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| State bird | Yellowhammer |
| State flower | Camellia |
| State song | "Alabama" |
| State tree | Longleaf Pine |
| State spirit | Conecuh Ridge |
| State reptile | Red-bellied turtle |
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Vulcan Run 10K Winners
Frank Couch - The Birmingham News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:01:15 -0000
Laban Moiben (bib 4) won the Vulcan Run with a time of 29:30 and second place finisher Peter Matelong was on his heels with a time of 29:32. Janet Cherobon was the first female finisher with a time of 33:35. The Vulcan Run, a 10K race run along the winding streets Birmingham, Alabama Saturday November 7, 2009. ( The Birmingham News / Frank Couch )
Sunny weekend for the Birmingham area
The Birmingham News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:55:00 -0000
Highs in the mid-70s today and Sunday. The National Weather Service forecast for the Birmingham area calls for sunny skies today, with a high near 73. Tonight's low near 45.Sunshine continues Sunday, with a high near 75. Sunday night's low 54.There's a 20 percent chance of showers after 11 a.m. Monday, with a high near 72. Likelihood of showers increases Monday night to 70 percent. Low around 57.
UAB celebrates homecoming
Linda Stelter -- The Birmingham News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:10:05 -0000
Students, faculty turn out for parade. Electrical engineering student Jessica Ford was Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch during UAB's homecoming parade on Friday, saying that both Sesame Street and UAB are celebrating their 40th anniversary. (The Birmingham News / Linda Stelter)
Breaking News from the Press-Register
Jackson County, Miss., employee arrested for embezzlement
Cherie Ward Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0000
A Jackson County, Miss., employee was charged with embezzlement Friday afternoon, after an internal investigation by sheriff's investigators. Ginger Lashley A Jackson County employee was charged with embezzlement Friday afternoon, after an internal investigation by sheriff's investigators. Sheriff Mike Byrd said Ginger Lashley, who has been suspended from the county finance department, was accused of taking about $125,000 from the county coffers this year. "We've called the state auditor's office to go through the books," the sheriff said. "We think this has been going on for several years. They'll be the ones to go through all the books and determine how much it actually is." Byrd said officials with the state auditor's office would arrive Tuesday to assist with the investigation. Board President and Supervisor Manly Barton said county officials are pursuing this matter fully. "We have several financial checks and balances in place; nonetheless, this situation did occur," Barton said. "We are going to take all the appropriate steps to keep this from happening again. As public servants, our first responsibility is to be good stewards of the taxpayers' money." Lashley, 49, lives on Pine Hurst Drive in St. Andrews. She was in the Jackson County Adult Detention Center on Friday afternoon awaiting an initial hearing before a county judge. The hearing was expected to be Monday.
Update: Ida spurs tropical storm warnings in Caribbean; storm could hit Gulf Coast next week
The Associated Press Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:38:34 -0000
MIAMI -- Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters. MIAMI -- Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters.A hurricane watch was also issued for part of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.The warnings were issued for parts of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba. A tropical storm warning was also in effect for Grand Cayman Island.A tentative forecast track from the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami shows the storm could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.Tropical Storm Ida, which was packing winds of 60 mph (95 kmh), was expected to approach the Yucatan Channel on Sunday.Ida was moving toward the north at about 9 mph (15 kmh). It was centered about 255 miles (410 km) southwest of Cozumel, Mexico.It was Tropical Depression Ida that emerged into the steamy waters of the Northwest Caribbean on Friday, where it regained strength and moved north.By the time it nears shore, however, the National Hurricane Center expects it to lose steam as it slurps in cooler air and cooler waters from the Northern Gulf of Mexico."The forecasters feel pretty confident that it is going to start losing its tropical characteristics," said center spokesman Dennis Feltgen on Friday. 'We don't see it turning into a hurricane in the Gulf."Still, the state emergency operations center in Tallahassee, Fla., was monitoring Ida's track and urging residents to do the same. Ida, even if it weakens below tropical storm strength, could hit some part of the Gulf Coast with heavy rains, rough seas and strong winds as early as Wednesday.By Monday, the center expected Ida to brush the Yucatan Peninsula and cross in the Gulf of Mexico. From there, forecasters admit to a great deal of uncertainty.The official forecast track had Ida, weakened to an extratropical system, hooking northeast toward the Big Bend area of Florida on Wednesday. But the window of possible tracks was large, stretching from Key West to New Orleans.Ida formed with less than a month left in the hurricane season, which officially ends on Dec. 1, but that's not all that unusual. The average, said Feltgen, is one or two a year with most, like Ida, forming in the late season hurricane hot house of the Caribbean.
