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20070529

Worker - Women - Race - Alabama - Business - Alito - Roberts - Scalia - Kennedy - "Worker Job-Bias Claims Limited by U.S. Supreme Court (Update4)." ... "Workers can't sue under a federal job- bias law to claim they are underpaid because of gender or race discrimination that occurred years earlier, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a victory for employers." ... "The justices, voting 5-4, rejected a $360,000 award to Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. worker who said that almost two decades of discrimination meant her salary was 15 to 40 percent lower than what her male counterparts earned." ... "The 1964 Civil Rights Act typically gives workers 180 days from the time of the alleged discrimination to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The question was whether workers can claim that their most recent paychecks are affected by bias that took place outside the 180-day window." ... "``Current effects alone cannot breathe life into prior, uncharged discrimination,'' Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. ``Ledbetter should have filed an EEOC charge within 180 days after each allegedly discriminatory pay decision was made and communicated to her.''" ... "Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined Alito's opinion. Lower courts were divided on the issue." ... "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court's only woman, took the unusual step of reading a summary of her dissent from the bench as she sat next to Alito. She said the majority ``does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination.'' " -By Greg Stohr -Bloomberg

20070527

Ala - Terrorism - Law - Enforcement - Politics - Free Speech - Liberty - Military - Environmentalist - Animal - Abortion - "Ala. terror Web site angers activists." ... "The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists." ... "The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents." ... "The site included the groups under a description of what it called "single-issue" terrorists. That group includes people who feel they are trying to create a better world, the Web site said. It said that in some communities, law enforcement officers consider certain single issue groups to be a threat." -By Bob Johnson -AP via -Yahoo

20070514

Religious - Terrorism - Internet - Free Speech - Prison - Police - Politics - Women's - Abortion - Health - Georgia - Alabama - Colo - "Extremist taunts his victims from prison." ... "Victims of Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion extremist who pulled off a series of bombings across the South, say he is taunting them from deep within the nation's most secure federal prison, and authorities say there is little they can do to stop him." ... "Rudolph, who was captured after a five-year manhunt and pleaded guilty in deadly bombings at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta [Georgia] and a Birmingham [Alabama] abortion clinic, is serving life in prison at the "Supermax" penitentiary in Florence, Colo [Colorado]." ... "Housed in the most secure part of the prison, he has no computer and little contact with the outside world aside from writing letters." ... "But Rudolph's long essays have been posted on the Internet by a supporter who maintains an Army of God website. The Army of God is the same loose-knit group that Rudolph claimed to represent in letters sent after the blasts." ... "Diane Derzis, who owns the Birmingham clinic that was bombed, killing a police officer, said someone should stop Rudolph." ... "Bureau of Prisons regulations give wardens the right to reject correspondence by an inmate for "the protection of the public, or if it might facilitate criminal activity." That includes material "which may lead to the use of physical violence."" -AP via -USATODAY

20061205

US - Iraq - Afghanistan - Government - Military - Technology - Money - Politics - People - Flying - Vehicles - Alabama - "U.S. Army Battling To Save Equipment: Gear Piles Up at Depots, Awaiting Repair." ... "Field upon field of more than 1,000 battered M1 tanks, howitzers and other armored vehicles sit amid weeds here at the 15,000-acre Anniston Army Depot [Alabama] -- the idle, hulking formations symbolic of an Army that is wearing out faster than it is being rebuilt." ... "The Army and Marine Corps have sunk more than 40 percent of their ground combat equipment into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to government data. An estimated $17 billion-plus worth of military equipment is destroyed or worn out each year, blasted by bombs, ground down by desert sand and used up to nine times the rate in times of peace. The gear is piling up at depots such as Anniston, waiting to be repaired." ... "The depletion of major equipment such as tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and especially helicopters and armored Humvees has left many military units in the United States without adequate training gear, officials say. Partly as a result of the shortages, many U.S. units are rated "unready" to deploy, officials say, raising alarm in Congress and concern among military leaders at a time when Iraq strategy is under review by the White House and the bipartisan Iraq Study Group." ... "Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army's chief of staff, is lobbying hard for more money to repair what he calls the "holes" in his force, saying current war funding is inadequate to make the Army "well." Asked in a congressional hearing this past summer whether he was comfortable with the readiness levels of non-deployed Army units, Schoomaker replied: "No."" ... "Despite the work piling up, the Army's depots have been operating at about half their capacity because of a lack of funding for repairs." -By Ann Scott Tyson -WashingtonPost

