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Birmingham News - Kingston man shot by drug dealer says it won’t be the last time he puts his foot down against drugs in his community

Birmingham News - Vault of Tory records at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville offers insight into early days of what is now Alabama

Birmingham News - Tax collections for Alabama’s Education Trust Fund down falling at pace not seen in decades

Birmingham News - Alabama coal production declines

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: It’s sad that another former elected officeholder in Jefferson County, John Katopodis, has been convicted of federal crimes

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: The Fourth of July isn’t just a day to celebrate our country’s past, but its future

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Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama population still shrinks as suburbs bloom, Census data shows

Birmingham News - Jefferson County Commission asks Alabama Supreme Court to void ruling that prevents cuts to sheriff’s department

Birmingham News - Judge denies John Katopodis’ request for a new trial

Birmingham News - Tax collections for Alabama’s Education Trust Fund down falling at pace not seen in decades

Birmingham News - Judge denies slew of defense motions in Larry Langford case

Birmingham News - Ron Sparks lays out agenda in bid for governor’s chair

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Birmingham News - Former Birmingham, Alabama county commissioner John Katopodis found guilty in charity fraud trial

Birmingham News - One in three people in Alabama are obese, according to report

Birmingham News - Sen. Rodger Smitherman to ask Alabama to advance $25 million-$30 million for Jefferson County

Birmingham News - Anniston architect Julian Jenkins pleads guilty in 2-year college case to get charge reduced from bribery to aiding and abetting

Birmingham News - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb decides against run for governorship

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Birmingham News - Jefferson County Commission slashes budget by $31.7 million, to lay off hundreds

Birmingham News - Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale asks a judge to block the county’s attempt to cut $5.1 million out of the office’s budget

Birmingham News - Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford fires city attorney, calls department inefficient, sloppy

Birmingham News - Priscilla Dunn wins runoff for Alabama Senate 19 seat

Birmingham News - Jury deliberates in federal fraud trial of John Katopodis, former Birmingham councilman

Birmingham News - Attorney for Alabama Press Association says the Adamsville City Council broke the law when it held a closed session last week

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Birmingham News - Birmingham City Council set to OK draft budget with 7% for departments, but increases council office spending

Birmingham News - Jefferson County Commission members say they can’t settle job tax suit

Birmingham News - ADECA seeks stimulus money for 16 Alabama communities

Birmingham News - Judge Mark Fuller gives federal prosecutors until July 27 to argue on new trial for former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy

Birmingham News - Birmingham’s search for city school superintendent search complicated by board of education election

Birmingham News - Lawyers for Jefferson County, bond insurers differ on next steps in receiver case

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Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama planners seek grant for electric buses, vehicles to link neighborhoods to downtown

Birmingham News - State Rep. Merika Coleman and Rep. Priscilla Dunn face off in special Democratic runoff to fill state Senate District 19 seat

Birmingham News - First coral snake in 40 years seen in the wilds of central Alabama

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Alabama courts need to resolve quickly the fight over electronic bingo

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Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama City Council members remain vexed over Mayor Larry Langford’s budget numbers

Birmingham News - HOW THEY VOTED

Birmingham News - Jefferson County leaders get hurricane warning from the Alabama’s EMA chief

Birmingham News - Outside Looking In - Believe it or not, some doubt our smarts

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Jefferson County commissioners must agree on a budget cut plan to deal with loss of occupational tax

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Birmingham News - Alabama senators and representatives for Jefferson County seeking summer session to restore occupational tax

Birmingham News - Hoover draft budget pegs 8.5% drop in revenues

Birmingham News - Former Birmingham City Councilman Bill Johnson enters Alabama governor’s race

Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Larry Langford, council spar in lengthy budget talk

Birmingham News - Rove interview now set

Birmingham News - Alabama earmark survives challenge

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Birmingham News - Alabama Board of Education considers changes to state’s testing plan

Birmingham News - Naval officer Jonathan Pohnel, former Boston City Councilwoman Maura Hennigan vouch for generosity of John Katopodis

Birmingham News - Motorcycle ride to benefit northern Jefferson County volunteer fire department

Birmingham News - Jefferson, County Commissioner Bettye Fine Collins shelves budget-cut resolution

Birmingham News - Senate District 19 hopefuls Priscilla Dunn and Merika Coleman vie for money

Birmingham News - About 50 young lawyers volunteer to handle divorce cases free for those who can’t afford to pay attorney fees

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Birmingham News - Hundreds of Jefferson County workers face layoffs in new round of budget cuts

Birmingham News - Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties make EPA top 20 list for cancer risk from airborne pollutants

Birmingham News - SCLC demands action on Jefferson County crisis

Birmingham News - U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions criticizes Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor on gun rights

Birmingham News - John Katopodis did not explain questionable charity spending, witness says

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: High court’s denial means only the Alabama Legislature can save Jefferson County occupational tax

