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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Alabama

Alabama stories: 51 news summaries

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She's Dead, Suspect Said in Chat

Still not enough to hold anyone, judge ruled

Dec 21, 07 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Though the case has been closed in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, one of the men detained in her suspected murder wrote in an internet chat room that she was dead shortly after she vanished, an Aruba prosecutor has revealed. That evidence was used last month to rearrest... More »

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crime • Natalee Holloway • Alabama • Aruba • Joran Van der Sloot • Van der Sloot

Best States for Small Business

Some states love small business a little more than others. CNNMoney names the top 10

Nov 25, 07 2:54 PM CST
(Newser) - If you want your seed of genius to grow, plant it in the right soil. CNNMoney finds the most small-business-friendly states:
  1. South Dakota: No tax personal income, capital gains, corporate income, or corporate capital gains and low energy costs.
  2. Nevada: No income, capital gains, corporate income, or corporate
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Florida • Texas • South Carolina • Washington • Michigan • small businesses • Virginia • South Dakota • Alabama • Wyoming • small business • Nevada

Water Runs Out In Tenn. Town

Drought forces Orme to borrow from nearby town's hydrant

Nov 2, 07 7:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - If the Southeast drought’s effects on Orme, Tenn., are a sign of things to come, folks in Atlanta should start scheduling their showers. The rural home to 145 people has run completely dry, and what water gets trucked in can be used only between 6 and 9 pm. This... More »

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Southeast • Atlanta • drought • water • Alabama • Tennessee • emergency funding • Orme

Bar Association Seeks to Halt Executions

Rampant inequities & sloppy cases demand moratorium, says group

Oct 29, 07 5:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - After a three-year study of the death penalty in eight states, the American Bar Association is calling for a nationwide moratorium on executions until prevalent problems in the system are rectified. Defense attorneys nationwide are under-qualified and underfunded, cases are plagued by sloppy evidence gathering, and race influences sentencing, the... More »

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death penalty • Florida • Arizona • Ohio • Georgia • Pennsylvania • Alabama • Tennessee • legal defense • American Bar Association • National District Attorneys Association

Ban Stands on Alabama Sex
Toys, Finally

Much-challenged law will affect women unfairly, gripes writer

Oct 7, 07 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - After 9 years of court challenges, an Alabama judge has green lighted enforcement of a state law banning the sale of sex toys—the Supreme Court declined to hear the case last week—making Wired’s Regina Lynn cry misogyny. The statute does not outlaw Viagra to help men achieve... More »

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Alabama • Viagra • moratorium • sex toys • Viggo Mortensen • US Supreme Court

Fattest States in America

Aug 27, 07 8:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Trust for America's Health has come out with its fourth annual report on obesity.  And the losers are:
  1. Mississippi
  2. West Virginia
  3. Alabama
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obesity • health • childhood obesity • South Carolina • Arkansas • Kentucky • fat • Louisiana • weight • Michigan • Indiana • America • Alabama • Tennessee • Mississippi • Oklahoma • West Virginia

Wallace Assailant Earns Release

Man who fired bullet that paralyzed Alabama gov has served 35 years

Aug 23, 07 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man who shot George Wallace in 1972 and later called him a "segregationist dinosaur" will be released from prison later this year after serving 35 years of a 53-year sentence, the AP reports. The Alabama governor was forced to drop out of the presidential race after a bullet... More »

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prison • Alabama • assassination • release • George Wallace • Segregation • Arthur Bremer • shooting

Judge Tries Shame on Shoplifters

Wal-Mart thieves get ‘Scarlet Letter’ treatment

Jul 25, 07 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - A local Alabama judge has teamed with Wal-Mart to punish shoplifters with shame, making them don sandwich-boards reading “I am a thief; I stole from Wal-Mart” and parade in public, BusinessWeek reports. More than 20 culprits have received the sentence in recent months; the world’s largest retailer sees... More »

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Alabama • punishment • shoplifting • Wal-Mart

US Multinational Faces Human Rights Trial

Mining company accused of playing role in Colombian murders

Jul 9, 07 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A landmark trial addressing corporate culpability for human-rights violations committed on foreign soil gets under way this week, testing whether an 18th-century antipiracy law applies to modern business practices. At issue is the 2001 murder of three Colombian mining-union leaders, the Wall Street Journal reports, and under scrutiny is the... More »

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utility companies • federal courts • Colombia • Drummond Co. • Alabama • Birmingham • human rights violations

HealthSouth Boss Gets
7 Years for Bribery

Same stretch for Alabama governor

Jun 29, 07 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth, was sentenced to almost 7 years in prison for giving the governor of Alabama $500,000 in exchange for a seat on the state hospital regulatory board, the Wall Street Journal reports. Former governor Don Siegelman was sentenced to over 7 years, and... More »

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fraud • prison • crime • Richard M. Scrushy • Don Siegelman • HealthSouth • Alabama

Prosecutors Reopen Civil Rights Case

Alabama indicts ex-state trooper
in 1965 murder

May 11, 07 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alabama prosecutors have reopened a decades-old murder case that helped spark the seminal Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. James Bonard Fowler, 73, a former state trooper, turned himself in yesterday after being indicted the 1965 murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whom prosecutors say he... More »

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Jimmie Lee Jackson • James Bonard Fowler • Alabama • Selma to Montgomery • Voting Rights Act • civil rights

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