20061113

Richard Shelby

Corporate

Crime

Government

Law

Politics

Digital

Technology

Online

Consumer

California

Alabama

"Inside America's Richest Insurance Racket: Title insurance firms rake in $18 billion a year for a product that is outdated, largely unneeded--and protected by law." ... "Parker Kennedy's roots run deep in the California company his family founded 112 years ago. Through four generations the clan (unrelated to the Massachusetts political dynasty) has run what today is First American [Corporation], the largest title-insurance company in the nation. It collects $5.8 billion a year selling this age-old mainstay of homeownership." ... "All that cash--for an outdated product that should have been all but wiped out by digital technology." ... "Title companies appeared a century ago, helping to protect home buyers from being swindled by crooks who sold properties they didn't own. A title insurance policy protects the buyer in case the deed turns out to be defective but the seller cannot be collared to refund the purchase price. It is far less necessary in these days of computerized records, online searches and rare instances of title fraud or hidden liens." ... "Yet First American and its two main rivals--number two Fidelity National (no relation to Fidelity mutual funds) and third-ranked LandAmerica--are fat and thriving in an $18-billion-a-year business that has quadrupled in ten years." ... "First American has doubled its prices in a decade, to an average charge of $1,472 per home for a title search and insurance. Meanwhile, thanks to computerized record-keeping, the cost of searching for a home's ownership records online has fallen to as low as $25. Technology also has helped make mistakes rarer; now only $74 of each policy goes to pay claims--that is, make home buyers with defective deeds whole. That leaves a $1,373 spread for overhead and for profit." ... "Fancy this: racetracks that keep 93% of your money and return only 5% in winning tickets. They wouldn't last long, not unless they could somehow rig the rules to both forbid price competition and make the purchase of race bets mandatory. That's more or less what the title insurance industry has done to American homeowners." ... "Kennedy attributes his profits to the long housing boom and the efforts his company has made to deploy technology and move jobs offshore. "Nobody's cutting a fat hog," he says." ... "But the title industry's halcyon days owe much to antiquated state laws that thwart new competition, allow prices to soar despite declining costs and force almost every home buyer to pay for insurance that most of them will never need. In all but a handful of states, laws bar insurance giants in other fields, such as AIG or State Farm, from offering title insurance and undercutting incumbents' prices. It also is illegal for anyone to offer guarantees that provide the same protection as title insurance." ... "In 2004 the title industry stared down another threat, this one in Washington, D.C. HUD [Housing and Urban Development] had pushed for rules that would allow lenders to package title insurance with a mortgage, something federal law currently forbids. The title industry, fearing the power of banks to negotiate lower title insurance rates, was violently opposed to the rules and found a key ally in [Alabama Republican] Senator Richard Shelby, the Alabama Republican who is chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee--and who owns the Tuscaloosa Title Co. [Company.] (A Shelby spokesman says the senator's attitude toward HUD's proposals is unrelated to his sideline business.) HUD is now considering other options for reforming the industry." ... "Yet another movement for change comes from efforts by the nation's county recorders to agree on a uniform way to store property records online, which could severely curtail the need for title insurers. But even if they succeed, most state legislatures would have to lift a thicket of creaky old laws that have enriched the title industry for decades--and bilked home buyers out of billions of dollars." (1, 2) -By Scott Woolley

-Forbes

Note: First American Corp contributed $56,000 to Alabama Republican Senator Richard Shelby (2001-2006)