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Birmingham News - Cooper Green Mercy Hospital struggles to meet patients’ needs while reducing employees’ hours

Birmingham News - Homewood council seat open for applicants to fill post vacated by J.J. Bischoff, who is now mayor’s executive assistant

Birmingham News - Council, school board elections set for Aug. 25

Birmingham News - Ex-Birmingham charity director testifies in trial that John Katopodis didn’t show him financial records

Birmingham News - Birmingham school board hires search firm for next chief

Birmingham News - Alabama Sen. Rodger Smitherman calls meeting of Jefferson County legislative delegation to reach consensus on occupational tax bill

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Birmingham News - Alabama’s concerns with Voting Rights law get sympathy from Supreme Court

Birmingham News - Whooping cough outbreak in Walker County, Alabama

Birmingham News - Trussville schools chief voted second raise of 2009

Birmingham News - Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch credit rating agencies say Birmingham’s AA bond rating remains strong

Birmingham News - Alabama state representative Mary Moore calls on Birmingham mayor and council demanding action on disparity recommendations for more minority-owned companies to receive city business

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Press-Register - Free fish offered to get rid of mosquitoes

Press-Register - Fish farms facing foes

Press-Register - As economy falters, college tuition soars

Press-Register - Who’s filling moral void?

Huntsville Times - Afghan arrival sobering for ‘newbees’

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Birmingham News - Alice Martin made a name for herself as a hard-core prosecutor, difficult boss

Birmingham News - Justice Department approves Birmingham officials’ request to move election to Aug. 25

Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama council members rework mayor Larry Langford’s budget to restore nonproit funding

Birmingham News - HOW THEY VOTED

Birmingham News - John Katopodis fraud trial begins Monday

Birmingham News - Outside Looking In - Clean up Alabama before worrying about Australia, Troy King told

Birmingham News - Alabama urges unwed fathers to protect rights

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Birmingham News - Alabama audit flags Jefferson County commissioner Smoot

Birmingham News - ADECA chief asks Congress to loosen rules

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Hearing before the Jefferson County Personnel Board gives fired police officers a chance to justify their actions, if that’s possible, in suspect-beating case

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Is it expecting too much to have a fair, open and honest process’ in choosing an Air Force refueling tanker? Maybe

Press-Register - Alabama’s jobless rate up to 9.8 percent

Press-Register - Group seeks input for mock Alabama constitution

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Birmingham News - HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy ordered to pay company $2.87 billion

Birmingham News - U.S. attorney nominee Joyce Vance wins bipartisan support

Birmingham News - Jefferson County, Alabama cities’ legal options to ensure road maintenance slim, lawyer says

Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama woman sues city police, paramedics in son’s death after stun gun used

Birmingham News - Trustees expected to decide today on 9.4% tuition increase for University of Alabama System schools, 6.1% for Auburn University

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Birmingham News - Law expert says Jefferson County would fare worse in state court based on the recent federal ruling

Birmingham News - Birmingham receives flurry of bingo applications

Birmingham News - U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions lectures Senate on judicial philosophy

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Birmingham City Council needs to appoint best candidate, not just a caretaker

Press-Register - Former Orange Beach mayor makes deal on state charges

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Birmingham News - U.S. Attorney Alice Martin to resign Friday

Birmingham News - Birmingham City Council narrows finalists for District 7 seat to three

Birmingham News - Shelby County wants to clarify roads it will maintain

Birmingham News - Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford vetoes disparity study

Birmingham News - Birmingham area mayors see problems without Jefferson County road help

Birmingham News - Mountain Brook gets $4.37 million to help prevent floods

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Birmingham News - Alabama Rep. Artur Davis urges Obama to find middle ground on health care legislation.

Birmingham News - Louise Alexander pleads not guilty to ethics charges in her position as Bessemer councilwoman

Birmingham News - Former Alabama Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley endorses Rep. Artur Davis for governor, agrees to chair campaign

Birmingham News - Jeffco to vote on closing courthouses, 4-day week

Birmingham News - Some on Birmingham, Alabama, City Council want more time to discuss appointing new member

Birmingham News - Birmingham city election date still unsettled, week remains until early date possibility dies

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Birmingham News - Bessemer, Alabama councilwoman Louise Alexander will seek dismissal of ethics charges

Birmingham News - About 80 soldiers with Alabama’s 129th Medical Company will head to Iraq to operate a medical unit

Birmingham News - Jefferson County, Alabama pushes oversight panel to help end sewer debt crisis

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Birmingham mayor, City Council still write the budget the hard way

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Jefferson County commissioner was wrong to ever think taxpayers should pay for Orange Beach trip.

