BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Churches and faith-based groups are staging a march against Alabama's new law targeting illegal immigrants.
The protest is planned for Saturday evening in Birmingham. More than 1,400 people said they planned to attend on a Facebook page set up for the demonstration, and planners are expecting many more.
Both supporters and opponents of the law describe it as the nation's toughest state crackdown on illegal immigration.
Many of the protest leaders are from Christian churches, and they say law violates biblical principles and could criminalize basic ministry activities like providing food, transportation or housing assistance to the needy if the recipient is in the United States illegally.
Governor Robert Bentley has said the nation has a real problem with illegal immigration, and he's pleased legislators passed such a tough law.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Soaking rains this week have raised the Lake Purdy water reservoir level to an amount considered safe.
Some 1.64 inches of rain fell at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport Tuesday through Thursday.
That helped raise Lake Purdy to what a level the Birmingham Water Works considers a "safe yield."
The rains also broke the back of a blistering heat wave that forced Gov. Robert Bentley to issue a "no burn" order throughout Alabama.
Information from: The Birmingham News, http://www.al.com/birminghamnews
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) The Hangout Music Festival along Alabama's shores may have injected $30 million into the area's economy.
Gulf Shores Finance Director Cindy King said the official revenues from the May event has yet to be totaled, but she said about $20 million was spent in the city during the three days of the festival.
She said the "ripple effect" on Orange Beach, Foley and other coastal cities could reach at least $10 million.
The event packed the streets and beech in front of the concert. Some 35,000 people were estimated to have attended the festival each day.
Meanwhile, city officials and organizers are already contemplating next year's event.
Information from: Press-Register, http://www.al.com/press-register/
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) The tornadoes and floods that pummeled much of the South and Midwest also have dealt a serious blow to struggling state budgets. The storms could force new cuts to education and other services to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in disaster aid.
Most state budgets were already reeling from the economy when a huge outbreak of tornadoes marched across the South in late April, followed in May by more twisters and flooding that extended into the Midwest.
The first of those cuts have already hit home in Missouri, where students will be saddled with greater college costs, and grants for domestic violence shelters have been trimmed.
TALBOTTON, Ga. (AP) A fourth Talbot County law enforcement official was charged this week in a widespread corruption investigation.
Talbot County Sheriff's Office jailer Michael Gamble appeared before a judge Friday on bribery and other charges.
Prosecutors say he accepted a $500 bribe from a confidential source in June in exchange for providing safe passage and travel to trafficking illegal drugs in the area. He is also accused of accepting a $200 cash bribe in May to look up criminal history and vehicle tag information for a source.
Gamble's release came a day after three other Talbot County lawmen were freed on their own recognizance.
Sheriff's Major Jeff Sivell, part-time deputy sheriff Charlie Stephens and former Talbotton police officer Alvin Malone pleaded not guilty to Thursday to federal charges of extortion.
Information from: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, http://ledger-enquirer.com
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