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AL: Higher education leaders estimate costs for 2011 budget year

By Markeshia Ricks

State higher education officials estimate that they will need between $40.4 million and $501.2 million more in state funding to keep the state's two-year colleges and four-year universities afloat during fiscal 2011.

AL: Alabama rolls out new U.S. 280 toll road plan

By Ginny MacDonald and Michael Tomberlin

State transportation officials are ready to move forward with a $710 million makeover of U.S. 280 -- a new plan that doesn't rely entirely on elevated toll lanes that doomed a previous proposal to unsnarl the congested highway.

MS: Victims' kin in civil-rights era cases sought

By Jerry Mitchell

The FBI is seeking to find family members of 33 people slain during the civil rights movement. A third of those killings took place in Mississippi, including that of Jimmie Lee Griffin, whose body was discovered on a highway near Sturgis on Sept. 24, 1965.

AL: US survey -- Southern counties most obese

By Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press

ATLANTA -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia, with two Alabama counties -- Greene and Dallas -- having adult obesity rates that are among the highest in the nation.

AL: Judge named to hear suit over state computer contract

By Bob Lowry

Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb on Thursday appointed a Jefferson County judge to hear a lawsuit filed by a legislative committee trying to block a $13 million no-bid computer contract.

AL: Alabama A&M will cut jobs this academic year, president tells faculty and staff

By Lee Roop

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- An estimated 800 Alabama A&M University faculty and staff jammed a campus meeting hall today seeking any clear word on how many of their jobs will survive the current academic year.

AL: White Rock: EBSCO dumped hazardous waste

By Malcomb Daniels

At a press conference today, representatives of White Rock Quarries, a company that wants to put a limestone quarry in Vincent, said EBSCO Industries is trying to block the project to hide 15 years of illegally dumping hazardous waste from its nearby plant.

AL: Mobile County Democrats suit dismissed; court action challenged chapter dissolution

By Sean Reilly

MOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile County Circuit Judge Rick Stout has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Alabama Democratic Party's decision to dissolve its Mobile County chapter earlier this year.

AL: Baldwin's new coroner officially appointed by governor

By Craig Myers

ROBERTSDALE, Ala. -- After two months as interim Baldwin County coroner, Stan Vinson has been officially appointed by Gov. Bob Riley, he and other local officials said.

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