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Serious charges
      The case against Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose has been building from before he ever took office in January 2007. This newspaper was aware of many of the instances alleged in the official complaint of the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission but could not report any of them because no one was willin...
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Senate fights OK
      Perhaps our state legislators- especially our esteemed senators- need to take their boxing gloves to Montgomery for the session that began this week. Last year's punch by Sen. Charles Bishop, RJasper, of Sen. Lowell Barron, D-Fyffe on the Senate floor made the news around the world and prompting...
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Natalee Holloway
      We figured that the truth about the Mountain Brook teen-ager who went missing in Aruba during a high school vacation would eventually be known. Now it may be. Joran Van der Sloot, a Dutch student long suspected in the death of Natalee Holloway, confessed on hidden camera in the Netherlands to hi...
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Polls not always right
Inside the Statehouse
Steve Flowers
      You have an advantage over me because you know the results of Tuesday's balloting and I do not because I had to go to press prior to Tuesday's primary voting. However, today the big question is whether the February 5th voting winnowed out the field and gave us clear cut frontrunners?
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Bush gives State of Union for last time
Congress Reports
      Last week, members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the cabinet, the Supreme Court, and the diplomatic corps gathered in the House chamber to listen to President George W. Bush deliver his eighth and final State of the Union address.
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The Great Cat Hunt
Gone South
      I have told this story many times. I usually tell it to friends I trust to appreciate the irony of it, but who would never think ill of me for the telling. It gives me no delight or comfort. I tell you now only because recently I wrote about how feral cats are at least as big a threat to the e...
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