Alabama Notes » Mobile http://alnotes.com Alabama News Optimized for Mobile Devices | BETA Mon, 21 May 2012 20:10:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Seven Birmingham area high schools among best in country, Newsweek says http://alnotes.com/seven-birmingham-area-high-schools-among-best-in-country-newsweek-says/ http://alnotes.com/seven-birmingham-area-high-schools-among-best-in-country-newsweek-says/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 18:40:07 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/seven-birmingham-area-high-schools-among-best-in-country-newsweek-says/

Schools in Mobile, Huntsville, Auburn and Madison all make the top 1,000 Read more from The Birmingham News

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BAY MINETTE, Alabama — Four students were transported to a Bay Minette hospital this morning following after an SUV rear-ended a school bus on Ala. 59 at the entrance to Chandler’s Mobile Home Park near Stapleton, according to a press release by Baldwin County Public Schools

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MOBILE, Alabama — The Bayou La Batre corruption trial got under way with Mayor Stan Wright this morning.

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MOBILE, Alabama — A Cuban immigrant who accidentally was released from jail 3 years ago pleaded guilty last week to participating in a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation in Eight Mile.

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MOBILE, Alabama — A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge last week approved an agreement in which the mansion of a deceased entrepreneur from Baldwin County will be given to a company that won a $10.4 million lawsuit against him.

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MOBILE, Alabama — A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge last week approved an agreement in which the mansion of a deceased entrepreneur from Baldwin County will be given to a company that won a $10.4 million lawsuit against him.

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]]> http://alnotes.com/bankruptcy-judge-approves-agreement-to-transfer-montrose-windows-house-to-lawsuit-victor/feed/ 0 Judge to hear allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in Stephen Nodine case (with poll) http://alnotes.com/judge-to-hear-allegations-of-prosecutorial-misconduct-in-stephen-nodine-case-with-poll/ http://alnotes.com/judge-to-hear-allegations-of-prosecutorial-misconduct-in-stephen-nodine-case-with-poll/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 11:09:07 +0000 Alabama Notes http://alnotes.com/judge-to-hear-allegations-of-prosecutorial-misconduct-in-stephen-nodine-case-with-poll/

A Baldwin County judge today will hear fresh pleas from former Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine’s attorneys to throw out the murder case against him or at least move the trial to another county.

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A partial eclipse was briefly visible in greater Mobile in the last few minutes before sunset this evening.

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A 49-year-old woman was severely injured this morning when a pack of stray dogs attacked her at a trailer park on Bohannon Road near Georgetown, the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said.

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MOBILE, Alabama — A federal judge in Mobile last week sentenced Fayad Bassam Azzam to probation for marriage fraud and handed him over to immigration authorities for deportation proceedings.

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