Police say suspected Maoist rebels attacked a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding 25 others.More >>
About 200 suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in the country's east, killing at least 28 people and...More >>
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(RNN/KENS/CNN) - At least one person in San Antonio has died Saturday during heavy flooding caused by rain that dumped more than a foot of water on some parts of the area. Police confirmed a woman's bodyMore >>
Firefighters in San Antonio are still looking for two missing people after heavy rain and flooding swamped the area and left thousands without power.More >>
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(RNN) - Two-year-old girls rule the world. If you in any way doubt that statement, you obviously do not have nor have ever had a 2-year-old girl. One thing that Matt Clarke made abundantly clear in a video heMore >>
Two-year-old girls rule the world. If you in any way doubt that statement, you obviously do not have nor have ever had a 2-year-old girl.More >>
Hoover Police say crooks are phishing for financial information using text messages that appear to come from a real bank.The text messages come from different numbers with different area codes and it tellsMore >>
Hoover Police say crooks are phishing for financial information using text messages that appear to come from a real bank.More >>
TUSCALOOSA,AL (WBRC) - One man was stabbed and another man injured during a fight at the Blue Creek campground in Northeast Tuscaloosa County. Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Deputies received a 911 callMore >>
One man was stabbed and another man was injured during a fight at the Blue Creek campground in Northeast Tuscaloosa County. Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Deputies received a 911 call around 1:00 A.M. this morning on an assault.More >>
It appears Chief Justice Roy Moore will appeal the recent ruling requiring the ten commandments monument be removed from the state judicial building. If he does, the legal fees could reach into the millions of dollars.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which represented the plaintiffs in the case, claims the taxpayers will eventually foot that bill. However, Chief Justice Moore is insisting that he will pay for it all himself, even if it means mounting a fundraising campaign. SPLC attorneys say that claim isn't very believable. "That's a bit of a shell game," said Richard Cohen.
It appears that Moore's expenses may not be the only thing the state ends up paying for. Cohen says he's filing a motion that would require the state to also pay the plaintiffs' attorney fees. "In a civil rights case, the defendant must pay the plaintiffs attorney fees and costs if the plaintiff prevails," he says. "We have won and we will submit a petition to Judge Thompson to order the state of Alabama to pay our costs."
So how much has all this cost so far? To date, it's in the thousands. If there's an appeal, "you may be looking at several million dollars," says the SPLC's Morris Dees. "The state of Alabama is too poor to have to bear that burden."
But it's a burden we will bear if the battle over the monument rages on. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta is next in line to hear the case. In the meantime, the chief justice was given until December 18th to remove the monument.
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