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Baldwin United Way sets $905,000 goal
United Way of Baldwin County supporters plan to raise at least $905,000 during the 2010 campaign to help 42 agencies and many residents hit hard by a recession and oil spill, supporters announced Thursday.
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BP's top local official says response has moved to 'deep cleaning' of beaches
“At the very peak of this response, we had more than 48,000 people deployed. Today, we still have 30,000 people. It’s still a significant response,” Utsler said, speaking of the entire response spanning Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. “What will change is the type of workforce we use and where we use them.”
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Alleged Fairhope shooter, former Daphne football standout, turns himself in to police
FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- Chazdin "Chaz" Cottrell, a 20-year-old suspect in the nonfatal shooting of a 21-year-old man in south Fairhope on Wednesday, turned himself in to Fairhope police Thursday afternoon, police said.
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Baldwin County school system's athletic director, administrative services coordinator jobs eliminated
BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Just two months into his tenure, Baldwin Superintendent Alan Lee continued a reorganization this week, eliminating the school system's athletic director job and the administrative services coordinator slot.
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Funeral service set for father and son who died in Flomaton wreck
A visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Norris Funeral Home in Bay Minette for Stephen Carl Thompson, 33, and his son, Nathan, 9. The funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Hand Avenue Baptist Church, and burial will follow in Bay Minette Cemetery.
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Property acquisition pondered in Gulf Shores: Council to meet in closed session this morning to consider purchase
GULF SHORES, Alabama -- Elected officials plan to meet this morning in a closed session to discuss a potential public land acquisition.
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Labor Day weekend ends a lost summer on Alabama beaches
What significance is Labor Day weekend if, like this summer, there was no traffic inching down Ala. 59 every Saturday afternoon? Or 90 days of hours-long waits at every restaurant in town? Or pillaged supermarket shelves and empty service station beer coolers?
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After a week, oil spill cleanup workers get paid by Bell Tech
After a wait of almost a week, Bell Tech Consultants and Skimmers began paying workers overdue checks Thursday for their work cleaning boats used in oil spill response operations, a BP PLC spokesman said.
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Suspect in Spanish Fort ATM burglary attempt previously charged with murder, police say
Spanish Fort police have identified one of three men suspected of crashing a stolen van into a gas station and trying to make off with an automatic teller machine earlier this week.
Through several tips, police Thursday identified one of the men seen in surveillance video as 24-year-old Derrick Centell Myles of Prichard, whose prior arrest record includes a murder charge, police said.
All the men remained at large Thursday evening.
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Alleged Fairhope shooter turns himself in
FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- Chazdin Cottrell, a 20-year-old suspect in the Wednesday afternoon shooting of a 21-year-old man in south Fairhope, turned himself in to Fairhope police this afternoon, police said.
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