Burnt-Corn News

“If we don't, there will be another fine and write up I'm sure.”

PATRICKM@CULLMANTIMES.COM The Hanceville Water and Sewer Board needs money to repair damaged sewer lines in the area and Wallace State Community College is doing everything possible to ensure funding becomes ... via Cullman Times

Posted by Chris Pow April 17, 2008 9:35 PM Elliott McPherson and the Dexateens decided to impart a very special gift upon their fans - one they most definitely cannot afford to give away for free, but they did. via Alabama Live

Question: I would like to add a few azaleas to my yard. Which ones should I purchase? Answer: Seeing so many fantastic azaleas at a plant nursery, garden center, or public garden all at once is quite a ... via Montgomery Advertiser

Posted by Victoria L. Coman April 11, 2008 10:34 AM Epic Elementary kindergarten through second-graders are taking the slumber party approach to promote reading on April 17. via Alabama Live

The director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is optimistic about the Earth's climate. via WAAY-TV Huntsville

Civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth has been discharged from an Alabama rehabilitation hospital where he was being treated for a stroke. via WKRC-TV Cincinnati

“The reason for the co-sponsorship is that each of these prestigious chapters has new members that are great-granddaughters of the honoree”

The combined efforts of two United Daughters of the Confederacy chapters will pay tribute to a Confederate soldier at 10 a.m. today at Midway Cemetery, 11886 County Road 1113, one block west on Lake Placid from ... via Tyler Morning Telegraph

“After further verifying their locations, a warrant was obtained for Soper, and the pair was arrested in Vermont on Monday”

Updated 54 minutes ago A convicted sex offender who registered in DeKalb County now faces charges in Vermont after he allegedly failed to register when he moved states. via Times-Journal

“Really, I think it was all my father”

Family members are mourning an Army colonel who had worked at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and who is only the ninth solider of his rank to have been killed in the Iraq war. via The Mississippi Press

“We felt like we did the best we could.”

BWOODBY@CULLMANTIMES.COM Days after emergency crews responded to storm damage throughout downtown Cullman, agency representatives met to discuss Friday's disaster response and put the pieces of the event ... via Cullman Times

“She's at least as bad as I feared”

Since breaking onto the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court in 2007, Democratic Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb has sided with her GOP brethren more than 90 percent of the time. via Alabama Live

“It addresses two of my closest and most precious things: improving access to health care and the welfare of our children”

More than 5,000 uninsured Birmingham children will receive health care coverage under a partnership of the city, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and Children's Hospital, Mayor Larry Langford announced ... via Birmingham News Online

Gadsden State volunteers will be making much-needed changes and repairs to the shelter. via NBC13.com

“The resident lawyers in Conecuh County didn't want the position because it paid so little”

Alabama's first female chief justice is supporting a bill that would set experience requirements for the state's judges even though it would have prevented her appointment as a judge three weeks after becoming ... via Montgomery Advertiser

“Huntsville, Alabama, proves that every city, no matter its size and location, can hop onto the green wagon. National Geographic's Green Guide has placed this town at number 9 among the top 10 green cities in the U.S.”

Here's some things I learned in Huntsville this week: We're "green," according to Move Trends . via About.com

“The economy has changed since then, and I don't know if as many opportunities are going to be available this time”

Representatives of Georgia-Pacific and at least a dozen local and state agencies met at City Hall Monday morning to discuss ways to help G-P's 380 employees find work as quickly as possible after the Talladega ... via Daily Home

“Whenever we go to the meth labs in operation, we find traps set for us”

Members of the Coffee Commission will decide how community enhancement funds are used if the county applies for another one-year grant from the Southeast Alabama Regional Planning and Development Corporation. via The Enterprise Ledger

“We could not have anticipated the impact Katrina would have on our economy.”

By David Lazenby davidl@cullmantimes.com HANCEVILLE - State dignitaries, community leaders and Wallace State Community College officials crowded the lobby of the school's Bailey Center Wednesday to get a sneak ... via Cullman Times

'Coming by Force, Overcoming by Choice' A visual Art Exhibition by the National Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. via Montgomery Advertiser

“The history of blacks in America breeds distrust. That's why it is so critical for the church, black and white, to show some degrees of trust. We've got to get over it. We've got to get past it.”

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, left, stands with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. via Tuscaloosa News