Higher education leaders estimate costs for 2011 budget year

By Markeshia Ricks, Montgomery Advertiser

State higher education officials estimate that they will need between $40.4 million and $501.2 million more in state funding to keep the state's two-year colleges and four-year universities afloat during fiscal 2011.
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Alabama rolls out new U.S. 280 toll road plan

By Ginny MacDonald and Michael Tomberlin, The Birmingham News

State transportation officials are ready to move forward with a $710 million makeover of U.S. 280 -- a new plan that doesn't rely entirely on elevated toll lanes that doomed a previous proposal to unsnarl the congested highway.
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Victims' kin in civil-rights era cases sought

By Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)

The FBI is seeking to find family members of 33 people slain during the civil rights movement. A third of those killings took place in Mississippi, including that of Jimmie Lee Griffin, whose body was discovered on a highway near Sturgis on Sept. 24, 1965. Read More

US survey -- Southern counties most obese

By Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press, Montgomery Advertiser

ATLANTA -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia, with two Alabama counties -- Greene and Dallas -- having adult obesity rates that are among the highest in the nation. Read More

Judge named to hear suit over state computer contract

By Bob Lowry, The Huntsville Times

Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb on Thursday appointed a Jefferson County judge to hear a lawsuit filed by a legislative committee trying to block a $13 million no-bid computer contract. Read More

Alabama A&M will cut jobs this academic year, president tells faculty and staff

By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- An estimated 800 Alabama A&M University faculty and staff jammed a campus meeting hall today seeking any clear word on how many of their jobs will survive the current academic year. Read More

White Rock: EBSCO dumped hazardous waste

By Malcomb Daniels, The Birmingham News

At a press conference today, representatives of White Rock Quarries, a company that wants to put a limestone quarry in Vincent, said EBSCO Industries is trying to block the project to hide 15 years of illegally dumping hazardous waste from its nearby plant. Read More

Mobile County Democrats suit dismissed; court action challenged chapter dissolution

By Sean Reilly, Mobile Register

MOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile County Circuit Judge Rick Stout has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Alabama Democratic Party's decision to dissolve its Mobile County chapter earlier this year. Read More

Baldwin's new coroner officially appointed by governor

By Craig Myers, Mobile Register

ROBERTSDALE, Ala. -- After two months as interim Baldwin County coroner, Stan Vinson has been officially appointed by Gov. Bob Riley, he and other local officials said. Read More

Gov. Bob Riley (R)
Elected: November 2002, 2006
Term expires: January 2011

	State capital: Montgomery
	State nickname: The Heart of Dixie
	Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom, Jr. (D)
	Secretary of State Beth Chapman (R)
	Attorney General Troy King (R)
	Senate President: Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom, Jr. (D)
	Senate Pro Tem: Rodger Smitherman (D)
	House Speaker: Seth Hammett (D)

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