February 18, 2010 -
History was made yesterday in North Carolina when a special panel of judges declared innocent a man who served 17 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.
February 17, 2010 -
An Alabama creekkeeper has filed a complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency citing health threats including runoff containing alarmingly high arsenic levels at a bankrupt l
February 16, 2010 -
NOTE: The following contribution comes from Claudia Rowe, a writer with the Equal Voice newspaper of the Marguerite Casey Foundation. By Claudia Rowe, Equal Voice By now, the drumbeat is impossible to ignore: Job, jobs, jobs. With one in 10 adults unemployed, President Obama had little choice but to highlight jobs during his Jan. 27 State of the Union address. He mentioned the term nearly 30 times during the hour-long speech.
February 15, 2010 -
Alabama Attorney General Troy King (R) has joined with industrial interests to take TVA's side in the company's appeal of a U.S. District Court decision ordering four TVA plants -- one in Alabama and three in neighboring Tennessee -- to curb their air emissions.
February 12, 2010 -
U.S. unemployment rate in January 2010: 9.7%
