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- Alabama's Home Sales Are Up, Dothan Follows
- Last month Alabama saw a 13 percent increase in home sales compared to October of 2008. The numbers are from the Alabama Center For Real Estate. "Sales are picking ... the state has seen a year-over-year increase in homes. "Dothan has…
- WTVY
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- Boys ranch, like its youth, needs help
- In this Oct. 26, 2009 photo, a resident of the Boys Ranch rakes leaves at one of the ranch's houses, in Decatur, Ala. Alabama sheriffs founded the Youth Ranch Program in the 1960s for needy, abused and neglected children. (AP Photo/The…
- Daily Jeffersonian
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- Report: 5.16% Mobile area homeowners 'upside-down' on mortgage
- MOBILE, Ala. -- In Mobile, 2,678 properties with a mortgage had negative equity as of September 2009, about 5.16 percent of the total mortgaged properties, according to First American CoreLogic , which provides national real estate market…
- Everything Alabama Blog
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- Son's donation inspires mother
- His family's foundation has also supported several other institutions, including the McWane Science Center, United Way of Central Alabama, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the University of Alabama. In 2006, the Alabama chapter of the…
- Rotary International
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Rotary International- Federal judge approves Dauphin Island erosion settlement
- Waves wash underneath houses on the west end of Dauphin Island, Ala. DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. -- A federal judge today approved a settlement over erosion on Dauphin Island that grants property owners $1.5 million for rebuilding beaches. The…
- Everything Alabama Blog
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- Will Obama Appoint "Rabid Republican" to Key Alabama Post?
- ... Shelby have a voice at all with a Democrat in the White House and a solid Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. Johnson has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama under controversial Bush…
- OpEdNews.com
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- 11/18/2009
- Unusual Connections to Montgomery, Alabama
- Above photo by Ed Walsh of Alabama's Capitol in Montgomery ... Historic Union Station This Victorian building now houses the Visitor’s Center and Depot Gift Shop but at one point the town of Montgomery actually had six railroads running…
- Examiner
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- 11/22/2009
- As Bank Failures Rise, F.D.I.C. Fund Falls Into Red
- The government-administered insurance fund that protects depositors fell into the red for the first time since the fallout from the savings-and-loan crisis of the early 1990s as the pace of bank failures accelerated. The fund had a negative…
- New York Times
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- Spring Hill GM plant is idled
- SPRING HILL — At its peak, about 7,800 people clocked in daily for work at the Saturn plant. "Now we're down to 630 people," said Darren Tonoli, a General Motors employee of nearly three decades. The plant goes on standby Wednesday, turning…
- Nashville Tennessean
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- Maersk Alabama Captains Were Classmates Before Battling…
- Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The man who captained the Maersk Alabama as it repelled a pirate attack off ... patrolling our streets, and yet there are still burglars and they still manage to hit houses every night,” Gurnon said. “It is the exact…
- Bloomberg
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- 11/18/2009