Baker High students brave marsh muck to restore natural sites
Gary McElroy Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:27:55 -0000
MOBILE, Ala. -- On the northeast side of the Dog River Bridge along Dauphin Island Parkway, phragmites (frag-mite-us) once grew more than 14 feet tall inside a small estuary that curves toward the bridge from the bay at Helen Wood Park. (Press-Register/Mary Hattler)Students from Baker High School plant grass as part of a program to restore natural sites. MOBILE, Ala. -- On the northeast side of the Dog River Bridge along Dauphin Island Parkway, phragmites (frag-mite-us) once grew more than 14 feet tall inside a small estuary that curves toward the bridge from the bay at Helen Wood Park. Through a kind of twisted, biological adaptation of its own, the "phrag," officials say, emits toxins in the water that kill off all other, more benign plants. "Nothing else survives in it," said Mobile Bay National Estuary Program project manager Tom Herder. But in a multi-year project conducted by the local NEP -- and adapting the volunteer services of various high school environmental science programs and their students and teachers -- the "phrag" is being cleared. This 3.5-acre marsh that is underwater at high tide and a mud flat in low, will have plants whose names roll out softer on the senses -- Southern wild rice, bulrush, pickeral weed, duck potato, black needle rush. On Friday, students from Baker High School braved the muck and mud to place this colorful vegetation, but not without consequences. Hunter McDaniel, a 17-year-old senior, was, he said, "decommissioned" early in the day, thanks to a small cut on his foot. He observed from solid ground barefooted, in shorts, with dry gray mud clinging to the lower third of his tall frame as though he were wearing a pair of hideous knee socks. (Press-Register/Mary Hattler)Students from Baker High School aren't afraid to get their feet muddy as they work on the grasses at Helen Wood Park on Friday. Wrangling the pack of 30, mud-splattered teenagers was their environmental science and botany instructor, Jennifer Stevens, a Mobile County Teacher of the Year who earned the honor last year, but certainly not for being timid. On a day when nearly 3,000 new plants took hold in the marsh, Stevens' drill-instructor voice rang down to the pistils inside 60 ears, following a short rest break: "Adam, Randy, Briana, Austin, Adam, move it. Hannah, let's go!" During one break, two young men had traded the deep mud clinging to them for the shallow water, wading and washing themselves as they made their way farther and farther into the bay, the water still only ankle deep. When it looked as though they intended to walk on over to the Eastern Shore, Stevens' voice boomed: "Austin, Brandon, come back!" "They're neat kids," she said of the duo. She turned to walk toward Herder. "Tom, what do you want us to do?" Some male wag lagging behind with the majority yelled a hopeful query across the parking lot: "Time to go?" "No!" Stevens yelled back. "She's killing me," one young woman said affectionately a few minutes earlier. But Herder's project assistant, Christian Miller, said the students were "doing great. You couldn't ask anymore from them." "They really carried the ball today," Herder agreed. By the time they all arrived to stand in the sun in a semi-circle surrounding Herder, he was telling them with an equal measure of zeal and reverence, "You've got to treat this stuff with great respect.
montgomeryadvertiser.com - News
'It is horrifying'
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:26:00 -0600
FORT HOOD, Texas -- An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.
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Vulcan Run 10K Winners
Frank Couch - The Birmingham News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:01:15 -0000
Laban Moiben (bib 4) won the Vulcan Run with a time of 29:30 and second place finisher Peter Matelong was on his heels with a time of 29:32. Janet Cherobon was the first female finisher with a time of 33:35. The Vulcan Run, a 10K race run along the winding streets Birmingham, Alabama Saturday November 7, 2009. ( The Birmingham News / Frank Couch )
Sunny weekend for the Birmingham area
The Birmingham News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:55:00 -0000
Highs in the mid-70s today and Sunday. The National Weather Service forecast for the Birmingham area calls for sunny skies today, with a high near 73. Tonight's low near 45.Sunshine continues Sunday, with a high near 75. Sunday night's low 54.There's a 20 percent chance of showers after 11 a.m. Monday, with a high near 72. Likelihood of showers increases Monday night to 70 percent. Low around 57.
UAB celebrates homecoming
Linda Stelter -- The Birmingham News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:10:05 -0000
Students, faculty turn out for parade. Electrical engineering student Jessica Ford was Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch during UAB's homecoming parade on Friday, saying that both Sesame Street and UAB are celebrating their 40th anniversary. (The Birmingham News / Linda Stelter)
Breaking News from the Press-Register
Jackson County, Miss., employee arrested for embezzlement
Cherie Ward Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0000
A Jackson County, Miss., employee was charged with embezzlement Friday afternoon, after an internal investigation by sheriff's investigators. Ginger Lashley A Jackson County employee was charged with embezzlement Friday afternoon, after an internal investigation by sheriff's investigators. Sheriff Mike Byrd said Ginger Lashley, who has been suspended from the county finance department, was accused of taking about $125,000 from the county coffers this year. "We've called the state auditor's office to go through the books," the sheriff said. "We think this has been going on for several years. They'll be the ones to go through all the books and determine how much it actually is." Byrd said officials with the state auditor's office would arrive Tuesday to assist with the investigation. Board President and Supervisor Manly Barton said county officials are pursuing this matter fully. "We have several financial checks and balances in place; nonetheless, this situation did occur," Barton said. "We are going to take all the appropriate steps to keep this from happening again. As public servants, our first responsibility is to be good stewards of the taxpayers' money." Lashley, 49, lives on Pine Hurst Drive in St. Andrews. She was in the Jackson County Adult Detention Center on Friday afternoon awaiting an initial hearing before a county judge. The hearing was expected to be Monday.
