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		<title>Lawmakers reach tax compromise, seek special session on Ala. county crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The sheriff in Alabama&#8217;s most populous county may call for the National Guard to help maintain order, a spokesman said Tuesday, as a judge cleared the way for cuts in the sheriff&#8217;s budget and lawmakers reached a compromise they hope will end the budget crisis.

Jefferson County&#8217;s state legislators asked for a hasty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get in line: Budget cuts take hold in troubled Alabama county; legislators work on solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The first day of a major government cutback in Alabama&#8217;s most populous county has been marked by lengthy waits for routine courthouse business.

Long lines extending outside the building formed Monday at Jefferson County courthouses in Birmingham and Bessemer. People waited hours to do things like renew their car tags.
Jefferson County&#8217;s government offices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama&#8217;s most populous county braces for mass furloughs, service cuts amid financial crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — As a government shutdown loomed, residents of Alabama&#8217;s most populous county lined up Friday to renew their car registrations and settle their tax bills.

By Monday, at least a quarter of the county&#8217;s 3,600 employees will be on unpaid leave and many county offices will be closed or cutting back hours.
The county, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vino no-no: Alabama ban of California wine with naked nymph on label becomes a marketing tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Rawls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama&#8217;s ban on a wine that features a nude nymph on the label became a business opportunity for a California vintner who is preparing a marketing campaign to capitalize on being &#8220;Banned in Bama.&#8221;

The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board recently told stores and restaurants to quit serving Cycles Gladiator wine because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ga. woman arrested and charged after police find pound of meth worth $13,000 in her bra</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CROSSVILLE, Ala. — A 37-year-old Georgia woman was arrested and charged with padding her bra with methamphetamine. DeKalb County, Ala., Sheriff Jimmy Harris said the woman was arrested Tuesday and charged with trafficking in controlled substances.

Harris said authorities pulled the woman over for a traffic violation and searched her car. During a pat down, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA engineers deny that human space flight program, Constellation, is too risky, expensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Engineers designing NASA&#8217;s next moon rocket denied Wednesday that the human space flight program dubbed &#8220;Constellation&#8221; is too expensive, too risky and would unnecessarily delay man&#8217;s return to space.

The engineers defended their work to a committee appointed by President Barack Obama to review what&#8217;s planned once the current shuttle program is retired.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA engineers, managers defend rocket design to Obama space flight panel meeting in Ala.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Engineers designing NASA&#8217;s next moon rocket are defending their work to a committee appointed by President Obama to review the nation&#8217;s human space flight plans.

Critics argue that the program dubbed Constellation is too expensive, too risky and will take too long to get back to space after space shuttle flights end next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panel reviewing NASA plans for human spaceflight holds public hearing at Ala. rocket center</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The panel reviewing NASA&#8217;s future plans for human space flight is convening for a session in Alabama.

The Human Space Flight Review Committee will hold a public hearing Wednesday in Huntsville at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.
The session will open with a statement by Robert Lightfoot, who is acting director of NASA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auburn University veterinary student studying in Japan vanishes during trip to Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUBURN, Ala. — An Auburn University veterinary student has vanished during a sightseeing trip to Thailand, and officials from the Alabama school are in Tokyo trying to find him.

University officials say 29-year-old Michael Griffin Harrie was last seen July 14 in Bangkok. He left for the trip July 7 from Japan, where he was participating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police defend using pepper spray, Taser on mentally disabled deaf man in Ala. store bathroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOBILE, Ala. — Officers who used pepper spray and a Taser to remove a man from a store bathroom found out only later he was deaf and mentally disabled and didn&#8217;t understand they wanted him to open the door, police said Tuesday.

A spokesman for the Mobile Police Department said the officers&#8217; actions were justified because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police in Ala. use pepper spray, Taser on mentally disabled deaf man who didn&#8217;t exit bathroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOBILE, Ala. — Police in Mobile, Ala., used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf, mentally disabled man who they said wouldn&#8217;t leave a store&#8217;s bathroom.

The family of 37-year-old Antonio Love has filed a formal complaint over the incident on Friday.
Police tell the Press-Register of Mobile that officers shot pepper spray under the bathroom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspect in killing of Florida panhandle couple cleared for extradition from Ala.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BREWTON, Ala. — A southern Alabama sheriff has told a newspaper that a man accused in the killing of a Florida panhandle couple has been cleared for extradition to Florida.

Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith told the Mobile Press-Register on Monday that the governor&#8217;s offices in both states have processed the extradition order for 28-year-old U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colonial BancGroup agrees to cease-and-desist order with regulators; shares fall</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Colonial BancGroup Inc. on Monday said it has agreed to a cease-and-desist order with federal and state regulators who are seeking to ensure the struggling bank holding company has adequate capital.

The announcement, which sent shares of Colonial BancGroup down 18 percent, came as the company awaits closure of two pending transactions it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama liquor agency says no to nude nymph on widely distributed California wine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A wine label showing a nude nymph is too racy for Alabama&#8217;s liquor control agency, which has told restaurants and stores not to sell the product.

The label on Cycles Gladiator wine, produced by Hahn Family Wines in Soledad, Calif., shows a vintage 1895 bicycle advertising poster with a nude nymph flying beside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride idles chicken processing plants in Ala., Ga.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATHENS, Ala. — Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride Corp. said Friday it would idle two chicken processing plants that employ almost 1,000 people in Alabama and Georgia as it cuts cost while trying to emerge from bankruptcy protection.

The company, based in Pittsburg, Texas, said it will close a plant in Athens, Ala., that employs 640 people within 75 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Scrushy bank accounts seized in effort to collect money owed HealthSouth stockholders</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/richard-scrushy-bank-accounts-seized-in-effort-to-collect-money-owed-healthsouth-stockholders-115951/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Richard Scrushy&#8217;s bank accounts have been seized in a bid to collect some of the $2.8 billion he was ordered to pay for a fraud that nearly bankrupted Alabama-based HealthSouth Corp.

Lawyers for HealthSouth shareholders said Monday papers were served on more than a dozen banks where Scrushy is believed to have accounts.
Those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ala. city plows hill beneath 1,000-year-old Indian site to get fill dirt for a Sam&#8217;s Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OXFORD, Ala. — Bucket loaders and bulldozers are tearing apart a hill that researchers call the foundation of an ancient Native American site to provide fill dirt for a Sam&#8217;s Club store, a move that appalls preservationists.

Tribal advocates and state officials say a large stone mound that tops the 200-foot rise was put there a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Dems, 2 ways to raise funds for Ala. gov&#8217;s race: Davis seeks NY money, Sparks holds fish fry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Rawls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Artur Davis&#8217; campaign to become Alabama&#8217;s first black governor is drawing notice as far off as New York, where a prominent attorney organized a top-dollar fundraiser at his swanky Manhattan penthouse. A rival Democrat, Ron Sparks, is also angling for funds far ahead of the party&#8217;s 2010 primary — by calling all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Alabama county banks on coal ash dumping for jobs, at a cost critics say is too high</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/poor-alabama-county-banks-on-coal-ash-dumping-for-jobs-at-a-cost-critics-say-is-too-high-112503/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UNIONTOWN, Ala. — Two-lane roads lined with weeds and trees seem to stretch forever in Perry County, where thousands of residents are poor even by Alabama standards and they don&#8217;t produce much for the outside world besides timber and catfish.

What Perry County has, though, is vacant land — hundreds of square miles of it. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States awash in weatherization money scramble to spend it; 10 times the usual amount allotted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Rawls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Ready or not, states are getting a tenfold boost in federal money to weatherize drafty homes, an increase so huge it has raised fears of waste and fraud and set off a scramble to find workers and houses for them to repair.

An obscure program that installs insulation in homes and makes them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physician at hurricane-battered Alabama bayou clinic picked for nation&#8217;s top doctor post</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desiree Hunter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — Battered and flooded by Hurricane Katrina, this coastal Alabama fishing village was in wreckage four years ago when Dr. Regina Benjamin began assessing her patients&#8217; needs. Trouble was, her little health clinic had been flooded and they couldn&#8217;t come to see her.

So she went to them.
She could be seen &#8220;going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee spots suspect&#8217;s toy gun and uses cricket bat to foil gas station robbery</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/employee-spots-suspects-toy-gun-and-uses-cricket-bat-to-foil-gas-station-robbery-107786/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BAY MINETTE, Ala. — Authorities in south Alabama say a gas station employee used a cricket bat to chase away a would-be robber who brandished a toy gun.