via -OpenSecrets.org

20061001

Secret - Children - Crime - Politics - Mark Foley - Florida - John Boehner - Ohio - Louisiana - New York - Illinois - Alabama - 2006 Election - "G.O.P. Aides Knew in Late ’05 of E-Mail." ... "Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between [Florida Republican] Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children’s issues, Republican lawmakers said Saturday." ... "Among those who became aware earlier this year of the fall 2005 communications between Mr. Foley and the 16-year-old page, who worked for Representative Rodney Alexander, Republican of Louisiana, were [Ohio Republican] Representative John A. Boehner, the majority leader, and [New York Republican] Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Mr. Reynolds said in a statement Saturday that he had also personally raised the issue with Speaker J. Dennis Hastert [Illinois Republican]." ... "Democrats moved quickly to criticize Mr. Reynolds, who while overseeing House campaigns nationally is facing the potential of a serious [2006 Election] challenge from Jack Davis, a wealthy businessman who has vowed to spend at least $2 million of his own money in the contest. “Tom Reynolds had a moral obligation to protect our children,” said Curtis Ellis, a spokesman for Mr. Davis." ... "At the Justice Department, an official said that no investigation was under way but that the agency had “real interest” in examining the circumstances to see if any crimes were committed." ... "Several of Mr. Foley’s former colleagues demanded a criminal inquiry." ... "Representative Robert E. Cramer, an Alabama Democrat who was co-chairman with Mr. Foley of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, condemned Mr. Foley’s actions as “shocking and disturbing.”" ... "“Anyone, including Foley, involved in this type of behavior should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Mr. Cramer said." (1, 2) -By Carl Hulse and Raymond Hernandez with contributions by Kate Zernike, David Johnston, and Abby Goodnough -NYTimes

20060908

Richard Shelby

Corporate

Politics

Government

Military

Legislation

Space

Computer

Technology

Alabama

"Shelby Steers $50 Million to Projects, Aiding Donor (Update1)." ... "[Alabama Republican] Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama has steered at least $50 million over the past decade, including $10 million approved by the Senate yesterday, to military projects benefiting a company owned by one of his largest campaign contributors." ... "Shelby, a senior Republican on the Appropriations Committee, has inserted the funds into legislation at the request of Huntsville[ Alabama]-based COLSA Corp. [Corporation], a privately held space-and missile- defense company. Its owner, Francisco J. Collazo, has known Shelby for 20 years and has contributed more than $400,000 to his campaigns and committees since hiring a former Shelby aide as a lobbyist in 1996." ... "The $10 million Shelby added for COLSA in the 2007 measure is designated for ``Missile Aero-propulsion Computer System Modernization.''" ... "In a November 1995 press release, the senator announced he had secured $30 million for the [COLSA Advanced Research Center] program. He added another $20 million to the budget request for the research center over the next three years." ... "In the fiscal year that ended [September] Sept. 30, the latest for which figures are available, COLSA had $107 million in federal contracts, up from $46 million for 1999, according to government procurement figures compiled by Eagle Eye Publishers Inc., a Fairfax, Virginia, company that tracks federal spending." ... "In 1996, Collazo hired G. Stewart Hall, a former Shelby aide, to lobby for research, development and engineering funding in defense measures. In September 1998, Alabama records show Collazo gave $50,000 and Hall $25,000 to Shelby's state political action committee on the same day. Collazo gave another $50,000 to the PAC [Political Action Committee] a month later. Hall, who made $240,000 lobbying for COLSA two years ago, declined to comment." ... "In early 1999, COLSA received a contract to operate, maintain and provide engineering support for the center. Since then, that contract has produced $224 million in revenue for the company, according to federal procurement data." ... "Collazo's holding company gave $100,000 donations to two national Republican campaign committees in 2000 and 2001, and he gave Shelby's state PAC three $100,000 donations between June 2001 and September 2002, according to campaign-finance reports." ... "In May 2002, Shelby wrote a 25-page letter to an Appropriations subcommittee making 106 requests, totaling more than $500 million, for the 2003 defense-spending measure. The first item on the list was $20.4 million for the center. That October, Shelby announced Congress had funded the entire amount." ... "In 2004, Shelby asked for $21.3 million and got $15 million for a ``Hypersonic Army Missile Technology'' project at the center -- another COLSA request, according to the company." -By Charles R. Babcock and Brian Faler

