Alabama

Two bodies were discovered Monday afternoon at the site of a motorcycle wreck along Cherry Avenue in Brookside, authorities said.

Chelsea Michelle Rowe, 17, of Roebuck and Travis Walker, 38, of Brookside were killed in the wreck not far from Republic Road, said Randy Christian, spokesman for the Jefferson County Sheriff Department.

Family members last saw Rowe Saturday, said a family member.

The motorcycle on which the two were riding apparently ran off the road in the 3200 block of Cherry Avenue. Investigators believe the wreck happened some time on Saturday or early Sunday morning, Christian said.

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MONTGOMERY — Several consumer and tax groups are urging legislators to reject a tax measure backed by the governor’s administration to raise taxes for companies that drill for natural gas off Alabama’s coast.

The proposal has been approved by the House Government Appropriations Committee but has not yet been brought up before the whole House.

Consumer and tax groups gathered Monday on the steps of the Alabama Statehouse to protest the measure. They say it will increase energy prices for consumers and industry, damage the state’s economy and cause a loss of jobs.

Some U.S. Christian conservatives are up in arms over some Vanity Fair pictures of one Miley Cyrus. I never heard of her before and from what I can gather she is some young rich girl doing TV. The "scandal" created 864+ google news links that will help her to move into Jodie Foster territory and sell her new CD. The blame is now moved away from Disney, the general profiteer of the case, onto Annie Leibovitz who took those quite decent shots. Well, one can always blame the Jews …

Not availabe as major U.S. MSM news is how Afghan officials pulled some Indian soap operas from Afghan TV for being "un-Islamic". To say so in U.S. media would somehow be ‘controversial’.

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Fred Kagan has written a somewhat schizophrenic piece in the Weekly Standard on A definition of success in Iraq

Virtually everyone who wants to win this war agrees: Success will have been achieved when Iraq is a stable, representative state that controls its own territory, is oriented toward the West, and is an ally in the struggle against militant Islamism, whether Sunni or Shia.

Further into the piece we learn that:

- Iraq is largely stable

Violence is the most obvious indicator of instability and the easiest to measure.

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New apartments are going up at the Bass Pro center. At Spanish Fort Plaza a new exercise gym will open 24/7 next to the post office. And in daphne a new Tai restaurant opens next to Rama imports, and a new credit union.

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Like LuLu’s and the Warf, the Hang Out is family beachside fun food and music but not on the intercoastal but right on the beach next to the Pink Pony. The city owns the strip.

The EOCC College Aviation Center at Brookley Field offers classes with junior and senior high school credits and 10 semester college credits according to the Spanish Fort Sun newspaper 4/24. May 3 a tour of Mobile Aerospace Engineering, Mobile largest private employer, is offered at an open house a Brookley. SF Principal Mike Lucci began the program at Daphne 6 years ago and now has brought it to Spanish Fort.

The ad on coastal Alabama has lawyers ready to help you beat the bust, and the latest gear. Another approach might be to not drink and drive. The first offense you are sent to DUI school which includes AA meetings. You need not wait to get busted. The AA meetings are 11am weekdays at the alano club on mcrae street. you need not give your name.

Alabama receiver DJ Hall told the Mobile Press-Register this afternoon that he has agreed to join teammate Wallace Gilberry as a free-agent signee with the New York Giants. Hall was also considering an offer from the Detroit Lions. DJ Hall made his mark at Alabama. Now he’ll try with the reigning Super Bowl champs. “They just seemed the most interested, willing to take a chance,” Hall said. “I’m not the person that’s going to turn a lot of things down. I just want the opportunity, and they’re giving it to me.” Here is the Press-Register’s breaking news update. Hall’s agent Ed Rowan confirmed the signing later today. Hall, who had a record-breaking career at Alabama, was among the Crimson Tide contingent shut out of this weekend’s draft. (Read the full post about ‘DJ Hall agrees to deal with Giants’…)