Jay Reeves

January 21, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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August 04, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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February 26, 2010 | Daily Report Online

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. AP - Two longtime Alabama Democrats received prison sentences of at least four years Friday for bribing ousted Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford.U.S. District Judge Scott Coogler ordered a sentence of four years and four months for Bill Blount, a Montgomery investment banker and former chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party.

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February 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

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September 24, 2012 | Daily Report Online

An ex-university professor who pleaded guilty to shooting six people during a faculty meeting in Alabama was in court Monday for an abbreviated trial.

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March 03, 2008 | National Law Journal

A federal judge dismissed a criminal contempt charge against attorney Richard Scruggs on Friday, ruling that an Alabama court lacked jurisdiction to charge the prominent lawyer with contempt for allegedly ignoring an order to turn over documents about insurance claims after Hurricane Katrina. The decision won't affect a more serious case in Mississippi, where Scruggs is accused of conspiring to bribe a judge over $26.5 million in attorney fees stemming from a Katrina-related settlement with State Farm.

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November 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - A judge ordered a prominent Alabama businessman to pay $8 million to his daughter, who claimed he subjected her to three decades of sexual abuse that began when she was a preschooler and included a rape the night she was crowned homecoming queen at her high school.Circuit Judge Helen Shores Lee ruled against Fred M.

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November 17, 2008 | Daily Report Online

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. AP - Marsha L. Houston, a professor at the University of Alabama, was so happy Barack Obama won the presidency that she put up a poster of the soon-to-be first family on her office door after the election.First, someone ripped down the poster. When she put up another, someone scrawled a racial slur on it along with a death threat against the first African-American to win the White House.

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February 01, 2013 | Daily Report Online

More than three days after authorities said a gunman shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, the man showed no signs Friday of turning himself over to police.

By Jay Reeves and Melissa Nelson-Gabriel

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December 19, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - A soggy December has helped much of the South recover from a drought that dried up reservoirs and turned crops and lawns to straw for the last two years, according to a federal report released Thursday.A year ago, thousands of square miles across the region were considered in "extreme" or "exceptional" drought, the government's two worst categories.

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