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Next board meeting is May 22
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The next meeting of the Cherokee County Board of Education is Tuesday, May 22, 2012 and will be held at the Central Office. The Board Meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Items on the agenda include: A. ...
Governor Bentley Signs Immigration Law Revisions
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MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Friday signed House Bill 658, a bill designed to simplify and clarify Alabama’s existing immigration law, commonly known as House Bill 56. “We needed to ...
Things to do in Cherokee County weekend of Friday and Saturday, May 19-20
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Saturday, May 19 The Cherokee County Public Library has on ongoing book sale. Get paperbacks for as little as a dime and hardbacks for as little as 50 cents or $1. The library is open today from 8...
Arrest Report Saturday, May 19
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Local law enforcement agents have made the following arrests in recent days: -Melissa L. Lockridge on court order. -Bobby J. Hendrix for domestic violence in the third degree. -Russel J. Pross...
Governor Bentley Signs Immigration Law Revisions
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MONTGOMERY – Governor Robert Bentley on Friday signed House Bill 658, a bill designed to simplify and clarify Alabama’s existing immigration law, commonly known as House Bill 56. “We needed to ...
Next board meeting is May 22
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The next meeting of the Cherokee County Board of Education is Tuesday, May 22, 2012 and will be held at the Central Office. The Board Meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Items on the agenda include: A. ...
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Retail rent on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue soars

A commuter walks down Fifth Avenue past a store front advertising winter clothing in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - The price for staking ground on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue jumped 22 percent in the past year, spurred by a record number of tourists spending their dollars at top U.S. and international retailers on America's most coveted shopping ground. The asking rent for street-level stores on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 59th streets rose to $2,750 per square foot this spring, the Real Estate Board of New York said in a report released Friday. ...


Fri May 18 16:37:23 UTC 2012
Jury deliberations in Edwards trial to resume next week

Former U.S. Senator John Edwards walks to the federal courthouse in GreensboroGREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jurors weighing whether former U.S. Senator John Edwards illegally used campaign funds to conceal an extramarital affair when he ran for president headed home on Friday and will resume deliberations next week. A judge let the jury go for the weekend after 5-1/2 hours of discussions. Earlier Friday, jurors asked to review more than a dozen prosecution exhibits. Among the evidence they requested were notes from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a wealthy donor to Edwards' campaign, and testimony from her lawyer, Alex Forger. ...


Fri May 18 16:18:42 UTC 2012
Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge charged with corruption
(Reuters) - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin was charged on Friday with illegally using her taxpayer-funded staff to campaign for her seat on the state's highest court. Orie Melvin was suspended from the bench on Friday, a day after nine criminal counts against her were recommended by a grand jury in Common Pleas Court in Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania. She is the third sister in a prominent Pennsylvania political family to be charged with corruption. ...
Fri May 18 16:41:41 UTC 2012
U.S. soldier to stand trial for 2009 Iraq shooting
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier accused of killing five fellow servicemen at a military combat stress center in Baghdad in 2009 has been ordered to stand trial in a U.S. military court, officials said on Friday. Sergeant John Russell, who could face the death penalty if convicted, is accused of going on a shooting spree at Camp Liberty, near the Baghdad airport, in an assault the military said at the time could have been triggered by combat stress. ...
Fri May 18 17:58:24 UTC 2012

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