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By The Associated Press, Mobile Register
A former member of Gov. Bob Riley's Cabinet said today that Riley received campaign contributions from Mississippi Indians who operate casinos, with the money intended to limit their competition in Alabama.
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By Bob Lowry, The Huntsville Times
The chairman of the legislative Contract Review Committee today accused the Riley administration and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bradley Byrne of using "racially coded" messages to criticize the panel's hiring of a black lawyer.
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Lawmakers put pressure on contracts
By Phillip Rawls, The Associated Press, Montgomery Advertiser
The battle over an unbid $13 million computer contract is beginning to have an impact on how other state contracts are awarded.
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Alert system may fill rural gap
By Jason Morton, Tuscaloosa News
EUTAW, Ala. -- On Thursday, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency announced at the Greene County Courthouse the potential hiring of Global Security Systems, a Jackson, Miss.-based company that plans to bring its Alert FM system to nine West Alabama counties.
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Officers praise new computer programs
By Ashley Boyd, Tuscaloosa News
CAPS, the University of Alabama Center for Advanced Public Safety, has changed law enforcement capabilities through new computerized software programs.
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IRS seeks check recipients in area
By Cosby Woodruff, Montgomery Advertiser
The IRS is looking for 257 taxpayers in the River Region in order to give rather than to receive. The IRS is looking to give those people, and more than 1,000 others around Alabama, refund checks that were misdirected or otherwise undeliverable.
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