Fireworks safety
      Independence Day and fireworks go together like ice cream and cake but we all need to remember some legal and safety restrictions before we light the fuses this Fourth. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission tells us that about 9,000 people are treated for fireworks-related injuries each yea...
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A busy year so far!
Inside the Statehouse
Steve Flowers
      As we approach mid-year 2007 allow me to offer to you a glimpse of events and happenings in Alabama politics in potpourri fashion. A lot has happened, the continuing unraveling of the Jr.
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Take judge to cleaners
      An administrative law judge's attempt to take a dry cleaner to the cleaners has failed and rightly so. Washington, D. C. administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson took three dry cleaners' displayed promise of "Satisfaction Guaranteed" to an extreme.
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Coffeeville turns 200 next year
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Jim Cox
      Last Thursday I became a tour guide of sorts as I was asked to accompany the Grove Hill United Methodist "Upper Youth" to Coffeeville and tell them about the town and its history prior to the main reason for the trip- a catfish lunch at Bobby's
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