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1st legal alcohol sale in Cullman by AnnistonStar
Feb 16, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The first alcohol license in the City of Cullman was issued Tuesday afternoon — and legal sales began just a few minutes later, at a Cullman convenience store. The Catoma Mart, at the intersection of Eva Road and Alabama Hwy. 157, was approved by the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Bo...
Doctors at Birmingham panel say reported concussions up since new high school rules adopted by AnnistonStar
Feb 16, 2011 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Children's Hospital of Alabama has seen about a three-fold increase in the number of concussions diagnosed since new policies on high school athletes and brain injury were adopted last year, doctors at the Birmingham hospital said Tuesday at a panel on the topic.  Private physicians say they'v...
Alabama home sales fell 4.4% in 2010 by AnnistonStar
Feb 15, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The state's real estate industry continued to struggle last year, with total home sales and median selling prices falling from their 2009 levels. According to new data from the Alabama Center for Real Estate, home sales fell 4.4 percent in Alabama in 2010. There were 36,234 home sold in 20...
Twenty one people arrested in northwest Alabama scheme to get drugs over the Internet by AnnistonStar
Feb 15, 2011 |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Twenty-one people in northwest Alabama face charges related to a scheme to use stolen and altered medical records and drivers' licenses to get prescription drugs from online pharmacies, according to a statement issued by federal and state authorities this morning. Four of those arrested wer...
scamming in anniston by wesdobber
Feb 15, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
attention anniston/oxford (and surrounding areas) !!  There is a grey dodge van bearing an Alabama emblem on the side panel with license plates #BQK2310 (carroll county GA tag).  They can be seen sitting on the intersection of 431 and I-20 holding a sign that says need help and gas... THIS IS A ...
Federal appeals court says former Alabama district attorney must register as sex offender by AnnistonStar
Feb 15, 2011 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
A federal appeals court today ordered that a former Alabama district attorney will have to register as a sex offender when he is released from prison next month. Former Franklin County District Attorney John Pilati was sentenced in March 2008 to serve 42 months in prison for fondling five m...
Luther Strange seeks ban on bingo machines at Alabama Indian casinos by AnnistonStar
Feb 15, 2011 |  1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has asked the federal agency that oversees Indian gambling to ban slots-like electronic bingo machines from the state's Indian casinos.  But officials with the National Indian Gaming Commission, as well as Gov. Robert Bentley, have said that such a ban c...
State not seeking death by injection in Talladega Co. murder case by AnnistonStar
Feb 15, 2011 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The state of Alabama will not seek death by lethal injection for Michael Joe White, Talladega County District Attorney Steve Giddens told potential jurors in the case Monday. Now, if he is convicted of capital murder as charged, White faces mandatory life in prison without possibility of par...
McCall first black leader of Department of Public Safety by AnnistonStar
Feb 15, 2011 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
The new director of the Alabama Department of Pub­lic Safety is a man who en­joys aviation and drag racing and is no slouch when it comes to history either -- be­cause he just made it. A month ago, Col. Hugh McCall became the first full-time black leader of a depart­ment that was once all-...
Obama budget would cut pediatrician training at Children's Hospital by AnnistonStar
Feb 15, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A federal program that gives Children's Hospital in Birmingham about $5.5 million a year to train pediatricians would be terminated by President Barack Obama's 2012 budget.   Eliminating the graduate medical education program for children's hospitals nationally would save $318 million a ye...

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