Alabama

One man that missed the game on tv on WKRG CBS was Keith McCants, Mobile, Alabama and NFL football great in jail again.

Many Gulf coast sailors cross from Tampa to the central Gulf to stop and fuel or rest. But the Coast Guard had to rescue this boat after a 30,000 square mile search. Here is the story from wkrg.com: The Coast Guard has located two sailors missing since Monday. One of the men, 68-year-old Thomas Edwards, is from Gulf Shores.
On Saturday, Edwards and his friend, Charles Daggett, left Clearwater, Florida aboard a 35-foot sail boat called Fly Away. They were supposed to arrive in Panama City on Sunday, before continuing on to Corpus Christi, Texas.
But the men never made it to Corpus Christi, so Daggett’s wife called the Coast Guard Monday.

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This is the time to buy Mobile native plants for your garden city.

Watch CBS this weekend as Cinderella heads for the Final Four. Even Labron James was impressed by Currie 30 points including a no look reverse lay out basket after the foul.

What does juvenille crime and the new war movie have in common in Mobile, Alabama? Mobile is like every city in America: we have kids commiting crime out of boredom, and we have citizens wondering what to do. The movie tells a grim picture of billions spent in Iraq and not in America. We have a war for the hearts and souls of this current poor generation that is destroying the core of America. Go see Stop Loss, then go drive through poor black Mobile, then do something. Have hope. Help folks. Vote.

A rally today at Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute was an occasion to renew ownership of the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, numerous speakers said in slightly different words.

“We are here to recommit,” said the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who was pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Collegeville from 1953 to 1961 before leaving to become pastor of a church in Cincinnati. He is back in Birmingham to undergo rehabilitation for a stroke he suffered last year.

An estimated 200 people attended the 10 a.m. rally, and at least that many participated in a march earlier in the morning to commemorate one of the earliest civil rights marches and honor early leaders in the movement.

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Nearly 1,000 people crammed into every corner of St. Paul’s Cathedral in downtown Birmingham Saturday to witness Monsignor Joseph Marino ordained as an archbishop.

The more than two-hour ceremony was so steeped in tradition, with a full mass, eight bishops and many metro-area priests, that Marino couldn’t help but be in awe. “I’m overwhelmed,” he said after the ceremony. “I think this is such a celebration for the city.”

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Marino as a Vatican diplomat, called a papal nuncio, to Bangladesh. Marino had a choice between having his ordination at the Vatican or in Birmingham.

“Birmingham is my home,” he said.

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A State Trooper wrecked and flipped his car on Interstate 20/59 near Birmingham-Southern College today as he chased a motorcycle, Trooper spokesman David Richards said.

The trooper vehicle came to rest upside down on the right shoulder of the northbound interstate lanes about 100 yards west of Arkadelphia Road. Trooper Michael Juran, 42, was alert and talking but taken to UAB Hospital for treatment, Richards said. Juran has been a state trooper since 1985.

Richards said he didn’t know what instigated the chase.

Walter Bryant

At least 200 people, mostly white, showed up for a march in Birmingham this morning to commemorate one of the city’s earliest civil rights marches in May 1963 and honor the men who organized it.

The Birmingham City Schools’ Parental Involvement Committee will hold a seminar Sunday to let parents know how to help their children do their best on the standardized tests that will be given in grades three through eight over the next two weeks.

The seminar will be at 4 p.m. at Arrington Middle School at 2101 Jefferson Ave. The Rev. Michael Wesley, pastor of Greater Shiloh Baptist Church, will be the keynote speaker.

Students begin taking the Alabama Reading and Math Test and the Stanford Achievement Test Monday and will continue for two weeks. Those assessments are a part of the accountability tests required by the federal No Child Left Behind law.

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