After Sunday storms brought rain to some parts of the metro area, today’s forecast calls for sunny skies, according to the National Weather Service.
There were some reports of storm damage in central Alabama, but not in the seven-county Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area.
Trees were downed across Talladega’s Oak Grove community, causing significant roof damage to the New Wine Ministries Church. No injuries were reported.
This year’s revaluation of real estate in Jefferson County shows evidence of slumping housing values in metro Birmingham, even though most homeowners will see their home’s tax value increase.
“This is the first obvious soft market in real estate that I’ve seen in 16 years as chairman,” said Otis Brown, head of the county’s Board of Equalization.
A single death on Alabama’s lakes over the Fourth of July weekend would push the state past last year’s total for boating fatalities, Marine Police say.
A University of Alabama student from Iowa has been identified as the fourth person killed in a plane crash this morning near the Walker County airport
. Frank Couch/The Birmingham NewsAn Alabama State Trooper patrol car turns into a wooded area where a plane crashed this morning after taking off from Walker County-Bevill Field, killing all four people on board.
Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a homicide after a man was found dead outside of an apartment in Center Point, according to the sheriff’s office.
Anybody who is long oil, i.e. bets on higher crude prices, has an interest to instigate War on the 70+ million people of Iran.
The weekend’s action around Peshawar in the Pakistani province Khyber Agency seems to have been a ruse. The Pakistani government sent in local paramilitaries to fight alleged Taliban there. But there was not much of a fight at all. The LA Times writes:
With plenty of warning from officials that troops were coming, Islamic insurgents in the mountainous Bara district outside Peshawar, the provincial capital, had simply melted away, disappearing into a remote valley to the north.
It may have been even more of a show as Syed Saleem Shahzad reports for ATOL:
Riding with the paramilitary convoys was Haji Namdar, the chief of the self-proclaimed pro-Taliban organization Amal Bil Maroof Nahi Anil Munkir that is based in Khyber Agency.
Tony Pugh writes for McClatchy on Credit ripoff: How a $100 purchase turns into a $1,000 debt
The story is about subprime credit cards, how much of a rip-off these are and how finally the regulators are going after some bad behavior by the card issuers. That is all reported well as it should be. To spike an otherwise dry story, the author adds some human interest.
A former Navy hospital corpsman with disabilities, [Wendy] Adams received a popular subprime card — the Aspen MasterCard — in June 2006. She was approved for a $350 credit limit, but when the card arrived, Adams said, she’d already been billed for $285 in processing fees, leaving her only about $65 in available credit.
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