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North Alabama health care fraud penalties top $48 million, U.S. says by AnnistonStar
Feb 13, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Penalties for health care fraud have totaled more than $48 million in north Alabama in the past four years as federal authorities push harder to get the guilty individuals and companies to pay up, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. But the amount being collected from investigations does ...
Officials expect state worker layoffs by AnnistonStar
Feb 13, 2011 |  1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Some Alabama officials do not see any way they can bal­ance the budget for next year without laying off state em­ployees. They're forecasting anoth­er hole in the state General Fund budget, which pays for Medicaid, state prisons, pub­lic safety, public health and most other non-education funct...
Munford teacher says farewell after being called to duty by AnnistonStar
Feb 12, 2011 |  0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Lee Romines, Munford High School special education teacher, was surprised by his fellow faculty members with a goodbye ceremony Friday morning, his last day of work before being deployed to Iraq. Romines is in the Alabama Army National Guard. Read the full story from The Daily Home.
Determined Chelsea 5th-grader Hunter Jones keeps training for marathon after awakening from coma by AnnistonStar
Feb 12, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Hunter Jones just couldn't get enough. The 10-year-old from Chelsea walked up and down the halls of Children's Hospital. Over and over, the youngster who had spent about a week in a coma after a horrific December car accident would repeat his trek, his reluctant mother in tow. Read the full...
Cold case rape nets Gadsden man three life sentences by AnnistonStar
Feb 12, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A 43-year-old man charged with rape, sodomy and burglary in a 1996 Gadsden attack has pleaded guilty, according to a news release from Attorney General Luther Strange. .art_main_pic { width: 250px; float: left; clear: left; } Geoffrey Todd Mack, of Gadsden, pleaded guilty Friday to fi...
UAH shooting tragedy remembered in Huntsville one year later by AnnistonStar
Feb 12, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
The University of Alabama in Huntsville community gathers on campus this afternoon to remember three people killed and two seriously wounded one year ago in a mass shooting in a biology faculty meeting. The Feb. 12 crime quickly made national news because of the six people shot, the suspected ...
Larger class sizes may result from education budget shortfalls by AnnistonStar
Feb 11, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Bigger class sizes and few­er working days for teachers could be in the works as a remedy to fill the projected shortfalls in the state's 2012 education budget. The state Department of Education is asking for a 5.6 percent increase to make up for just a portion of the feder­al stimulus dollars...
Alabama could lose more than 1,000 teacher jobs for lack of money, superintendent says by AnnistonStar
Feb 11, 2011 |  2 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Alabama's public schools likely will have at least 1,000 fewer teachers and state two-year colleges and universities will face closing programs and leaving faculty positions vacant if they don't get increases from the state Education Trust Fund next year, education leaders said Thursday.  But ...
Car thief discovers baby on board, then drops it off at a house before abandining the vehicle by AnnistonStar
Feb 11, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A thief stole a car from a south side community center Wednesday night with a 6-month-old boy in the back seat. Minutes later, the thief left the infant, still secured in a car seat, on the porch of a home a few blocks away before abandoning the car on another nearby street, police spokesman Off...
Albertville woman charged in anthrax letters hoax by AnnistonStar
Feb 11, 2011 |  0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
A federal indictment charging an Albertville woman with mailing two hoax anthrax letters to the Social Security Administration office in Albertville in 2009 was unsealed Tuesday following her arrest, according to U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Frank Dyer, postal inspector/domicile coordinat...

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