Daily Headlines, Friday, 4/30/2010

Montgomery Advertiser – Ala. teachers’ health care costs may rise

Montgomery Advertiser – Rallies will push Smith for ballot

Montgomery Advertiser – Hammett: Bingo legislation was proper

Montgomery Advertiser – Consumer cash pumping life into corporate America

Montgomery Advertiser – Advertiser Editorial: Montgomery Police charge one of their own

Birmingham News – Trail of James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., traced in Birmingham

Birmingham News – Archibald: Witherspoon dives headlong into buzz saw

Birmingham News – 117 jobs lost as North Birmingham McWane pipe plant idled

Birmingham News – Former Stillman College President Cordell Wynn dies in Tuscaloosa at age 83

Birmingham News – Morris police officer fires shots after driver tries to hit officer

Birmingham News – ‘Low-tech’ explosive device thrown at Irondale patrol car

Press-Register – BP’s green image dirtied by rig explosion, Gulf of Mexico oil spill (with videos)

Press-Register – Latest on spill landfall: Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico hits coast with pelicans, otters, fragile marsh in path

Press-Register – Baldwin County Economic Development Alliance wins national recognition

Press-Register – Bayou La Batre shrimper sues BP over Gulf Coast oil spill (full report)

Press-Register – Sex, contraband jail scandal in Escambia County leads to 10 arrests

Press-Register – Larger oil leak changes equation for offshore drilling and politicians

Press-Register – Editorial: Another disaster bungled

Tuscaloosa News – UA tops federal earmarks list

Tuscaloosa News – County’s air quality given an ‘F’

Tuscaloosa News – Response to oil leak leaves sinking feeling

Florence TimesDaily – Couple adopt woman after reading her story in paper

Florence TimesDaily – State delegation travels to India

Florence TimesDaily – Volunteers plan to restore crypt

Florence TimesDaily – Non-tenured teachers laid off, a common practice for schools

Anniston Star – The cost of improvement

Anniston Star – Phillip Tutor: Don�t like Riley? It could be worse

Anniston Star – Paul Rilling: Seeking fairness in Sarrell Clinic reporting

Anniston Star – James L. Evans: A national day of prayer

Decatur Daily – Cheers for those 12 years of living

Decatur Daily – Corridor X a 30-year commitment

Gadsden Times – County gets poor air rating

Gadsden Times – Glencoe woman died of natural causes

Associated Press – Bessemer Police to get forfeiture cash

Associated Press – Study: Alabama income taxes top at poverty line

New York Times – Democrats Tweak Bank Bill to Preclude Bailouts

Washington Post – Record numbers of GOP women campaigning for House seats

Los Angeles Times – Bally Technologies reports lower 3rd-quarter profit …