-Bloomberg

20060707

Secret - Abramoff - Reed - Mark Zachares - Rove - Political - Money - Government- Mississippi - Alabama - Labor - Northern Mariana Islands - "Reed In The Rough." ... "Just days before [Republican President] George W. Bush took office in 2001, lobbyist Jack Abramoff was busily working with Ralph Reed, his longtime friend, political sidekick, and business associate, to place a key ally in the Interior Department." ... "Reed, an elite "Pioneer" fundraiser for the Bush campaign and a campaign adviser, had already helped Abramoff land his own plum slot on Bush's Interior transition team. Abramoff coveted the slot because Interior was overseeing the lobbyist's two biggest clients at the time -- the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians." ... "Now Abramoff, who had hired Reed in 1999 and 2000 to run anti-gambling drives in Alabama to fend off threats to the Choctaws' casino profits, was looking for more help. This time, Abramoff was trying to secure a job at Interior for Mark Zachares, a former secretary of labor in the Marianas government." ... "On January 11, 2001, Abramoff e-mailed Reed. "I was thinking about this appointment" to the Office of Insular Affairs at Interior, Abramoff wrote. "I know it is perhaps a bizarre request, but considering how quickly I was named to the transition advisory team thanks to your request, perhaps it would be possible to ask Karl [Rove, the president's chief political adviser]... that they should appoint Mark Zachares to head the Office of Insular Affairs.... Do you think we could get this favor from Karl? It would be my big ask for sure."" ... "Reed replied quickly: "It never hurts to ask. What's the next move?" Later that day, Reed sounded even more eager. "Just let me know who to call, when to call, and what to say. And while you're at it get me another client! NOW!"" ... "On March 6, Abramoff met with Rove for about half an hour and pushed for Zachares, according to Abramoff's former lobbying colleagues at the firm Greenberg Traurig and to Secret Service logs released earlier this year." -By Peter H. Stone -NationalJournal

20060614

Ala. - Wis. - Mo. - "After long decline, murders rise in small cities." ... "It's too soon to call it a trend, but last year's jump in murders - particularly in smaller cities - has some police and crime experts worried." ... "Murders rose 4.8 percent, the largest percentage increase in 15 years, according to the preliminary FBI numbers released Monday. And while the number of murders in the nation's largest cities barely changed, cities with smaller populations saw a much sharper increase. Murders were up 76 percent in Birmingham, Ala., 40 percent in Milwaukee [Wis.], and 42 percent in Kansas City, Mo., and 12.5 percent on average for all cities between 100,000 and 250,000 people." ... ""This looks like something real," says David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "It's usually very unwise to read too much into the year-to-year movement. But within the general national decline [in violent crime in the past decade] there has been a general trend in the smaller jurisdictions and in rural areas that has been on the increase."" -By Amanda Paulson and Sara Miller Llana -CSMonitor

20051213

Psychology - Drugs - Science - Alabama - "Parkinson's hope over 'implants': US scientists have moved a step closer to developing a brain implant therapy for Parkinson's disease symptoms." ... "The most common drug treatment for the brain condition is levodopa, but the pills can leave people susceptible to involuntary movements such as twitches." ... "The Alabama University team found in tests on six patients, eye cells which produce levodopa can be implanted safely and without the side effects." ... "The study was published in the Archives of Neurology journal."-BBC /News

20051025

Michigan - Alabama - Civil Righs - Transportation - Politics - Law - History - Woman - "Rosa Parks, civil rights icon, dead at 92: With act of dignity, a movement began." ... "Rosa Parks, the Alabama seamstress whose soft-spoken refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man triggered the Montgomery [Alabama] bus boycott, the first great mass action in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, died yesterday. She was 92." ... "Mrs. Parks died at her home in Detroit [Michigan] of natural causes, according to a spokesman for US Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan." ... "The boycott brought to national prominence a 26-year-old Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr. He later inscribed a copy of his book ''Stride Toward Freedom" to Mrs. Parks, ''Whose creative witness," he wrote, ''was the great force that led to the modern stride toward freedom."" ... "That act of ''creative witness" made Mrs. Parks a world icon of freedom and earned her the popular title ''mother of the civil rights movement."" -By Mark Feeney -Boston/Globe

20050928

Hurricane Katrina - LA - MS - AL - FL - GA - TX - Disaster - Weather - History - "Morgue boss: 'These are horrible times': Katrina qualifies as the third deadliest storm in U.S. history." ... "Louisiana's death toll stood Wednesday at 896. Katrina has claimed a total of 1,130 lives in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia -- making it the third deadliest storm in U.S. history." ... "A Category 4 storm killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas, in 1900. Another storm killed 1,836 people in South Florida 28 years later." -CNN
Hurricane Katrina - Health - Louisiana - Alabama - Mississippi - "Senate Panel Spars With White House Over Health Care for Victims: Gov. Kathleen Blanco sidesteps the blame game regarding government response to Hurricane Katrina and asks for help in creating jobs." ... "Senate Finance Committee members accused the White House today of blocking a bipartisan $9-billion healthcare package for Hurricane Katrina victims." ... "The legislation would temporarily extend Medicaid coverage to thousands of adult victims of the hurricane who would otherwise have no health insurance. Under the bill, the uninsured would get five months of coverage, and President Bush would have the option of extending the program an additional five months. It would also require the federal government to pick up the entire tab for Medicaid costs in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi for 2006." -By Mary Curtius -LAtimes

