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Chris Haney thinks often about the little girl pinned under the big house.
He doesn’t think about what he could have done differently. He doesn’t dwell on the fact that there might have been just a few minutes between the time 13-year-old Angel Stillwell died and the time her body was freed from the rubble.
You have to put that stuff behind you, he said.
But he does often think about the things Angel missed.
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Tim Lockette
Tim Lockette is the assistant metro editor for The Star. He also covers education and business. Follow him on Twitter @tlockette_star
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The line of storms approaching northern Alabama has already proven deadly, but forecasters say much of the tornado threat will be gone by the time the storms reach the Anniston area.
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HB159 and HB160 wouldn't be give the governor unlimited ability to dip into the Education Trust Fund, but they would allow companies to hang on to some employees' withholding.
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Star writer Joe Medley was also named one of the top 10 sports columnists in the country by Associated Press Sports Editors.
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If not a demand, there certainly seems to be a need for teaching financial literacy
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It’s possible that for charters, test scores would mean different things for different schools. Charter schools have specialized academic goals, he said, and the terms of success will be determined in part by the school’s contract with its authorizer.
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Three people were seriously injured today in a two-vehicle collision that police said was likely caused by a driver rushing a passenger to the hospital. (Updated 4:44 p.m.)
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Lying mostly outside the bounds of the state’s two official budgets, there’s a thicket of taxes, fees, and windfalls that the state collects automatically and distributes with a rubber-stamp approval from the Legislature.
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Alabama GOP leaders, including Gov. Robert Bentley, have said that approving a charter school program is a high priority in the legislative session that begins Tuesday.
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Firefighters say someone set a fire that burned part of a mobile home on Glade Road in Saks around 8 p.m. Thursday.
The Anniston Fire Department responded within ten minutes to the call it received about the fire.
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Superintendent Joan Frazier said the school system is already planning to focus more on post-secondary work in the coming years. Part of that effort, she said, is driven by changes she expects to see in the tests used to judge schools.
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“This is an example of what managed care is supposed to do,” Gov. Robert Bentley said today, praising Sarrell as a successful nonprofit without elaborating on whether the visit inspired any policy ideas.
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Jim Miller, longtime director of Anniston’s Water Works and Sewer Board and a quiet, tireless worker on the structures that undergird the Model City, is this year’s choice for the Anniston Star Citizen of the Year award.
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Chen Shi, a former Jacksonville resident charged with murder in the 1996 death of a Jacksonville State University student, is pleading not guilty.
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In Bynum, the unincorporated community that hugs the gates of the depot, even the roadside vegetable man lives or dies by the whims of the Pentagon budget.
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