| April 24, 2008 | -
John McCain's campaign received a $1,000 discount on the rental fee for a public space for a fundraiser in Homewood, Alabama, along with $100 worth of free labor from the inmates of a local jail.
| Source:
Birmingham News
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| May 27, 2007 | - An 11-year-old boy had reportedly killed a thousand-pound wild pig after a three-hour, nine-bullet chase through the woods of eastern Alabama. “It's a good accomplishment,” said the boy. “I probably won't ever kill anything else that big.”
| Source:
AP via USA Today
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| March 4, 2007 | - A tornado ravaged Alabama.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 11, 2007 | - Dan Gulley Jr., an Alabama septuagenarian, turned himself in to police after shooting his friend David Brooks Jr. twice in the stomach during a quarrel about the height of deceased soul singer James Brown.
| Source:
Breitbart
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| March 13, 2006 | -
Mad cow disease was found in Alabama
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
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| May 23, 2005 | - Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama said that a routine by television host Bill Maher bordered on treason. Maher had said that the Army had already picked all of the “low-lying fruit” like Lynndie England, and now needed “warm bodies.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| April 27, 2005 | - A state representative in Alabama put forward a bill that would prohibit school libraries from purchasing books by gay authors. The measure died when not enough state legislators showed up to vote.
| Source:
CBS Evening News
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| March 2, 2005 | - A toddler was lost in the Alabama woods; police, firemen, and family friends searched for him in vain. Finally, he was rescued by a three-legged dog.
| Source:
NBC 13
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| February 22, 2005 | - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case challenging the Alabama law that makes it a crime—punishable by a year in jail and a $10,000 fine—to sell vibrators, dildos, anal beads, and artificial vaginas.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 5, 2004 | -
Alabama police were chasing a gang of cross-dressing car thieves.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 16, 2003 | - Thousands of dead catfish washed up in Alabama.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 28, 2003 | - Judge Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument was removed from the Alabama supreme court building as Christians howled in anger outside, blowing ram's horns and shaking Bibles at the sky; the state was forced to hire a company from Georgia for the job because no one from Alabama would do it.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Alabama's board of education
voted to put a sticker with a disclaimer on biology textbooks stating that “evolution is a controversial theory.”
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| August 28, 2001 | -
Alabama governor Don Siegelman proclaimed that if God had wanted boys to wear earrings, He would have made them girls.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Alabama's legislature approved a bill extending the law banning pimps and madams to cover prostitutes as well.
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| May 15, 2001 | -
Alabama raised the legal marriage age to 16.
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| May 8, 2001 | - Thomas E. Blanton, a former Kluxer from Alabama, was found guilty of killing four black girls in 1963, when he bombed a Birmingham church.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Alabama's
senate approved a bill that would allow video gambling machines to be installed at dog tracks.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Alabama's
senate approved a constitutional amendment allowing the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools and state offices.
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| March 6, 2001 | - The school superintendent of Mobile, Alabama, proposed doing away with all extracurricular activities, including football, after the state imposed mandatory budget cuts. All Alabama was aghast.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Vandals broke into the Civil Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama, and ripped up about 30 photographs of state troopers beating marchers on Bloody Sunday in 1965; a Ku Klux Klan hood was stolen from the museum two weeks ago.
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| December 5, 2000 | - The governor of Alabama gave Rosa Parks a Medal of Honor For Extraordinary Courage.
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