Thursday 11th March, 2010

• King Doesn't Make Decision On Taking Over Bingo Task Force

  General Sources

  Alabama's attorney general emerged from a closed-door meeting Wednesday with the governor saying he will need a few more days to decide whether he will try to take over the gov ernor's gambling task f...

• 2 Marine Fighter Pilots Rescued; Sc Crash Probed

  Fox 6

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The Marine Corps is trying to determine why a fighter jet suffered engine failures, crashing into the ocean off South Carolina and forcing the pilots to bail out. Officials at...

• Morning Rain And Thunderstorms

  CBS 42

  Another round of showers and thunderstorms this morning. But as this rain begins to move out, we should get a nice little break from the rain into the afternoon. We may even get enough clearing to see...

• Governor And A.g. Meet To Discuss Gaming Task Force

  Fox 6

  MONTGOMERY, AL (WBRC) - Governor Bob Riley and Attorney General Troy King met on Wednesday to discuss the fate of Riley's gambling task force. King emerged from the meeting saying he had made no d...

• Uab Nurse Saves Lives In Haiti

  Fox 6

  BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) – A University of Alabama at Birmingham Nurse who went to Haiti to save some lives got the chance to change his own.Andres Viles has been a nurse for 10 years. He's als...

• Former Rep. Shays Aide Expected To Plead Guilty

  Fox 6

  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The campaign manager for former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays is expected to plead guilty to charges of embezzling campaign funds. Michael Sohn, of Fairfield, Conn., is scheduled to en...

• Tribes Face Hurdles With Sex Offender Registration

  Fox 6

  By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANAssociated Press Writer SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) - Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law pas...

• Pa. School Webcam Spying Suit Could Be Settled

  Fox 6

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A suburban Philadelphia family's webcam-spying lawsuit against a high school could be heading for a settlement. Lawyers for Lower Merion School District and the family of 15-y...

• Obama To Speak To Bankers, Preview Wwii Series

  Fox 6

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama speaks at a banking conference Thursday, holds more meetings on health care and gets a look at a new TV series about World War II. Obama will address the Expo...

• No Quick Payoff From Riley-king Meeting

  CBS 42

  (CBS 42) Anyone expecting a resolution of Alabama's bingo embroglio from a Troy King-Bob Riley meeting walked away disappointed. The governor and attorney general met for about two hours Wednesday i...

• No More "testosterone" Excuse For Men Or Women

  Examiner

  How often have you heard men or women blame aggressive behavior on "testosterone"?Robert Sapolsky, professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and...

• Success Of Lone Gunmen May Shift Al-qaida Strategy

  Fox 6

  By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his u...

• Critics Of Justice Dept. Lawyers Under Fire

  Fox 6

  By DEVLIN BARRETTAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal comm...

• Mass. Patron Who Paid For Conjoined Twins' Op Dies

  Fox 6

  BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. A. Raymond Tye...

• Ex-freshman, Veteran Kingpin Equal Democratic Woes

  Fox 6

  By LARRY MARGASAKAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - One is a former Democratic freshman little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y., district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpi...

• Ga.'s System To Defend The Poor Still Reeling

  Fox 6

  By GREG BLUESTEINAssociated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's public defender system is still trying to recover its financial footing five years after a courthouse gunman racked up a $3 milli...

• Gates Regrets Northrop Withdrawal From Tanker Bid

  Fox 6

  A U.S. MILITARY BASE IN SOUTHWEST ASIA (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he regrets that a major defense contractor has pulled out of the contest to build a badly needed new Air Force pl...

• Few Young Blacks Pursue Medicine

  Montgomery Advertiser

  African-Americans currently make up nearly 13 percent of the U.S. population but only 4.4 percent of all U.S. physicians and surgeons. They are considered an underrepresented minority (URM) in medicin...

• Bellingrath Jr. High May Become A Middle School

  Montgomery Advertiser

  Montgomery Superintendent Barbara Thompson is recommending that Bellingrath, scheduled to open in August, be the first school to make the switch to the district's proposed middle school concept.

• Missouri Mom Talks To Prattville Residents About Effects Of Bullying

  Montgomery Advertiser

  PRATTVILLE -- For today's young people, bullying isn't just a shove on the playground or a hateful comment spoken in the school hallway. It's attacks that the victim can't seem to escape.

• Wetumpka High To Ramp Up Ap Enrollment

  Montgomery Advertiser

  Wetumpka is one of 20 Alabama high schools chosen to take part in the A+ College Ready program. It is the first Elmore County school to participate.

• Police Arrest Suspect In Stabbing Of Elderly Man

  Montgomery Advertiser

  The 82-year-old victim told police a man knocked on his door about 1 a.m. Feb. 17 and then attacked him with an unknown weapon when he opened the door.

• Wednesday House Fire In Montgomery Caused By Lightning

  Montgomery Advertiser

  The department received a call about the fire about 5 p.m., and personnel were on the scene in three minutes, Assistant Fire Chief William Davis said.

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