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Rogers nonetheless in prison
State Rep. John Rogers has been ordered to stick put in the Cullman County Jail till he can discover a residential state of affairs in which a chaperone can stay him from violating bond, stories AL.com’s Hannah Denham.
That was once the order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Staci Cornelius, who had Rogers jailed this previous Monday after he FaceTime referred to as a witness for the prosecution in his bribery case.
Rogers, a Birmingham Democrat, has every other listening to set for Monday.
Nitrogen hypoxia, finally?
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall mentioned the Alabama Supreme Court has given the state the go-ahead on what might be the primary execution via nitrogen hypoxia, stories AL.com’s Mike Cason.
Kenneth Eugene Smith beat, stabbed and killed Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett for cash in 1988 in Colbert County. He’s been convicted via juries two times, confessed to the crime and has been on Death Row since 1996.
While the Legislature licensed using nitrogen hypoxia as a type of execution, no state has but used it. And Smith’s legal professionals have vowed to proceed to pursue their felony choices.
As of this recording, the governor has but to set a timetable for an execution.
Wawa’s enlargement
The big-brand comfort retailer/shuttle middle industry is rising in the Southeast, with those huge chains discovering good fortune providing distinctive reviews.
Buc-ee’s, with its Texas-sized retail outlets, brisket and buying groceries now has 4 places in Alabama. Stuckey’s has reportedly been coming round again at the industry aspect, with its Georgia control leaning extra into sweet manufacturing.
Wawa is far much less well known in Alabama — it’s, in spite of everything, a Philadelphia-based East Coast chain — however that’s converting as places stay opening at the Gulf Coast.
The Wawa other folks broke floor Thursday at a Mobile location, stories AL.com’s Lawrence Specker. They simply held a groundbreaking in June for the Fairhope retailer, and they introduced long term places in Mobile and Semmes.
Remembering Ken (T.Okay.) Mattingly
NASA showed Thursday that former astronaut and Auburn University graduate Ken Mattingly has gave up the ghost. His complete title was once Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, and many knew him as T.Okay.
Mattingly began out as a Navy pilot. His profession highlights come with flying the command module in an orbit across the moon all over the Apollo 16 touchdown and his position serving to the craft and team of the ill-fated Apollo 13 undertaking safely again to earth after he was once taken off that flight as a result of he’d been uncovered to rubella.
If you’ve noticed the movie “Apollo 13″ — and it should be a U.S. citizenship requirement that you have — you might know he was portrayed by the great actor Gary Sinise.
Mattingly also flew space shuttle missions.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958. After a Space Shuttle Columbia landing in 1982, President Reagan even introduced Mattingly and fellow crewman Henry Hartsfield as “sons of Auburn.”
Ken Mattingly was once 87 years previous.
Quoting
“It looks like I’ve been in a gang fight and my gang didn’t show.”
Alabama trainer Nick Saban, who confirmed as much as Wednesday’s press convention with a proper eye that seemed totally bloodshot.
By the numbers
9,100: That’s what number of fewer scholars are enrolled in colleges in comparison to 10 years in the past.
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Born in this date
In 1963, NFL Pro Bowl take on Howard Ballard of Ashland. He performed at the Buffalo Bills Super Bowl groups of the early 90s.
On the calendar
Don’t overlook to set your clocks again an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. Here’s these days’s sure spin: Big lovers of sleep could possibly hit the sack an hour previous (8 p.m.? 7 p.m.?) till their our bodies regulate.
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