Update: Ida spurs tropical storm warnings in Caribbean; storm could hit Gulf Coast next week
The Associated Press Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:38:34 -0000
MIAMI -- Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters. MIAMI -- Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters.A hurricane watch was also issued for part of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.The warnings were issued for parts of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba. A tropical storm warning was also in effect for Grand Cayman Island.A tentative forecast track from the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami shows the storm could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.Tropical Storm Ida, which was packing winds of 60 mph (95 kmh), was expected to approach the Yucatan Channel on Sunday.Ida was moving toward the north at about 9 mph (15 kmh). It was centered about 255 miles (410 km) southwest of Cozumel, Mexico.It was Tropical Depression Ida that emerged into the steamy waters of the Northwest Caribbean on Friday, where it regained strength and moved north.By the time it nears shore, however, the National Hurricane Center expects it to lose steam as it slurps in cooler air and cooler waters from the Northern Gulf of Mexico."The forecasters feel pretty confident that it is going to start losing its tropical characteristics," said center spokesman Dennis Feltgen on Friday. 'We don't see it turning into a hurricane in the Gulf."Still, the state emergency operations center in Tallahassee, Fla., was monitoring Ida's track and urging residents to do the same. Ida, even if it weakens below tropical storm strength, could hit some part of the Gulf Coast with heavy rains, rough seas and strong winds as early as Wednesday.By Monday, the center expected Ida to brush the Yucatan Peninsula and cross in the Gulf of Mexico. From there, forecasters admit to a great deal of uncertainty.The official forecast track had Ida, weakened to an extratropical system, hooking northeast toward the Big Bend area of Florida on Wednesday. But the window of possible tracks was large, stretching from Key West to New Orleans.Ida formed with less than a month left in the hurricane season, which officially ends on Dec. 1, but that's not all that unusual. The average, said Feltgen, is one or two a year with most, like Ida, forming in the late season hurricane hot house of the Caribbean.
Baker High students brave marsh muck to restore natural sites
Gary McElroy Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:27:55 -0000
MOBILE, Ala. -- On the northeast side of the Dog River Bridge along Dauphin Island Parkway, phragmites (frag-mite-us) once grew more than 14 feet tall inside a small estuary that curves toward the bridge from the bay at Helen Wood Park. (Press-Register/Mary Hattler)Students from Baker High School plant grass as part of a program to restore natural sites. MOBILE, Ala. -- On the northeast side of the Dog River Bridge along Dauphin Island Parkway, phragmites (frag-mite-us) once grew more than 14 feet tall inside a small estuary that curves toward the bridge from the bay at Helen Wood Park. Through a kind of twisted, biological adaptation of its own, the "phrag," officials say, emits toxins in the water that kill off all other, more benign plants. "Nothing else survives in it," said Mobile Bay National Estuary Program project manager Tom Herder. But in a multi-year project conducted by the local NEP -- and adapting the volunteer services of various high school environmental science programs and their students and teachers -- the "phrag" is being cleared. This 3.5-acre marsh that is underwater at high tide and a mud flat in low, will have plants whose names roll out softer on the senses -- Southern wild rice, bulrush, pickeral weed, duck potato, black needle rush. On Friday, students from Baker High School braved the muck and mud to place this colorful vegetation, but not without consequences. Hunter McDaniel, a 17-year-old senior, was, he said, "decommissioned" early in the day, thanks to a small cut on his foot. He observed from solid ground barefooted, in shorts, with dry gray mud clinging to the lower third of his tall frame as though he were wearing a pair of hideous knee socks. (Press-Register/Mary Hattler)Students from Baker High School aren't afraid to get their feet muddy as they work on the grasses at Helen Wood Park on Friday. Wrangling the pack of 30, mud-splattered teenagers was their environmental science and botany instructor, Jennifer Stevens, a Mobile County Teacher of the Year who earned the honor last year, but certainly not for being timid. On a day when nearly 3,000 new plants took hold in the marsh, Stevens' drill-instructor voice rang down to the pistils inside 60 ears, following a short rest break: "Adam, Randy, Briana, Austin, Adam, move it. Hannah, let's go!" During one break, two young men had traded the deep mud clinging to them for the shallow water, wading and washing themselves as they made their way farther and farther into the bay, the water still only ankle deep. When it looked as though they intended to walk on over to the Eastern Shore, Stevens' voice boomed: "Austin, Brandon, come back!" "They're neat kids," she said of the duo. She turned to walk toward Herder. "Tom, what do you want us to do?" Some male wag lagging behind with the majority yelled a hopeful query across the parking lot: "Time to go?" "No!" Stevens yelled back. "She's killing me," one young woman said affectionately a few minutes earlier. But Herder's project assistant, Christian Miller, said the students were "doing great. You couldn't ask anymore from them." "They really carried the ball today," Herder agreed. By the time they all arrived to stand in the sun in a semi-circle surrounding Herder, he was telling them with an equal measure of zeal and reverence, "You've got to treat this stuff with great respect.
montgomeryadvertiser.com - News
'It is horrifying'
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:26:00 -0600
FORT HOOD, Texas -- An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.
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