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18, May 2012 - Bay Minette, AL Items with tag “courthouse surveillance cameras” - Birmingham News
BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Officials in Baldwin County were scrambling Thursday to claim credit for stopping a courthouse surveillance system that may have recorded private conversations in violation of federal law, according to officials. Full story »
18, May 2012 - Federal bank fraud cases up in north Alabama - Everything Alabama Blog
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Eight men and women ... of the times," said James Kendrick, a Birmingham attorney who has represented clients charged with bank fraud. Rod Pittman, director of corporate security for BBVA Compass, stated in a written ...
18, May 2012 - Sumter, AL Attorney to ask for reduced sentence for church arsonist - Fox Birmingham
Jr. pleaded guilty to helping two fellow Birmingham college students burn nine churches in Sumter, Bibb, Pickens and Green County in February 2006. He finished his federal sentence and is now scheduled to serve two years in an Alabama prison. Debusk's ...
18, May 2012 - Alabama lawmakers added a year to Jeffco bankruptcy-lawyer - Reuters
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 17 (Reuters) - Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County and creditors owed $4.23 billion will spend a t least an extra year battling in court, the county's lead bankruptcy lawyer said, because state lawmakers killed a bill ...
18, May 2012 - Vestavia, AL Auburn man apparently severs hand with chain saw - WKRN
Authorities say Jones was initially taken by ambulance to East Alabama Medical Center after a helicopter carrying him to Montgomery had mechanical trouble. He was later taken to UAB Hospital in Birmingham ... the state Supreme Court to block retrials ...
18, May 2012 - Bibb, AL Church arsonist, ex-Birmingham-Southern student, asks Bibb County judge to end state prison time
DeBusk, convicted of setting fires at five Bibb County churches, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and to a 15-year split sentence in Alabama.
18, May 2012 - Vestavia, AL Alabama lawmakers spurn jobs tax for bankrupt county - Worldnews.com
Telecommunications provider AT&T, formerly BellSouth, also has a major presence in Alabama with several large offices in Birmingham ... that dominated state politics until a series of court cases required redistricting in 1972.
18, May 2012 - Redistricting includes Shelby, Madison County - Auburn Plainsman
“To move a district that’s wholly within Jefferson County to Madison County makes ... process be done after each federal census, Alabama did not redistrict from 1901 through 1972 when the repercussions of a Birmingham court case, based on the 14th ...
18, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL DPD nabs Birmingham attorney in Internet case - Demopolis Times
At the time of his arrest, Brown was an associate lawyer with WhatleyKallas, a Birmingham-based law firm specializing in healthcare ... from as far away as Oklahoma and from all around Alabama. Each were charged with various crimes ranging ...
18, May 2012 - Ala. Senate rejects move to repeal immigration law - Birmingham News
(AP) — The Alabama Senate rejected Wednesday ... this piece of legislation," Beason said. Mary Bauer, attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center which filed a lawsuit last year against the immigration law, argued that one of the changes requires ...
18, May 2012 - Vestavia, AL Retirement money for Adams Produce workers still locked up - Everything Alabama Blog
The filing comes after lawyers for Adams Produce last week asked the bankruptcy court to order the payout of retirement account money to the terminated employees. Those workers, including 100 in Birmingham ... on a real-estate loan, $750,000 ...
18, May 2012 - Union challenges Ala. immigration law under NAFTA - Fox Birmingham
(AP) - An international labor union and a Mexican labor lawyers group have filed a complaint challenging Alabama's immigration law under an international ... A spokeswoman for state Attorney General Luther Strange did not immediately return a call for ...
18, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL USDOJ: Former Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Sergeant Sentenced for Criminal Civil Rights
“Law ... FBI’s Birmingham Field Office. The case was prosecuted by Trial Attorney D.W. Tunnage of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and Assistant United States Attorney Tamarra Matthews-Johnson for the Northern District of Alabama.
18, May 2012 - Alabama lawmakers, Jefferson County officials keep talking about financial rescue - Everything Alab
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Jefferson County officials ... dealing with an occupational tax threatened the bill's chances of becoming law. Such a tax under the bill as now written would apply to architects, lawyers, doctors, engineers and others ...