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Birmingham News - Jefferson County, Alabama pushes oversight panel to help end sewer debt crisis

Birmingham News - Decades of bickering lie between Jefferson County commissioners and state legislators

Birmingham News - HOW THEY VOTED

Birmingham News - Outside Looking In - New York Times takes offense at Alabama’s lack of public defense

Birmingham News - Jefferson County Commissioner Shelia Smoot holds rallies across 7th Congressional District

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Birmingham News - Alabama State University names three new vice presidents

Birmingham News - Alabama congressional delegation into stocks, real estate, documents show

Birmingham News - Birmingham lawyer Nicole Gordon Still named Jefferson County Circuit Court judge

Birmingham News - SEC says Birmingham-based investment firm made excessive trades

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: NCAA sanctions against the University of Alabama could have been worse, but the next three years on probation will be dangerous for the repeat offender

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: U.S. Rep. Artur Davis needs to adopt more reasonable stand on union’s card check bill

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Birmingham News - Alabama Death Row inmate Jack Trawick apologizes before execution

Birmingham News - Alabama’s Forever Wild moves toward buying land on Locust Fork River for preservation

Birmingham News - Jefferson County to vote on closing satellite courthouses and other cost-saving measures

Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama mayor’s aide Deborah Vance-Bowie threatens to sue city over councilor’s remarks

Birmingham News - Gov. Bob Riley appoints four new members to Alabama A&M board of trustees

Birmingham News - SCLC interim President Byron Clay promotes march against poverty

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Birmingham News - Alabama Attorney General asks state Supreme Court to set execution date for Death Row inmate

Birmingham News - Pressure eases in Birmingham’s search for a school superintendent as interim chief Barbara Allen extends her contract

Birmingham News - Auburn ranked among America’s Top 10 cities

Birmingham News - Jefferson County Commissioner Bobby Humphryes says more gets done in closed meetings

Birmingham News - Jefferson County senate delegation discussed the county’s occupational tax woes

Birmingham News - Former Alabama Sen. E.B. McClain will remain free on bond while fraud conviction appealed

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Birmingham News - 5 offered interviews for school chief post

Birmingham News - Jefferson County Commission unites on spending cuts

Birmingham News - U.S. District Judge David Proctor to decide after all whether to appoint receiver over Jefferson County’s sewer operation

Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Larry Langford spends $4,975 on laptops for the City Council

Birmingham News - Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told senators the Pentagon may be ready to seek new bids on the air refueling tanker in July.

Birmingham News - Shelby County expects no deficit at end of fiscal year

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Birmingham News - Alabama Gov. Riley accuses Supreme Court Justice Sue Bell Cobb of judge shopping in pending gambling case

Birmingham News - Officials criticize Jefferson County’s proposal to end building inspections as a threat to safety

Birmingham News - Ruling on judges deciding cases of contributors has little effect in Alabama

Birmingham News - Filmmaker Ellin Jimmerson, who is filming a documentary about migrants, was not deterred from finishing the film when her daughter was killed in a car hit by an illegal migrant

Birmingham News - Endangered darters struggling to rebound

Birmingham News - Locust Fork land purchase pushed by Alabama Forever Wild

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Birmingham News - Montevallo, Alabama developer Kenneth Carter sues Alabaster over stalled development

Birmingham News - Alabama teachers laid off despite promises stimulus money would prevent it

Birmingham News - Alabama State Troopers begin entering crash reports electronically with new eCrash system

Birmingham News - UAB could receive $80 million in federal-stimulus grants

Press-Register - Schools cutting from the top

Press-Register - Sentencing disparity distresses judiciary

Press-Register - Separate board for two-year colleges?

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Birmingham News - Jefferson County, Alabama district attorney says new Birmingham bingo rules will enrich more than charities

Birmingham News - 500 help Davis kick off campaign at Linn Park

Birmingham News - U.S. Rep. Autur Davis’ backing of pro-union bill complicates ties with Alabama business community

Birmingham News - HOW THEY VOTED

Birmingham News - OUTSIDE LOOKING IN What they’re saying about us

Birmingham News - Cultures meet and greet in Birmingham on first annual Day for World Peace

Birmingham News - Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions escalates criticism of Obama’s criteria for picking judges

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Birmingham News - Alabama says that tax refund soon will be yours

Birmingham News - Plan to merge two colleges is delayed

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Wellness programs are worth much more than $2 a month

Press-Register - GOP’s Campaign 2010 fundraising effort fails to pay off in state Senate battle

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Birmingham News - Jefferson County wants Securities and Exchange Commission to pressure banks over sewer-debt crisis

Birmingham News - SEC says Alabama two-year college officials used public money for plays, dinners, sporting events on New York trips

Birmingham News - Alabaster, Alabama officials discuss fire sprinkler codes for new homes

Birmingham News - Value of assets held by Alabama state Employees’ Retirement System drop by more than a third from September 2007 to March 31.

Birmingham News - Birmingham, Alabama Housing Authority sponsors economic summit

Birmingham News - Scott Stantis-A cryin’ shame

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Jefferson County should end all unnecessary travel

Birmingham News - OUR VIEW: Birmingham school officials shouldn’t have had to travel so far away to find qualified math, science teachers

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