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Ex-commish to plead guilty in bond case

BIRMINGHAM -- A former commissioner will plead guilty to lying to grand jurors investigating bond deals that have Alabama's largest county on the brink of the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a prosecutor...

Pressure by GOP stops plan for inmate voter registration

By Jay Reeves • The Associated Press • September 19, 2008 BIRMINGHAM -- Alabama Prisons Commissioner Richard Allen stopped a voter registra­tion drive for inmates Thursday under pressure from the Alaba­ma Republican Party....

Fifth man arrested in slaying of 5 men in Ala.

By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A fifth suspect has been arrested in the slayings of five men believed to be illegal immigrants from Mexico who were beaten, electrocuted and slashed in an...

Ala. county takes more time to avoid bankruptcy (AP)

Commissioners in Alabama's most populous county decided Monday against making payments on a $3.2 billion sewer debt until Sept. 30, a move Gov. Bob Riley said allows time for talks to possibly avoid filing the largest...

Alabama Town Paying for Jews

In Alabama's Peanut Region, a $50K Ploy to Lure Big-City Jews to a Fading Small-Town Synagogue By JAY REEVES Associated Press Writer DOTHAN, Ala. September 8, 2008 (AP) Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to...

No. 13 'Bama sputters to 20-6 win over Tulane

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press Writer TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Javier Arenas returned a punt 87 yards for a touchdown and No. 13 Alabama held on Saturday for a shaky 20-6 win over Tulane, forced out of New Orleans a week...

NEWS -- FEMA may cover hotel costs for hurricane evacuees

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The federal government says it will pay the hotel expenses of some of the nearly 2 million people who fled their homes ahead of Hurricane Gustav, but exactly who will be eligible for assistance and how...

FEMA to pay evacuees' 'extended stay' hotel bills

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A Federal Emergency Management official says Hurricane Gustav evacuees whose homes remain uninhabitable because of power outages, damage or for other reasons related to the storm can have their hotel...

Evacuees kept at bay by checkpoints in New Orleans (AP)

AP - The road back home for the estimated 2 million Hurricane Gustav evacuees was slow going Tuesday, as those trying to filter into the coast were greeted by police checkpoints and National Guardsmen who told them it was...

New Orleans mayor: Please don't come home yet

NEW ORLEANS - Anxious evacuees across the country clamored to come home Tuesday after their city was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days...

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