18, May 2012 - Tuscaloosa, AL Tide getting a special player in Jimmie Taylor, Greensboro High coach says - Birmingham News
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Craig Williams has watched Jimmie Taylor grow ... but in key situations, he demanded the ball." Off the court, Taylor is special, too. "He's a great player, but you have to look at his character before you look at anything ...
18, May 2012 - Montgomery, AL Several free events celebrate new exhibit at Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery - Birmingham News
MONTGOMERY ... of art from Alabama artists. The exhibit will remain open every Friday and Saturday from noon until 4 p.m. throughout the year. The Freedom Rides Museum is located just south of the intersection of South Court Street and Adams ...
18, May 2012 - Sumter, AL Church arsonist asks for reduced sentence - Fox Birmingham
Jr. pleaded guilty to helping two fellow Birmingham college students burn nine churches in Sumter, Bibb, Pickens and Greene County in February 2006. He finished his federal sentence and is now scheduled to serve two years in an Alabama prison. Debusk's ...
17, May 2012 - Arizona immigration case could affect Alabama immigration law - Fox Birmingham
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court today could affect the future of Alabama's immigration law. On Wednesday ... Dagmar Rick, an immigration attorney in Birmingham, says having states individually enforce immigration will cause nothing but more problems.
17, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Alabama Cities, Counties Can Go Bankrupt, High Court Says
Alabama cities and counties without bond debt can file for bankruptcy, the state Supreme Court said in a ruling that supports Jefferson County’s entering court protection last fall.
17, May 2012 - Lawmakers approve tweaks to Alabama immigration law - msnbc.com
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama lawmakers passed a new ... publish on a quarterly basis the names of illegal immigrants who appear in court on charges of violating state law whether they have been convicted or not. Proponents of the changes said ...
17, May 2012 - Vestavia, AL ICE responds to Eldani case - Fox Birmingham
Dagmar Rick, an immigration attorney in Birmingham, has only seen this one other time ... And with no country willing to take him in, only the state of Alabama can do anything about him. "The criminal justice system can throw him in jail; nobody is ...
17, May 2012 - Montgomery, AL Legislature says no money for jailed Alabama mom - Birmingham News
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has refused to pay nearly $119,000 to a west Alabama woman who spent nine months in jail facing a capital murder charge that resulted from a botched autopsy on her newborn son. The Senate had included the ...
17, May 2012 - Lee, AL RMTC Hosts National Search for "The MLK Project" - Submissions Due 9/1 - Broadway World
Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, AL) and its Executive Director Keith Cromwell, in collaboration with Lee Sentell (Alabama Tourism Director ... Jr.’s historic “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” The one-act theatrical presentation ...
17, May 2012 - Alabama Senate approves bill to raise court costs, bail bond fees - Birmingham News
MONTGOMERY, Alabama --- The Alabama Senate late tonight voted to raise court costs and bail bond fees to generate money for the state's cash-strapped court system. Senators voted 26-7 for the bill. The measure must go back to the House of ...
17, May 2012 - Lawmakers approve tweaks to Alabama immigration law - Worldnews.com
(AP) — Pioneering lawyer, civil-rights champion and political leader Nina Miglionico will be inducted this week into the Alabama Lawyer's Hall of Fame, joining four honorees including two other lawyers from ... Birmingham's political, business and ...
17, May 2012 - Auburn, AL Investors' new suit offers new claims about Tuberville's connection to failed hedge funds
Tuberville is the former head football coach at Auburn University, where the business is located. Vic Hayslip, Tuberville’s attorney in Birmingham ... Thompson, of the federal Middle District of Alabama, denied Tuberville’s motion to ...
17, May 2012 - Anniston, AL AREVA Med's Clinical Trial Now Enrolling Patients at UAB Affiliates
BETHESDA, Md. -- AREVA Med announced that University of Alabama at Birmingham's (UAB) Cancer Center Network affiliates are now enrolling patients for the Phase I clinical trial for patients with intra-abdominal ...
