Jay Reeves

August 17, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A quarrelsome U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held its first hearing on state laws that target illegal immigration, with Republican backers arguing Friday that the measures are vital to protecting American jobs and fighting crime.

By Jay Reeves

4 minute read

January 15, 2009 | Daily Report Online

CHATTAHOOCHEE, Fla. AP - A road atlas and campground directory discovered in the airplane cockpit of a daredevil Indiana financial manager helped lead authorities to the remote North Florida campsite where he was finally arrested.In an affidavit supporting the federal charges filed Wednesday against 38-year-old Marcus Schrenker, investigators who searched the empty cockpit after the plane crashed said they found a 50-state U.

By JESSICA GRESKO and JAY REEVES

5 minute read

March 12, 2009 | Daily Report Online

SAMSON, Ala. AP - Many residents of this quiet, close-knit farming community could hear the rapid crackling of automatic gunfire that killed nine of their neighbors. Others got frantic phone calls from friends or relatives.But none of them knew yet that the heavily armed gunman grew up among them, playing Little League baseball, graduating from the local high school and working by their sides at local factories.

By JAY REEVES and BOB JOHNSON

5 minute read

May 18, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - Richard Scrushy's federal criminal trial, which ended in his acquittal, was an entertaining, white-collar whodunit with everything from a courtroom prayer circle to a big cartoon rat.Four years later, the civil trial of a shareholder lawsuit seeking $2.6 billion from the disgraced HealthSouth Corp.

By JAY REEVES

5 minute read

January 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

QUINCY, Fla. AP - An investment manager who staged a plane crash to evade the law was barely conscious and muttered the word "die" when federal agents found him bleeding from a slashed wrist, an investigator said Wednesday.U.S. Marshals apprehended Marcus Schrenker, 38, late Tuesday at a northern Florida campground two days after the amateur daredevil pilot apparently tried to fake his own death in a plane crash.

By JESSICA GRESKO and JAY REEVES

5 minute read

October 24, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Alicia A. Caldwell and Jay Reeves

5 minute read

August 17, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A quarrelsome U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held its first hearing on state laws that target illegal immigration, with Republican backers arguing Friday that the measures are vital to protecting American jobs and fighting crime.

By Jay Reeves

4 minute read

October 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. AP - Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford's series of rapid-fire ideas to enliven Alabama's largest city including a bid to bring in the Olympics earned him the nickname of "Mayor LaLa" from his critics.The 63-year-old former TV newscaster took office in a landslide two years ago and was once mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate.

By JAY REEVES

4 minute read

December 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. AP - A leading U.S. criminal defense lawyer and a key figure in the case that ousted Alabama's Ten Commandments judge in 2003 had his law license suspended over a complaint filed by a fellow lawyer.Stephen Glassroth's legal career was derailed by a complaint to the state bar by Dana Jill Simpson, who gained wide notice last year when she made explosive claims about the prosecution of former Gov.

By JAY REEVES

5 minute read

May 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By JAY REEVES

5 minute read