20050917

Alabama - Arizona - Hurricane Katrina - Disaster - - - - "Looking for a Corpse to Make a Case: Senators look for a wealthy casualty of Katrina as evidence against the estate tax." ... "Federal troops aren't the only ones looking for bodies on the Gulf Coast. On Sept. 9, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions called his old law professor Harold Apolinsky, co-author of Sessions' legislation repealing the federal estate tax, which was encountering sudden resistance on the Hill. Sessions had an idea to revitalize their cause, which he left on Apolinsky's voice mail: "[Arizona Sen.] Jon Kyl and I were talking about the estate tax. If we knew anybody that owned a business that lost life in the storm, that would be something we could push back with."" ... "If legislative ambulance chasing looks like a desperate measure, for the backers of repealing the estate tax, these are desperate times. Just three weeks ago, their long-sought goal of repeal seemed within reach, but Katrina dashed their hopes when Republican leaders put off an expected vote." -By Massimo Calbresi with contributions by Amanda Ripley -TIME.com

20050910

Florida - Texas - Louisiana - Mississippi - Alabama - - - "Red Cross Paying Hotel Bills for Thousands." ... "In a massive, costly and little-noticed effort to calm a housing catastrophe that reaches from Florida to Texas, the American Red Cross has quietly created a program that it says is now picking up hotel bills for at least 57,000 people who fled Hurricane Katrina. Room charges are being paid out of the $503 million that the Red Cross has collected so far for hurricane relief." ... "The program began early this week, when several thousand hotels and motels in and around the Gulf Coast area were notified by the Red Cross that registered guests who can show that they lived in 256 storm-affected Zip codes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama would be eligible to have their unpaid room charges covered by the Red Cross." (1, 2) -By Blaine Harden-WashingtonPost

RedCross.org

- - - Hurricane Katrina - Alabama - Mississippi - Louisiana - "National Guard Stretched Thin." ... "About 41,000 Guard members are scattered across Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, along with 17,000 active-duty troops. About 30,000 Guard members are serving in Iraq, with smaller numbers in Afghanistan, Kosovo and elsewhere overseas." ... "The head of the National Guard Bureau said Friday the assignment of thousands of Guard troops from Mississippi and Louisiana to Iraq delayed those states' initial hurricane response by about a day." ... ""Had that brigade been at home and not in Iraq, their expertise and capabilities could have been brought to bear," said Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, the bureau's chief." ... "The Pentagon has said the response was swift and another 319,000 Army National Guard and Air National Guard personnel are available if needed." -AP via -CBSNews

20050830

Hurricane Katrina - Louisiana - Mississippi - Alabama - Disaster - - - - "Katrina Death Toll Climbs to 60 People; New Orleans Is Flooded." ... "Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, killing dozens of people, cutting off power to 2 million and leaving most of New Orleans flooded by water as deep as 20 feet. U.S. and state officials say it may be the nation's worst natural disaster." ... "The Federal Emergency Management Agency is moving 23 disaster medical assistance teams into areas hit by Katrina, the Homeland Security Department said in a statement. The agency also has sent urban search and rescue task forces as well as water, ice, generators and other supplies into the Gulf region." ... "The National Guard has mobilized about 7,500, or 42 percent, of 31,500 available personnel to distribute military meals and water, clean up debris and assist law enforcement officials if needed, said spokesman Jack Harrison." ... "More than 40 Coast Guard aircraft with more than 30 boats are conducting search, rescue and humanitarian aid operations, the Homeland Security Department said." -By Heather Burke -Bloomberg
Hurricane Katrina - Louisiana - Mississippi - Alabama - Disaster - - "Katrina damage called 'catastrophic': New Orleans reported to be 80% underwater, ports closed." ... "The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina had caused "catastrophic damage" to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama." ... "Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, also said it would be "quite a while" before displaced residents could return to the affected areas, according to the Associated Press." ... "New Orleans was reported to be 80% underwater, ports in the region were closed until further notice, and at least one levee break cause more flooding in the hard-city city." ... "New Orleans was pounded Monday, and, although it escaped the eye of the storm, two flood levees broke, and 80% of the city was reported to be underwater. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned of the possibility of a "significant" death toll in the city of almost half a million with a metropolitan population of 1.3 million." (1, 2) -MarketWatch
Hurricane Katrina - Mississippi - Tennessee - Louisiana- Alabama - Disaster - "Katrina kills 50 in one Mississippi county: Tropical storm heads toward Tennessee, Ohio River Valley." ... "Hurricane Katrina left at least 56 people dead Monday, about 50 of them in one Mississippi county, CNN confirmed, and the toll was expected to climb following one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the northern Gulf Coast in a half century." ... "More than 75,000 people are being housed in nearly 240 shelters across the region, and Red Cross President Marty Evans told CNN, "We expect that to grow" as people who can't return home seek somewhere to stay." ... "More than 1.3 million homes and businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were without electricity, according to utility companies serving the region." -Contributed to by Miles O'Brien, Anderson Cooper and Kathleen Koch -CNN

