Jay Reeves

July 01, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - Mayor Larry Langford joined with an investment banker and a political friend Monday in asking a court to throw out a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing them of a sweetheart scheme involving bond deals.In court papers, all three men said the SEC lacked the power to file the complaint because the agency does not regulate the type of transactions at the center of the lawsuit.

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July 12, 2012 | Daily Report Online

The daughter of University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban is being sued by a sorority sister who claims the two got into a fight over a Facebook post after a night of drinking.

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August 18, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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January 27, 2012 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - An Alabama defense attorney who has worked on more than 60 capital murder cases has written a new book questioning what he calls the flaws in the death penalty.Richard Jaffe details many of the cases in his long career and says he hopes it will invite people to question the death penalty system.

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April 04, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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January 14, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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February 07, 2013 | Daily Report Online

An Alabama coroner says the body of a man who held a 5-year-old hostage for nearly a week before being killed in a shootout with the FBI received 'multiple gunshot wounds.'

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April 23, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - Fired HealthSouth Corp. Chief Executive Richard Scrushy reached an $81 million settlement to end a lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission blaming him for a $2.7 billion accounting fraud at the heath care services company.U.S. District Judge Inge Johnson approved the settlement Monday.

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February 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

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August 13, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and HealthSouth Corp. founder Richard Scrushy have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn their federal bribery convictions, claiming it wasn't illegal for Siegelman to name Scrushy to a powerful state board after getting political campaign funds from Scrushy.

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