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Tuesday Oct 7 | The Mobile Register Online

Bayou La Batre voters elect three council members

Voters chose two new candidates and an incumbent to serve on the City Council in today's runoff.

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Mon Oct 06, 2008

United States Department of Justice

Justice Department to Monitor Elections in Alabama

The Justice Department today announced that on Oct. 7, 2008, it will monitor the municipal election in the town of Bayou La Batre, Ala., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Montgomery Advertiser

Alabama Voices: Losing our shield

By Bruce Adkins We are trying hard to impress on everyone in the nation the value of Dauphin Island as a barrier against sea swells in protecting the whole Mobile and Baldwin County shorelines around Mobile ...

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Related Topix: Dauphin Island, AL, Alabama, Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL, Baldwin County, AL

Mon Sep 29, 2008

Crosscut.com

The geniuses who aren't on Wall Street

Chimamanda Adichie Unaffiliated Columbia, MD Age: 31 Fiction Writer exploring the circumstances that lead to ethnic conflict in richly imagined novels and stories inspired by bailing out rapacious Wall Street ...

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Columbia University, UC Los Angeles, California Institute of Technology, University of Utah

Sat Sep 27, 2008

ABC News

Gulf Coast Doctor Receives Genius Grant

Dr. Regina Benjamin, has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Macarthur Foundation for her efforts to bring quality health care to the underserved.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters

Thu Sep 25, 2008

Daily Southtown News

MacArthur Foundation awards 'genius grants'

A violin virtuoso, an architectural historian who studies ancient bridges and a family physician who rebuilt an Alabama health clinic after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina are among 25 recipients of this ...

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Tue Sep 23, 2008

WTHI-TV Terre Haute

List of 2008 MacArthur Foundation fellows

The following 25 fellows each will receive $500,000 over the next five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: Chimamanda Adichie, 31, fiction writer, Columbia, Md.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, World News, Germany, Physics, Donovan, Folk, Lake City

Mon Sep 22, 2008

The Mobile Register Online

Lawmakers representing county constituencies are working on bill to...

Mobile's annexation proposal is reigniting efforts by some rural lawmakers to shrink the city's 5-mile-wide planning jurisdiction.

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Related Topix: Mobile County, AL, Semmes, AL, Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL

Sat Sep 20, 2008

The Mobile Register Online

Mobile County Juvenile Court meeting at Grand Bay-St. Elmo Community Center

The Juvenile Court of Mobile County will hold its first Community Advisory Board meeting for concerned citizens of Grand Bay, St.

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Related Topix: Mobile County, AL, St. Elmo, AL, Grand Bay, AL, Coden, AL

Fri Sep 12, 2008

NBC 15 Online

Remembering Hurricane Frederic: Storm's 29th ...

Sept. 12 - 29 years ago, on September 12, 1979, Hurricane Frederic crashed into the Alabama Gulf Coast.

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Related Topix: Dauphin Island, AL

Thu Sep 11, 2008

Alabama Live

Bayou La Batre shipyard worker dies from electric shock

A man died after he was electrically shocked while working at a Bayou La Batre shipyard on Wednesday evening, authorities said.

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Wed Sep 10, 2008

Al.com - Everything Alabama

Pass Christian man critically injured at construction site in Bayou La Batre

A 48-year-old Pass Christian man was severely injured at a construction site in Bayou La Batre this morning.

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Tue Sep 09, 2008

International Business Times

Hurricanes add to Gulf seafood industry woes

Hurricane Gustav left shrimp rotting on vessels across southeastern Louisiana, where fishing communities without power also lack ice.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Weather, Life, Food, Seafood, Hurricane Ike, Natural Disasters

Sun Sep 07, 2008

The Mobile Register Online

Bayou La Batre gets set for 20th-annual Taste of the Bayou

The Bayou La Batre Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the 20th-annual Taste of the Bayou.

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Sat Sep 06, 2008

Alabama Live

As Gustav closes in, area residents evacuate

Sixty-one-year-old Beverly Peters and 13 of her children and grandchildren fled New Orleans Sunday with little more than a change of clothes and the hope that their homes would still be there when they ...

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Weather, Natural Disasters, Mobile County, AL, Jemison, AL

Thu Sep 04, 2008

WPMI

Gustav's Local Impact if it stays on current track

With the latest forecast track and speed, the center of Gustav is expected to make landfall along the central LA coast on Labor Day.

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Related Topix: Weather, Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL

Tue Sep 02, 2008

NBC 15 Online

NBC 15 Viewers Capture the Storm

As much of the Gulf Coast breathes a sign of relief, we are able to look at many of the magnificent moments of Hurricane Gustav captured by NBC 15 viewers.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Hurricane Gustav, Weather, Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL, Coden, AL

Mon Sep 01, 2008

The Mobile Register Online

Voluntary evacuation issued for south Mobile County

Based on the strength and uncertainty of Hurricane Gustav, Mobile County officials have issued a voluntary evacuation for Zone 1 south of I-10, said Walt Dickerson, the county's emergency management director.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Weather, Mobile County, AL, Dauphin Island, AL, Mobile Metro, Mobile, AL

Sun Aug 31, 2008

Eufaula Tribune

Riley issues mandatory evacuation for part of Ala. coast

At the request of local emergency management officials, Governor Bob Riley on Sunday ordered the mandatory evacuation of residents of low lying and flood prone areas of southern Mobile County and Baldwin County ...

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Flood, Mobile County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Weather, Coden, AL

Sat Aug 30, 2008

Dothan Eagle

Gov. Riley: No evacuation for now

Gov. Bob Riley said Saturday he did not want to order an evacuation before it is necessary but cautioned that Hurricane Gustav could change course, raising a greater threat to the Alabama coast.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Weather, Alabama, Dauphin Island, AL, Mobile County, AL

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Bayou La Batre, Alabama is located in Mobile County and is part of the Mobile Metro Area. Zip codes in Bayou La Batre, AL include 36509.

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