20050828

Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - - "Katrina now Category 4 storm: Hurricane warning for Morgan City, Louisiana to Alabama-Florida border." ... "Hurricane Katrina was packing winds of up to 145 mph early Sunday as it approached the U.S. Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center said." ... "The National Hurricane Center said Katrina -- now a Category 4 storm -- could announce its Monday arrival with tropical storm-force winds Sunday night." ... "At 10 p.m. (11 p.m. ET) Saturday the hurricane center issued a hurricane warning from Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Alabama-Florida border, an area that includes New Orleans. A warning means that hurricane conditions are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours." -Contributed to by David Mattingly, Susan Candiotti, Jacqui Jeras and Rob Marciano -CNN

20050718

Alabama- Georgia - - - - Gay - "Rudolph Gets Two Life Terms for Alabama Abortion Clinic Bombing." ... "Eric Rudolph was sentenced today to two life terms in prison for a 1998 bombing that killed an off- duty police officer and maimed a nurse at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama." ... "U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith sentenced Rudolph, 38, who pleaded guilty on April 13 to the Birmingham bombing. On the same day, Rudolph admitted setting off three bombs in Georgia, including one at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta that killed a spectator. He also admitted setting off bombs at an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and a gay nightclub in Atlanta." -By David Voreacos -Bloomberg

20050427

- - Alabama - "Alabama Bill Targets Gay Authors." ... "Republican Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. As CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, under his bill, public school libraries could no longer buy new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters." ... ""I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. "I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."" -CBSNews

20050413

- - Alabama - Georgia - North Carolina - Executions - "Rudolph set to plead guilty in 4 blasts: Victims expected in Birmingham [Alabama], Atlanta [Georgia] courtrooms." ... "Eric Robert Rudolph is scheduled to appear in two courtrooms in two cities Wednesday to plead guilty to four bombings, including a deadly blast during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta." ... "Rudolph's plea deal with prosecutors spares Rudolph the death penalty." ... "Rudolph, a survivalist who avoided capture for more than five years by hiding in the woods of North Carolina, is expected to appear in federal court in Birmingham around 8 a.m. (9 a.m. ET) to plead guilty to a January 1998 bombing of a women's clinic that killed a policeman and injured a nurse." -CNN

20050330

- Sports - "In case of a male coach, court adds teeth to gender-bias law: High court rules that Title IX, which shields girls' teams from discrimination, also protects whistleblowers from retaliation." ... "A man who lost his coaching job after complaining that his girls' high school basketball team was being treated like second-class citizens may claim the protections of a 1972 gender-bias law to get his job back." ... "Coach Roderick Jackson sued the Birmingham, Ala., Board of Education, saying the school district had violated Title IX in taking retaliatory action against him. A federal judge and federal appeals court panel threw out the suit." ... "But Tuesday the US Supreme Court reinstated his lawsuit, saying his firing amounts to a form of gender discrimination under Title IX - even though Coach Jackson is a man and was not a member of the girls' team." -By Warren Richey -CSMonitor

