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FBI sting operation foils plot to blow up bridge

May 1, 2012

The FBI announced charges for five people arrested in connection with a plot to blow up a bridge near Cleveland. The men were identified as Douglas L. Wright, 26; Brandon L. Baxter, 20; Anthony Hayne, 35; Connor C. Stevens, 20; and Joshua S. Stafford, 23.

Writer says blacks treated worse after slavery

February 24, 2012

TUSCALOOSA | In the 80 years after the Civil War, blacks in the U.S. endured conditions that were in some instances worse than slavery, author Douglas Blackmon said during a lecture Thursday night on the University of Alabama campus.

Home sales down, rental up

January 22, 2012

Mark Douglas knows about the tough housing market.

Marshall County teen killed in ATV wreck, another seriously injured

January 17, 2012

State troopers said a boy and girl were riding a four-wheeler on Welcome Home Church Road near Douglas at about 6:30 when the boy lost control and crashed.

Judge orders vintage military aircraft owned by Shelby County man forfeited to US government

January 9, 2012

The forfeited Douglas AD-4N Skyraider that Claude Hendrickson said he purchased from a private owner in France more than two years ago and brought into the country is headed to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola.

Marshall County to improve nearly half of county’s emergency warning sirens

December 29, 2011

A federal grant will be used to improve 16 of the county’s 40 sirens in such places as Asbury, Douglas, Mount Hebron, Pleasant Grove and Whitesville.

Alabama AG's office seeks execution date for Arthur

October 25, 2011

Thomas Douglas Arthur was sentenced to die for the 1982 murder-for-hire killing of Muscle Shoals businessman Troy Wicker. He has been on death row for 28 years.

State seeks execution date for inmate on death row 28 years

October 25, 2011

Thomas Douglas Arthur, 69, was sentenced to die for the 1982 murder-for-hire killing of Muscle Shoals businessman Troy Wicker. At the time Wicker was killed, Arthur was on work release for a 1977 homicide.

Longtime Eagle editor remembered as kind, dedicated

October 4, 2011

The Wiregrass lost a news and sports legend on Saturday with the passing of Douglas A. Bradford, a former Dothan Eagle editor and longtime local fixture in sports reporting.

Author of book banned by Alabama prison didn’t meet resistance during research

October 3, 2011

“To be honest, these events had slipped deep enough into the past that there weren’t very many people who even knew to be cautious about them,” Douglas A. Blackmon tells The New York Times.

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