Monday that contends a local man contracted HIV from blood that group provided.
- 2:23 AM, May. 16, 2012
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Legislature uncertain on special session
Gov. Robert Bentley is leaving Alabama legislators guessing about whether he will call them into special session a few hours after their regular session ends on Wednesday night.
- 1:05 AM, May. 16, 2012
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Council OKs west-side land buy
The Montgomery City Council approved the sale of land to a nonprofit organization that will renovate it, resell it and then use those funds to do the same with other west Montgomery properties.
- 11:57 PM, May. 15, 2012
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Judge dismisses child sex charges against Wetumpka man
A judge has dismissed child sex charges pending against a Wetumpka man, but the respite may be a short one.
- 3:16 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Bill on sagging pants dies in Senate
The Alabama Legislature faces a press of issues when it returns today, but drooping pants won't be one of them. A bill sponsored by Rep.
- 9:43 AM, May. 16, 2012
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Illness closes Children's Center
The Children's Center will be closed for three days after half of the facility's students and staff became ill with flu-like symptoms in recent days.
- 11:59 PM, May. 15, 2012
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Al Benn's Alabama: ASF a stunning stage to all the world
Sometimes we take things for granted, especially if they've become part of the landscape. Case in point is the magnificent Alabama Shakespeare Festival complex that's been a Montgomery jewel for more than a quarter century now.
- 11:48 PM, May. 15, 2012
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Festival teaches students about water conservation
Shouts for hot syrup and sprinkles filled a classroom at Auburn Montgomery on Tuesday as thrilled fourth-graders filled small cups with an ice cream float-like concoction.
- 11:57 PM, May. 15, 2012
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AHSAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
This week's AHSAA baseball and softball championship schedule (admission $10 per day, per sport):
- 11:52 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Trinity takes 3A opener from Piedmont
Trinity survived jams in the sixth and seventh innings to beat Piedmont 5-4 on Wednesday in the opening game of the Class 3A championship series at Paterson Field.
- 8:53 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Mars Hill Bible takes 2A opener
Glenn Irby pitched a five-hitter to lead Mars Hill Bible in a 5-0 win over Leroy in the opening game of the Class 2A championship series Wednesday.
- 5:30 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Senior prank leads to vandalism report at Prattville school
Prattville Christian Academy President Ron Mitchell said that a senior prank was the catalyst for a burglary and vandalism report school officials filed with local police.
- 4:58 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Montgomery sisters sentenced for tax fraud, identity theft
Two sisters from Montgomery each were sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for their role in a tax fraud and identity theft conspiracy, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
- 4:31 PM, May. 16, 2012
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DOT orders Alabama trucking company to shut down
HUNTSVILLE — The U.S. Department of Transportation says an Athens-based trucking company has been ordered to shut down because of federal safety violations.
- 4:24 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Alabama legislators to decide on budget in conference
MONTGOMERY — Both the House and Senate have agreed to let a conference committee work out differences between the two chambers' versions of a General Fund budget for non-education state services.
- 3:16 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Woman pleads guilty in wreck that killed Prattville man
A Lowndesboro woman pleaded guilty Wednesday morning to criminally negligent homicide in Autauga County Circuit Court in connection with a fatal 2011 auto accident that killed a 25-year-old Prattville man.
- 2:56 PM, May. 16, 2012
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Southern Writers’ Project Festival of Plays is this weekend at ASF
Friday through Sunday, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival will host the 21st Annual Southern Writers’ Project Festival of New Plays, a three- day weekend of readings of never-before-seen plays, food events and artist interactions. For complete descriptions of the plays and more information on the festival visit http://southernwritersproject.net
- 2:02 PM, May. 16, 2012
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