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Search continues for Sylacauga man by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Area law enforcement agencies are still searching for a Sylacauga man reported missing two weeks ago. Lt. Jason McNeill, chief investigator for the Sylacauga Police Department, said they followed several leads and tips received since Shep Deon Leonard’s disappearance. Read more: The Dai...
2 workers accused of stealing 48 pounds of marijuana from Florence evidence locker by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Two men who were working on renovations at the Florence Police Station are in jail after they were accused of taking 48 pounds of marijuana from the evidence locker. Scott Raymond Burgert, 45, Old Cloverdale Road, Florence, and Bradley Thomas Jones, 40, Calhoun Street, Florence, are both ch...
Electronic bingo machines to leave Alabama by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The three major gaming equipment companies have reached an agreement with Attorney General Luther Strange to pull their electronic bingo machines out of the state -- a move Strange said he hopes signifies the end of the bingo controversy that has engulfed Alabama for the past several years. ...
Alabama among least active states, says Centers for Disease Control by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Alabama is one of the least active states in the U.S., a study from the Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday.  But while more than 29 percent of state residents dedicate no leisure time to physical activity, according to the report, Baldwin County is the state’s most active area. R...
AU making plans to rescue trees, backup plans for replacement by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Gary Keever isn’t ready to pull the plug on the poisoned, historic live oak trees at Toomer’s Corner. But the Auburn University professor of horticulture has a backup plan, just in case. “We’ve had offers from people in Florida and Birmingham that plant huge trees,” Keever told the Opelika-...
Woman stabbed in fight over man dies; accused attacker charged with murder by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A woman stabbed early this afternoon in south Mobile County in what Mobile County sheriff’s deputies said was a dispute over a man died this evening.  Sheriff’s spokesman Lori Myles said Jessica Matthews was stabbed in the lower back during the fight shortly after noon and was airlifted to a l...
Census information release will begin reapportionment by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday said it will release Alabama’s 2010 population numbers next week, kicking off the legislative process to redraw federal and state election districts. Redistricting is one of the most political of events for lawmakers. Read the full story from The Gadsde...
Proposed cuts put weather service at risk by AnnistonStar
Feb 18, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
As Alabama approaches its peak tornado season and its hurricane season, proposed funding by Congress could slash the budget of the National Weather Service by nearly one-third. A continuing budget resolution proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives last Friday would force work furloug...
Harvey Updyke linked to poisoned Toomer's Corner trees by voice mail to Auburn professor, police report by AnnistonStar
Feb 17, 2011 |  0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Auburn police more than a week ago had tracked down Harvey Updyke, the man now charged with criminal mischief in the poisoning of the oak trees at Toomer's Corner at Auburn University, by tracing a telephone voice mail to a  turfgrass management professor, according to court documents.  The ma...
Alabama man arrested after meeting South Carolina teen he met on Internet by AnnistonStar
Feb 17, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
An Alabama man was arrested by local authorities after they say he drove to Woodruff to meet a 14-year-old girl he met on the Internet. Randall Patrick Duffell, 25, of 742 Greenleaf Road, Honoraville, Ala., has been charged by the Woodruff Police Department with lewd act on a minor and cont...

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