The Baldwin County Sheriff&#8217;s office says the suspect entered Bee Gee&#8217;s gas station near Bay Minette Saturday afternoon and tried to use the fake weapon to steal money.
Sheriff&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing arguments end in Ala. lawsuit accusing drug company of overcharging Medicaid programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Closing arguments have ended in the state of Alabama&#8217;s lawsuit against a California-based drug maker accused of cheating the state&#8217;s Medicaid program out of millions of dollars.

State attorney Jere Beasley told jurors Wednesday that Watson Pharmaceuticals purposefully overcharged Alabama from 1991 to 2005 and owes the state $23 million.
But an attorney for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA approves TVA plan to dump millions of tons of coal ash from Tenn. spill in Ala. landfill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation&#8217;s largest utility can dump millions of tons of coal ash from a Tennessee spill into an Alabama landfill, federal regulators said Thursday, despite criticism that the plan is unfair to one of Alabama&#8217;s poorest counties.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it would let the Tennessee Valley Authority ship dredged material about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman asks for new trial in corruption case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman is asking for a new trial following his convictions on bribery and other government corruption charges a few years ago.

Siegelman claims in court documents filed late Monday that the government&#8217;s key witness at his 2006 trial was heavily coached by prosecutors and FBI agents. Siegelman cites statements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woman who said she was on tracks &#8216;to clear her mind&#8217; has leg broken after being hit by train</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham police said a 22-year-old woman has suffered a broken leg after being hit by a train. Officer Lawrence Billups said the woman told police she was lying on the tracks &#8220;to clear her mind&#8221; when the train approached around 7 a.m. Sunday.

Billups said the CSX train was moving about 10 mph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former HealthSouth CEO Scrushy asks for new trial, citing selective prosecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy asked a judge to grant him a new trial Friday, saying he was a victim of selective prosecution when he was convicted of bribery in 2006.

Scrushy filed a motion claiming he and former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman were convicted in the federal government corruption case because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man arrested for driving under the influence allegedly tries to bribe officers to &#8216;go away&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/man-arrested-for-driving-under-the-influence-allegedly-tries-to-bribe-officers-to-go-away-91128/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/man-arrested-for-driving-under-the-influence-allegedly-tries-to-bribe-officers-to-go-away-91128/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ATHENS, Ala. — Athens Police Capt. Marty Bruce said a man arrested for driving under the influence faces additional charges after attempting to bribe two police officers to &#8220;go away.&#8221; The man was charged Monday after officers Josh Garlen and Cortny Barksdale responded to a call about a fight.

After resolving the dispute, Garlen and Barksdale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shrimp industry at low tide: Imports, fuel costs and low prices put bayou way of life in peril</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Garry Mitchell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — Ho Van Le, who trawls in the Gulf of Mexico aboard his 50-foot vessel Star Light, understands the price squeeze facing shrimpers as this year&#8217;s season gets under way amid a global recession.

&#8220;Diesel high, shrimp go down,&#8221; Le said.
Once a trade that kept bayou families afloat for generations, shrimping is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama man reports robbery, but police allegedly find a working meth lab in his home</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/alabama-man-reports-robbery-but-police-allegedly-find-a-working-meth-lab-in-his-home-82179/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HANCEVILLE, Ala. — A 33-year-old man ended up in jail after he called in a robbery and police allegedly found a working meth lab in his house. Police arrested the man for manufacturing of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

The man reported he had been robbed by his roommates, but Capt. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 secluded beaches from Coastal Living magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Looking for a beautiful beach without the crowds? Coastal Living magazine recommends 10 secluded beach destinations in its June issue.

They are Lanikai Beach, near Kailua, Hawaii; Bahia Honda State Park in Florida; Bahia Sucia on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico along Highway 301; Indian Beach, on Oregon&#8217;s Pacific Coast; Ocracoke Island, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama man arrested for trying to pass a fake $100 bill at McDonald&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MADISON, Ala. — Police have arrested a man for trying to pass a fake $100 bill at McDonald&#8217;s, leading to a find of $16,000 more in counterfeit C-notes. Police said the man was arrested Monday after an employee at McDonald&#8217;s reported someone trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill. A preliminary investigation led police to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Interview: Former NASA head casts critical eye on Obama team&#8217;s slowdown on new space plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ap-interview-former-nasa-head-casts-critical-eye-on-obama-teams-slowdown-on-new-space-plan-79938/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Michael Griffin has moved from the administrator&#8217;s suite atop NASA headquarters in Washington to the small, bare office of a new engineering professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Griffin, 59, wanted to remain as head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the job he held for almost four years under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ala. killer who taunted victim&#8217;s mom on Internet with grisly postings from prison is executed</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ala-killer-who-taunted-victims-mom-on-internet-with-grisly-postings-from-prison-is-executed-79498/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATMORE, Ala. — An Alabama death row inmate who taunted his victim&#8217;s mother with grisly, graphic drawings and writings on the Internet has been executed.

