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What to Expect When You're Arrested for Domestic Violence
Below is a list of what a person arrested on domestic violence charges may expect. You should note that most of these also apply to anyone arrested for any crime:* You'll be held a certain number of...
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Police Officers' Memorial Day/Life Without? We Doubt It
From the website:National Peace Officers Memorial Day falls on Sunday, May 15 in 2016. Because National Police Week takes place during the calendar week on which May 15 falls, this year's official NPW...
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What it takes to be a Law Enforcement Officer and This Week
Our friend Bobby Inman is feeling better and has forwarded us the promised essay:First of all, I want to thank all that have checked up on me the last couple of days. I had three seizures last Friday...
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Let's Play "Is Your Teacher an Idiot?"/Florence Police
Idiot Savant: It’s a term one doesn’t hear that often anymore, presumably because it’s not P.C. Briefly, it means a person of little intelligence who has a gift in one area. Sometimes we’re reminded of...
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It's Not Nice to Try to Fool Mother Shoalanda
It seems to be a local phenomenon that no one in the Shoals is ever actually arrested even though their names appear in legal documents. Or perhaps they’ve actually been arrested for a much lesser...
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Florence Mayoral Race
As it stands now, four candidates are running for the position of mayor of the Shoals' largest town:1. Mickey Haddock - Incumbent, former license commissioner2. Billy Ray Simpson - Activist, preacher,...
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Bama Bastards?
It's not unusual to see jokes online that refer to "baby mama" and "baby daddy;" however, besides being ungrammatical, these colloquialisms are no laughing matter in terms of what illegitimate births...
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William Marshall Gardner
Florence attorney Marshall Gardner passed away earlier this month. A friend and long-time reader has sent us an addendum to his obituary:William Marshall Gardner was born August 16, 1951, in Rocky...
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Another Administrative Position?/Zodiac Theatre
From the TD: New Administrator at Muscle Shoals SchoolsANOTHER ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION created to accommodate???Will MSCS hire someone experienced in Special Programs or just move another inept...
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City Elections/Return to Zodiac/Water
A guest editorial:City ElectionsAhh yes, it is that time again, the time for City and Town Elections. This is the time where Mayors and City Council members go out to “press the flesh.” They will be...
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John Pilati Update
From an informed reader:(John Frederick) Pilati's reinstatement (to the Alabama bar) was denied. I heard from a reliable source that six FBI agents showed up to testify against him. I don't think the...
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John Pilati: A Classic Case of Misdirection?
Misdirection? It’s a magician, or even a murderer, making the audience look in one direction while he or she actually performs the intended, but furtive, action. Could misdirection be what John...
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Final History Exam?/Sex in the Courtroom
School days, school days, Dear old Golden Rule days:Up in the mornin' and out to school,The teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule.American History and Practical Math,Studyin' hard and hopin' to pass.And...
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Sex, Booze, Pills, & More Sex: The Life of Chip Dillard
He came from a good Florence family; he worked hard; he became a JAG (member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps) in the military--that’s one side of Edward Ray “Chip” Dillard. The other side? While...
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No Girl Under 16/Brooks Grads Vandalism
A news story concerning one of Chip Dillard’s alleged victims has been making the rounds, but it is true? (We partially based yesterday’s blog on the article.) The account of one of Dillard’s victims...
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Memorial Day 2016
Someone's child, left long ago,A strange land,Someone's foe.An unmarked grave, fields of green,Resting quiet,Just eighteen.Winds of freedom, wash us now,Remember him,This I vowMemorial Day Poem Written...
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Strategic Undoing/Dillard is Baffled?
Here is a little ditty I call, "Strategic UnDoing". In the land of wasteful spending in Florence tourism three expensive decisions are doing nothing. #1 - Strategic Doing, whatever that means. Right...
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John Clark Burns Jr./Local Police Turnover
On July 7, 2013, John Clark Burns Jr. of Florence was arrested in that city and charged with a DUI. Sources say alcohol had been a problem in Burns’ life for quite some time.Almost exactly two months...
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Only Six Dillard/Staggs Victims
The TimesDaily recently reported that a total of seven women were allegedly victimized by Florence attorney Edward Ray (Chip) Dillard and Timothy W. Staggs; however, the indictment itself indicates...
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Facebook Predators/Two Questions
If you’re a regular reader, you’ve seen our references to “Shoalanda’s Bad Boys” from time to time. It would seem that one of these perpetual bad boys has a new game: contacting young teenage girls on...
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