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Alabama Power, ADEM to challenge EPA regulation on smoke emissions by AnnistonStar
Apr 06, 2011 | 
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Alabama Power Co. and the state of Alabama are planning to challenge a policy reversal by the Environmental Protection Agency that further regulates how often industrial plants can emit a thicker, darker smoke.
The EPA in 2008, near the end of the administration of then-President George W... | 4 |
Alabama tax collections for education show little change from last year's pace by AnnistonStar
Apr 05, 2011 |
Tax collections for the state Education Trust Fund are showing little change from last year's pace, but key lawmakers Monday predicted the fund would grow enough in coming months to avoid yet another cut in budgeted spending.
Tax collections for the trust fund totaled $2.57 billion in Octob... | 5 |
Fired Dothan policeman arrested in Georgia by AnnistonStar
Apr 04, 2011 |
A former Dothan police officer fired from his job last year for using excessive force has been arrested in Forest Park, Ga., on a charge of impersonating a police officer.
David Darby was arrested by Forest Park police at Crazy Horse Saloon, not far from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Internation... | 6 |
Governor looking at toll roads to meet state's highway needs by AnnistonStar
Apr 04, 2011 |
A big chunk of Alabama's highway construction money -- $150 million in federal funding -- could go away, and Gov. Robert Bentley and some legislators are looking for alternative sources of funding to replace the missing funds. One solution being considered is adding toll roads in certain... | 5 |
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley declares General Fund proration cuts by AnnistonStar
Apr 01, 2011 |
After weeks of warning about it, Gov. Robert Bentley on Thursday declared proration in the state General Fund, cutting this year's budgeted spending from the fund for some agencies by 15 percent but leaving prisons, Medicaid and a few other areas of state government largely untouched.
"In ... | 6 |
Alabama House of Representatives passes bill that would ban texting while driving by AnnistonStar
Apr 01, 2011 |
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-2 Thursday to make it illegal to send text messages while driving.
House members said the bill will keep drivers, particularly teens, safer. But a few legislators questioned how enforceable it would be.
"Everybody knows we are going to save live... | 7 |
Military overseas voting bill passes Alabama Senate by AnnistonStar
Apr 01, 2011 |
It’s hard for overseas servicemen and -women to vote back home in Alabama, but bills in the House and Senate will change that, the sponsor of a Senate bill said.
The Senate by a 30-1 margin on Thursday approved a bill by Sen. Gerald Dial, R-Lineville, to create a 13-member Alabama Electroni... | 7 |
Officials think they know scope of problem with tainted IV bags made in Birmingham by AnnistonStar
Mar 31, 2011 |
Health officials said Wednesday they think they know the scope of a lethal bacterial infection linked to tainted IV bags made in Birmingham, but they also said the cases started well before this month's recall.
In addition, an attorney representing the family of a patient who died after bei... | 6 |
Woman accuses Tuscaloosa police officer of rape by AnnistonStar
Mar 31, 2011 |
A woman has accused a Tuscaloosa Police Officer of raping her early Sunday morning.
The Tuscaloosa Police officer, whose name was not released, saw the 42-year-old woman walking along Alabama Highway 216 at 1 a.m. Sunday, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson said.
Read the full story f... | 7 |
DeKalb County shooting suspects in custody by AnnistonStar
Mar 31, 2011 |
A man and woman wanted for questioning in the shooting of a Fort Payne man were taken into custody Wednesday morning after a two-day search, DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris said.
Shawn Ray Willis and Jennifer Noel Lawson will be charged with first-degree assault and possibly will face ot... | 6 | Follow Us
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