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(RNN) – A day after long track tornadoes devastated Shawnee and Edmond, OK, another round has begun near Oklahoma City.KOCO broadcast a slow rotating cloud that slowly extended down towards the groundMore >>
At least 51 have died in a storm the National Weather Service described as large and violent.More >>
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Gov. Robert Bentley has signed the state General Fund budget and state education budget into law. The governor's press secretary, Jennifer Ardis, announced Monday night that Bentley had signed bothMore >>
Gov. Robert Bentley has signed the state General Fund budget and state education budget into law. The governor's press secretary, Jennifer Ardis, announced Monday night that Bentley had signed bothMore >>
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The Alabama Legislature has authorized city and county school systems to hire armed security guards to protect students. The Senate voted 21-0 Monday to go along with changes the House made to a schoolMore >>
The Alabama Legislature has authorized city and county school systems to hire armed security guards to protect students. The Senate voted 21-0 Monday to go along with changes the House made to a schoolMore >>
By CHRIS TALBOTT AP Music Writer Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74.More >>
By CHRIS TALBOTT and HILLEL ITALIE AP Entertainment Writers Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's...More >>
BIRMINGHAM,AL (WBRC) - The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta is scheduled to hear arguments Thursday from the state and federal government over Alabama's new immigration law, also known as HB56.
The state of Alabama should get a sense of what parts of the state's new immigration law are most likely to stand, and which parts may never be enforced based upon the questions asked by the three-judge panel.
The panel will include Judge Charles Wilson, nominated by President Clinton, Judge Beverly Martin, nominated by President Obama, and visiting Judge Richard Voorhees, nominated by President Reagan.
The state and federal government, along with outside groups including the Southern Poverty Law Center, will have 30 minutes to make oral arguments and answer the judges questions at the court Thursday.
Judge Sharone Lovelace Blackburn's ruling last fall allowed the state to enforce major portions of the law including verifying students immigration status at school. The appeals court later temporarily stopped it but the state will be asking to lift that stay.
The State will also ask the appeals court to allow it to enforce parts of the law that Blackburn stopped, such as making it illegal for illegal aliens to enroll in public colleges or making it illegal to hire someone off the side of the road for work.
Opponents of the law will ask the appeals court to stop parts of the law that did go into effect, including a provision that requires you to carry proof of citizenship at all times.
Opponents will also ask to stop part of the law that requires law enforcement officers to verify citizenship if a person is stopped for a traffic violation and the officer has a reasonable suspicion that person may be in the country illegally.
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