From the daily archives:

Monday, July 5, 2010

Dothan murder suspect declared competent for trial

July 5, 2010

State officials recently found a Dothan man competent to stand trial on a charge he shot his wife to death after he spent more than two years receiving treatment at state mental health facility.

University of Alabama honors lists

July 5, 2010

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Construction work on I-20/59 will cause delays

July 5, 2010

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Ala. men hope Route 66 trip on CNG proves a point

July 5, 2010

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July 4th partiers fall 3 stories; 1 dead

July 5, 2010

A wooden deck crumpled under a group of Fourth of July partiers in Alabama, killing one person and injuring six others.

After fireworks, the cleanup begins

July 5, 2010

Most folks slept in late on Monday as government offices and most businesses observed the Independence Day holiday. But Chad Trull and a couple of his co-workers were up with the sun.

Bingo leads talking points as runoffs near

July 5, 2010

One of the biggest issues the next Alabama attorney general will face is unfolding in the state’s courts and on dusty roads in rural Greene County as two lawyers campaign for the Democratic Party’s nomination to the legal post in the July 13 runoff.

Residents question strip mine proposal

July 5, 2010

A proposal to strip mine land near the Black Warrior River is inching toward reality but has not lost its detractors three years after the University of Alabama sought bids to work the land.

Bentley, Byrne collect public endorsements

July 5, 2010

With the Republican gubernatorial runoff a week from today, Robert Bentley and Bradley Byrne are racking up public endorsements as they try to win voters who chose other candidates in the June 1 primary.

Relief well is best hope, but what if it doesn’t work?

July 5, 2010

As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more confident that the relief well it expects to complete in August will succeed where all previous efforts to