17, May 2012 - Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Reneau Almon dies; memorial service planned for Tuesday - Ever
When the court split into separate courts for criminal and ... Bar President Jim Pratt of Birmingham said "Justice Almon was one of the brightest individuals who has served on the court in the years I've been an attorney." Former State Bar ...
17, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Alabama Lawmakers Kill Jefferson County Rescue Bill - NASDAQ
Jefferson County, home to about 658,000 residents and the city of Birmingham, filed for bankruptcy protection ... Its problems worsened after the Alabama Supreme Court declared that a wage tax that once pumped roughly $75 million into the ...
17, May 2012 - Former Ala. Supreme Court Justice Almon dies - WKRN
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Reneau Almon has died. He was 74. Long-time friend Bob Martin said Almon died Monday night at Brookwood Hospital in Birmingham from complications from Alzheimer's disease and other health problems.
17, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Former Alabama Organ Center Executive Sentenced for Fraud - FBI Press Room (press release)
BIRMINGHAM—U.S. District Judge R ... to pay $489,551 in restitution to the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation and to forfeit $242,344 to the federal government as proceeds of illegal activity. The Alabama Organ Center is a component ...
17, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Overcrowded prisons prompt sentencing changes - CBS42.com
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. "I think we're feeling okay about the fact that violent offenders are going to, the sentences are going to remain at a level that's acceptable." At Good People Brewing Company in Birmingham, Alabama a company truck was ...
17, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Alabama lawmakers getting more time - Examiner
Wednesday, the last day of the Alabama legislature ... Bankrupt Jefferson County hoped the lawmakers would pass a new occupational tax to replace the other taxes declared illegal. Those court decisions helped toss the county into financial ...
17, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Jefferson County judge upholds life sentence for Terrell French in Terrory Murphy killing (updated)
BESSEMER, Alabama -- The mother of Terrory Murphy pleaded with a Jefferson County circuit judge this afternoon to "send a message" about black-on-black crime by giving Terrell French, the man convicted of fatally shooting her son during a ...
17, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Alabama court says bonds not needed for muni bankruptcies - Town Hall
In a 13-page opinion supporting Jefferson County, which last November filed the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy, the Alabama Supreme Court said another distressed local government, the City of Prichard, was eligible for Chapter 9 filing under ...
16, May 2012 - Birmingham, AL Former Birmingham schools security officer sentenced in child porn case - Everything Alabama Blog
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A former Birmingham schools security officer ... Johnson called it a horrific crime and that Wooten had been a person people should have been able to trust with their children. Wooten, who also was a retired police officer ...
16, May 2012 - UAB conducts ground breaking abdominal cancer trials
There are new clinical trials at the University of Alabama Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer center to fight aggressive abdominal cancers.
16, May 2012 - Two Tuscaloosa Alabama brothers arrested for robberies - Worldnews.com
Republicans hold all nine seats on the Alabama Supreme Court and all ten seats on the ... a daily passenger train, running from New York to New Orleans with stops at Anniston, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa. In March 2011, Alabama ranked among the top five ...
16, May 2012 - Helena, AL Rupp named assistant coach for Griz hoops - kpax
Prior to his stint at Tech, Rupp had stints at Alabama-Birmingham, Indiana and Utah ... He is an unbelievable teacher of the game and loves time on the court with the players. "I think he's going to be a great addition," Tinkle said.
16, May 2012 - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas B. Bennett 'ideal person' at the center of precedent-setting
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- One of Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett's first acts after being assigned to preside over Jefferson County's bankruptcy case was to warn lawyers on both ... was a partner in a West Virginia law firm, having ...
16, May 2012 - Jefferson, AL Convicted arsonist asks to be released from prison - Gadsden Times
One of three men who pleaded guilty to arson charges in a series of 2006 rural Alabama church fires has asked to be let out of prison early. Russell DeBusk, a former Birmingham-Southern student, on Monday asked Bibb County Circuit Judge Marvin ...
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