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Another Local Ghost…or Two?
We’ve always wondered why the spirit of an unnamed student who reportedly jumped from an O’Neal Hall window and the ghost of an unidentified construction worker from the 1970s are always presented as...
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Billy Hammock/He Said What?
It may be a toss-up as to which local election is the most heated, but certainly the race with the most candidates is that for Lauderdale County license commissioner. We’ve recently run a short...
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A.I. & Oliver Brazelle
AI, the common abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence, has been around for a long time, but a particular version of AI veritably stormed onto the scene about 15 years ago with Sony’s introduction of...
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Doc Larry Knows?
Hi, everyone. Prince here. I just had to put in my two dog biscuits about a recent comment from your (hey, I’m not claiming him) state senator Larry Stutts. Some folks don’t know that before Doc Larry...
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Rogersville Police/Lauderdale Community Corrections
Do Rogersville Police and Lauderdale County Corrections know where everyone is?From an anonymous source in eastern Lauderdale County:Apparently, a Rogersville police officer recently called 911 from...
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Invest in What, Eh?/Robert C. Fuller
It seems that Rob Adolph Carnegie, that veritable avatar of tourism in Northwest Alabama, is seeking investors in his branding project. Investors to pay for advertising? We have no idea what these...
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Richard Shelby, Guns, & Sex
Richard Shelby is Alabama’s long-sitting US senator. Surprise: He’s running again. Bigger surprise: His campaign ads show him holding a gun. Biggest surprise: He simply won’t be defeated in the...
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They Were Caught, So Who Suffered?
When two city employees are caught in the act (on a table in a public office no less), which one is fired? If you guessed the male, you just haven't been paying attention for...oh, your whole life. It...
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Battling Baptists v. Marauding Methodists?
We fully understand that the Muslim religion can be compared in scope to the Christian religion. Just because some factions are murdering, raping cannibals, not all of them are. Yet we’ve always said...
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Republican Platform/Angel Gieske
A reader asked our opinion on the Republican platform for the upcoming session. Much of it is good, but we can easily see three of the platform’s planks that are not so good. Let’s look at them. *...
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Divorces/Lawsuit?
Leslie M. Shoals is a frequent contributor to our blog. Leslie has keen insights into one of the Quad-Cities and never fails to offer pithy opinions on current events in that town. Leslie has sent us a...
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Attorney Billy Underwood's Statement on Accused Don Tipper
Donald Tipper is a long time Florence attorney who is accused of having forcible sex with a client in the Keystone Center on Seminary Street in Florence in 2011. Really? Our personal opinion is the...
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Florence v. St. Florian Redux
It hasn’t been that long ago that the town of St. Florian lamented how unfair it was of Florence to suggest the cessation of a defective sewer line service to a mobile home park located in that small...
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Trials?/Justin Green
If there were no more delays or a plea deal put in place, the Theft by Deception trial of Angel Gieske in Walker County and the Drug Distribution trial of Brady Ann Irons in Lauderdale County were to...
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Rape?/Florence Animal Shelter
We’ve received several communications about the alleged rape that recently resulted in the arrest of a local attorney and our blog concerning the case. First, we’ve published statements from Mr....
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Omitting Jerry Don/Angel Again
A reader asked us why we didn’t include Jerry Don Crowden and John Wesley Akin in our list of five local bad boys that haven’t left the system in over six or more years. The same of Crowden can be...
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Where's the Gym?
If you’re a regular reader of Rheta Johnson’s weekly column, you know she lives just outside Iuka, Mississippi—not quite the Big Apple, but bigger than Rascaltown. In her most recent column, she...
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Civil Rights Infringement in Johnson Trial
The perjury trial of Shawn Johnson began this morning. We've been informed that while members of Keith Barnett's family were allowed in the courtroom, the father of Johnson, a man in his 70s, was not...
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Judicial Follies?/Martha Norton
We've been made aware that the father of Shannon Johnson was allowed into proceedings today. According to reports, and they vary, the bottom line is that it was all a mix-up yesterday. The younger...
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A Tale of Two Christophers
Grant Campbell Mug ShotWe’ve recently received two communications asking us to advocate for certain people. Let’s look at the first one:Chris Martin – Chris was convicted of manslaughter in the death...
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