20040804

Richard Shelby

Criminal

Terrorism

Intelligence

Politics

Federal

Classified

Law

Media

Ala

"Investigators Concluded Shelby Leaked Message: Justice Dept. Declined To Prosecute Case." ... "Federal investigators concluded that [Alabama Republican Senator] Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.[ Republican-Alabama]) divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when he was on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, according to sources familiar with the probe." ... "Specifically, [Rupert Murdoch's cable television station] Fox News chief political correspondent Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] investigators that Shelby verbally divulged the information to him during a June 19, 2002, interview, minutes after Shelby's committee had been given the information in a classified briefing, according to the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the case." ... "Cameron did not air the material. Moments after Shelby spoke with Cameron, he met with CNN reporter Dana Bash, and about half an hour after that, CNN broadcast the material, the sources said. CNN cited "two congressional sources" in its report." ... "The FBI and the [United States] U.S. attorney's office pursued the case, and a grand jury was empaneled, but nobody has been charged with any crime. Last month it was revealed that the Justice Department had decided to forgo a criminal prosecution, at least for now, and turned the matter over to the Senate Ethics Committee." ... "The Justice Department declined to comment on why it was no longer pursuing the matter criminally." ... "The disclosure involved two messages that were intercepted by the National Security Agency on the eve of the [September] Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but were not translated until Sept. 12. The Arabic-language messages said "The match is about to begin" and "Tomorrow is zero hour."" ... "National security officials were outraged by the leak, and moments after the CNN broadcast a CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] official chastised committee members who had by then reconvened to continue the closed-door hearing. " -By Allan Lengel and Dana Priest

-WashingtonPost

20031113

- "Ala. chief justice ousted over 10 Commandments: Roy Moore showed little reaction as the ethics court ruled that he had placed himself ‘above the law.’" ... "Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, whose refusal to obey a federal order to move a Ten Commandments monument from a state building fueled a national debate over the place of God in public life, was stripped of his office Thursday." -By Don Teague with Brian Mooar, -AP & -Reuters via -MS-NBC

20030225

"Four killed in job agency shooting." ... "Police had an apartment building surrounded Tuesday where a man suspected of killing four people and wounding a fifth was holed up, police said." ... "The shooting took place at 6:30 a.m. (7:30 a.m. ET) at Labor Ready Inc., a temporary employment agency near downtown Huntsville, police said." -CNN

20020618

"Foreign Country Doctors: The effect of doctors with degrees from overseas institutions on the U.S. health care system." ... Host Fred de Sam Lazaro: "One of the few options for extending or waiving J-1 visas is to agree to serve in a federally designated physician shortage area, such as Eutaw [Alabama], typically for two to four years. The doctors then get permanent work visas, and at that point, Dr. Mullan says, their aspirations are no different from American colleagues." ... "But there may be other trouble on the horizon for rural communities now looking for doctors. Citing security concerns, the federal government recently announced it will no longer issue the waivers that extend the temporary stays of international medical graduates. Past attempts to limit foreign doctors have failed, and that's because they fulfill a need, according to Dr. Verghese." -Hosted By Fred de Sam Lazaro -PBS /NewsHour

20020101

"Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution: PCBs Drenched Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told." -By Michael Grunwald-WashingtonPost

19990609

Richard Shelby

Money

Politics

Federal

Transit

Construction

Alabama

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"Richard Shelby Is No Robin Hood." ... "Shortly before the Memorial Day recess, [Alabama Republican] Senator Richard Shelby started to pick the pockets of both California and New York State. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly to impose the Alabama Senator's 12.5 percent ceiling on what any one state can receive of the annual total of Federal rapid-transit aid. That would siphon off some $200 million to $300 million that would ordinarily go to New York or California in fiscal 2000 and redistribute it in equal shares to the other 48 states for mass transit." ... "Without these subways, commuter rail lines, light rail systems and buses, major metropolitan areas in both states would choke on highway congestion." ... "Mr. Shelby's Transit Equity Provision pretends to champion fairness even as it steals money from overburdened transit systems and distributes it to states that may not have matching funds or projects ready to carry out. But ''fairness'' cuts many ways. In fiscal 1997, by one analysis, New York delivered $14.2 billion more in taxes to Washington [DC, United States Capital] than it received in aid, and California delivered $11.8 billion more. Mr. Shelby's Alabama, on the other hand, was the beneficiary of $6.9 billion more in aid than it gave Washington in taxes. Is it ''fair'' to make these imbalances even greater?"

-NYTimes

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