Sixty-two-year-old Jack Trawick was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. CDT Thursday. He was executed by lethal injection for the 1992 abduction and slaying of Stephanie Gach, a 21-year-old college student in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clerks beware: Hotels in 4 states hit by costly prank calls; Authorities say felonies possible</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/clerks-beware-hotels-in-4-states-hit-by-costly-prank-calls-authorities-say-felonies-possible-79169/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The calls have all been similar pranks: A frantic man urges hotel desk workers or guests to set off a fire sprinkler, sound an alarm or bust windows. It&#8217;s always the same: Do it now!

And, authorities said Thursday, they did. Eight cases have been reported in four states in recent days, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama governor says state won&#8217;t shelter as many out-of-state evacuees from hurricanes</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/alabama-governor-says-state-wont-shelter-as-many-out-of-state-evacuees-from-hurricanes-76846/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama has a message for its neighbors: Don&#8217;t count on us next time you need shelter from a storm. And it&#8217;s not because Louisiana evacuees made a mess last time they came.

Gov. Bob Riley said Tuesday that Alabama will take fewer out-of-state evacuees into shelters this year, so that shelter space will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama thieves steal ATM with backhoe, but plan backfires after ATM falls off flatbed trailer</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/alabama-thieves-steal-atm-with-backhoe-but-plan-backfires-after-atm-falls-off-flatbed-trailer-76693/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHENIX CITY, Ala. — Ripping an ATM from its concrete base isn&#8217;t easy. Losing it seems even harder. Thieves at an Alabama bank managed to do both. Phenix City Police Chief Ray Smith said the thieves used a stolen backhoe, a pickup truck and a flatbed trailer to pull off the job at a Wachovia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costs cited as Ala. decides to pull inmates from private prison where 2 escaped</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/costs-cited-as-ala-decides-to-pull-inmates-from-private-prison-where-2-escaped-75497/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama will remove its 250 inmates from a privately run prison where two convicts escaped last month and were only recaptured after a shootout with police in North Dakota.

But Alabama&#8217;s Prison Commissioner Richard Allen said Monday that money, not security, is the reason the state will end its contract with LCS Corrections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ala. officials: Tons of TVA coal ash, about 35,000 railcars&#8217; worth, coming to state landfill</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ala-officials-tons-of-tva-coal-ash-about-35000-railcars-worth-coming-to-state-landfill-73448/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ala-officials-tons-of-tva-coal-ash-about-35000-railcars-worth-coming-to-state-landfill-73448/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The nation&#8217;s largest public utility plans to dispose of millions of tons of coal ash from a massive spill in Tennessee into a giant landfill in one of Alabama&#8217;s poorest counties, state environmental officials said Friday.

Both the Alabama and federal officials say the ash from the Tennessee Valley Authority&#8217;s plant in Kingston, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muster up! Golden Age Games give aging veterans a chance to compete, share memories</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/muster-up-golden-age-games-give-aging-veterans-a-chance-to-compete-share-memories-72341/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/muster-up-golden-age-games-give-aging-veterans-a-chance-to-compete-share-memories-72341/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Johnson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — William Trumbly was in combat almost from the moment he hit the ground on Normandy Beach in 1944 shortly after D-Day until he was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. When the first shots were fired in his direction, he sought divine intervention.

Trumbly, now 87, a retired geologist from Norman, Okla., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama&#8217;s &#8216;Ten Commandments&#8217; judge, Roy Moore, running for governor again as Republican</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/alabamas-ten-commandments-judge-roy-moore-running-for-governor-again-as-republican-69161/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Rawls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama judge known for refusing to move a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the state&#8217;s judicial building is again running for governor, with his message Monday going beyond his longstanding call for the government to acknowledge God.

Ousted Chief Justice Roy Moore&#8217;s kickoff speech focused on economics, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Commandments judge&#8217;s Web site says he&#8217;s running for Ala. governor again in 2010 elections</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/10-commandments-judges-web-site-says-hes-running-for-ala-governor-again-in-2010-elections-69033/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/10-commandments-judges-web-site-says-hes-running-for-ala-governor-again-in-2010-elections-69033/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Rawls</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama&#8217;s Ten Commandments judge is running for governor again.

Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore announced Monday he is running as a Republican.
The 62-year-old Moore&#8217;s campaign Web site went up Monday morning, inviting supporters to sign a pledge to help elect him governor.
Moore ran unsuccessfully for the office in 2006.
When he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NTSB: 2 pilots in air collision over Alabama college campus planned the aerial stunts</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ntsb-2-pilots-in-air-collision-over-alabama-college-campus-planned-the-aerial-stunts-68391/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DECATUR, Ala. — A report says two pilots whose experimental planes collided in the air over a college campus in Decatur, Ala., killing one of them, had planned to perform aerial stunts while spectators took photos.

The National Transportation and Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the May 23 collision near Pryor Field in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drummond Company, Ala.-based coal firm, denies allegations in suit regarding Colombia violence</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/drummond-company-ala-based-coal-firm-denies-allegations-in-suit-regarding-colombia-violence-67456/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/drummond-company-ala-based-coal-firm-denies-allegations-in-suit-regarding-colombia-violence-67456/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 07:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama-based coal company on Friday denied claims made in a lawsuit that it funded a paramilitary group allegedly responsible for dozens of killings in Colombia, where the firm operates a large mine and railroad.

A statement released by the Drummond Company Inc. said the violence has plagued Colombia for decades and Drummond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama golfers hit back-to-back aces after both balls stop behind hole and spin back</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/alabama-golfers-hit-back-to-back-aces-after-both-balls-stop-behind-hole-and-spin-back-67318/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/alabama-golfers-hit-back-to-back-aces-after-both-balls-stop-behind-hole-and-spin-back-67318/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 04:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. — Pierre Fournier and Ken Osborne hit back-to-back holes in one — just not necessarily in that order. Playing in the same five-person group, Fournier teed off first, but his ball landed some eight feet past the hole, rolled back to the cup and didn&#8217;t go in until after Osborne&#8217;s had gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Old South&#8217; fraternity again facing complaints over Confederate flags, uniforms on campus</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/old-south-fraternity-again-facing-complaints-over-confederate-flags-uniforms-on-campus-61899/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/old-south-fraternity-again-facing-complaints-over-confederate-flags-uniforms-on-campus-61899/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 02:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A white fraternity that traces its roots to the Civil War and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is again facing complaints over its antebellum-themed events.

This time, University of Alabama alumnae are upset after Kappa Alpha Order members wearing Confederate uniforms and carrying battle flags paraded past a historically black sorority as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ala. Army officer accused in $2.8M bribery scheme with Georgia firm supplying Iraq, Kuwait</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ala-army-officer-accused-in-28m-bribery-scheme-with-georgia-firm-supplying-iraq-kuwait-57027/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 09:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An Alabama Army major and his wife are accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes from a Georgia contractor who received about $21 million for delivering bottled water and building fences in Kuwait and Iraq.

An indictment accused Maj. Eddie Pressley, 39, of Harvest and his 37-year-old wife, Eurica Pressley, of accepting cash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Businesses, homes damaged by storms across the South; officials keep close eye on flooding</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/businesses-homes-damaged-by-storms-across-the-south-officials-keep-close-eye-on-flooding-56366/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Reeves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — More than 100 homes and businesses were damaged in the South by strong winds, heavy rains and golf ball-sized hail Wednesday, and with more rain in the forecast, officials increased the flow of water through dams to ease swollen rivers, including the Mississippi.

Strong winds downed trees onto mobile homes in Arkansas, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More than 100 homes, businesses damaged in South by strong winds, heavy rains and hail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 03:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — More than 100 homes and businesses were damaged in the South by strong winds, heavy rains and golf ball-sized hail Wednesday, and with more rain in the forecast, officials increased the flow of water through dams to ease swollen rivers, including the Mississippi.

Strong winds downed trees onto mobile homes in Arkansas, where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern storms hit Alabama for 2nd day; possible tornado traps family in mobile home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 02:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUSKEGEE, Ala. — A day after heavy wind, rain and hail damaged homes across the South, torrential rains and possible tornadoes hit central Alabama on Thursday, flooding roads and briefly trapping a family when a tree fell on their mobile home.

No one was hurt, but authorities were forced to close a main road between Montgomery [...]]]></description>
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