State and Regional News

PSC approves option for Alabama Power to cut air conditioner use

01-07-2009

MONTGOMERY � Alabama Power will give customers a way to save $20 annually by allowing the electric utility to cut off their home air conditioners for brief periods on the hottest weekdays of summer.

Study: Alabama doesn't give oversea voters enough time

01-07-2009

MONTGOMERY — Overseas military voters from 16 states and the District of Columbia are not given enough time to cast their ballots, partly due to reliance on snail mail, a new study shows.

01-06-2009 Headlines

� Alabamians spending less, except for alcohol

� Ohio company chosen for state broadband project

01-05-2009 Headlines

� Cramer, Everett leave void in state's delegation

01-04-2009 Headlines

� Alabama Education Trust Fund plunges

� Baldwin cyclist struck by car, killed

� Cannons from Confederate raider Alabama preserved

01-03-2009 Headlines

� I-85 extension hinges on next highway bill

01-02-2009 Headlines

� Holiday gunfire in Mobile injures 7-year-old girl

� Man convicted of UAB slaying linked to another months earlier

� Alabama Supreme Court declines death penalty case

� Mike Hubbard to run again for GOP chairman

� Feds want state to repay $5.7M in disaster funds

� Tim James praises Riley's gambling task force

� Etowah County man dies after jumping from car

� Caraustar plant closing in Linden

01-01-2009 Headlines

� Holmes wants new leaders for Alabama House panels

� AG threatens to seize electronic bingo in Etowah

� Alabama has coal ash ponds at 9 locations

� Court to hear suit on double dipping

� Alabama troopers to expand patrols

12-31-2008 Headlines

� 2 charged in chase through Etowah, DeKalb counties

� Alabama's jail backlog creeps up again

12-30-2008 Headlines

� Riley forms task force to probe gambling

� Civil rights leader hospitalized

12-29-2008 Headlines

� Last of burned Alabama churches to be rebuilt

12-28-2008 Headlines

� Federal wildlife workers struggle to save fish

� ALDOT to start work on interchange in Birmingham

� Survey: Alabama hospitals cutting workers, services

� South Alabama man jailed for setting fire to home

� Financial debacle tops state news stories of 2008

12-27-2008 Headlines

� Birmingham agents to provide security at Obama inauguration

� Members to rebuild church after fire

12-26-2008 Headlines

� Mobile pharmacy a last resort for some

� Alabama meets goals in project to collect data

� Business not booming for Montgomery payday lenders

� 1 dead when car drives into home on Christmas Eve

� Now hiring: Mobile federal court seeks magistrate

� 3 survivors, 2 men and a dog, of fatal Salem fire recovering

12-24-2008 Headlines

� State to get $35 million from drug suit

� Birmingham planning inaugural party

� Jackson County deputies collect loans for payday lenders

� Veteran UAB cop charged with rape

� Man charged in killing of Daphne woman

� Just married Alabama soldier dies in Iraq

12-23-2008 Headlines

� Report: State's largest cities plagued by toxic air

� Alabama bill aims to limit spending in judicial races

� Cuts could mean state worker layoffs

� Court grants Riley request in A&M suit

12-21-2008 Headlines

� Children get giving message at home, school

12-20-2008 Headlines

� 11,000 lose jobs across Alabama during November

� Alabama AG criticizes State Bar's action

� State Bar creates panel to help Legislature

� State nursing homes fare well in survey

� Ex-policewoman wins discrimination suit

� Florence mom avoids jail in child abuse case

� Space museum lacks funds for retired shuttle

12-19-2008 Headlines

� Judge declines separate trial for state Sen. E.B. McClain

� Officers take 50 dogs from 'puppy mill' outside of Pell City

12-18-2008 Headlines

� Rep. Davis all but announces intentions for governor race

� Drought Monitor: Most of North Alabama out of 2-year drought

� Ex-Riley aide gets state job amid hiring freeze

� Alabama Shakespeare Festival cuts 'Les Miserables' production

12-17-2008 Headlines

� State legislators look at gambling tax

� Artur Davis says he was vetted for education secretary

12-16-2008 Headlines

� Alabama work force development officials say state in good position

12-15-2008 Headlines

� Riley to announce education budget proration today at news conference

� Alabama imposes limit on big catfish

� Many Alabamians looking for health coverage that fits

12-14-2008 Headlines

� Grand jury returns indictments in probe of community college

� Suspect in Bessemer man's slaying leads police to body

12-13-2008 Headlines

� NWS: Rains helped drought in Alabama

� Appeals court sides with state on railroad tax suit

� Silver Star record: Huntsville soldier's team awarded 10 medals

� State congressman being vetted for Obama position

� Alabama Supreme Court sides with Exxon Mobil

� Winter weather closes schools in north Alabama

12-12-2008 Headlines

� Alabama soaked with inches of rain ahead of cold front

� Alabama GOP senators say phase out grocery tax

� 50 people across Alabama arrested for welfare fraud

� Suspicious powder on mail bag was cleaning solution

� Riley says he will not run for any public office in 2010

� State schools prepare for funding cuts

12-11-2008 Headlines

� No eyewitnesses heard in civil rights slaying

12-10-2008 Headlines

� Appeals court hears Siegelman, Scrushy arguments

� Passerby finds baby in bag along Bessemer road

� Steel maker to hold job fairs in Alabama

12-09-2008 Headlines

� Siegelman optimistic about today's appellate court hearing

� Suspicious letters sent to governors

� Foe of Roy Moore's law license suspended

� Rep. Davis forms rival committee on political appointees to Obama

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