From the Tax Foundation “Today’s map highlights the extent to which sales taxes are responsible for tax revenue generation in each state. Washington – lacking both a corporate and an individual income tax but levying the harmful gross receipts tax on businesses – relies the most on sales tax revenue, which accounts for 45.9 percent of total tax collections. Tennessee,…
Aziz Ihab Sayyed, 23, of Huntsville, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town for the Northern District of Alabama, and Special Agent in Charge…
A CBS News investigation reveals several Republican attorneys general attended a lavish retreat in South Carolina. Among those seen attending the retreat was Alabama Attorney General Steven Marshall. The report cites that several lobbyists shelled out $125,000 to also attend the four day event. Many of these lobbyists represent companies with cases before some of the attorneys general. For a…
A Troy University professor was part of a research project that shows Native Americans in Alabama were using tobacco for religious and ritual some 1,500 years earlier than thought. From a Troy University news release: “Dr. Stephen Carmody, an assistant professor of anthropology, along with Dr. Jon Russ of Rhodes College and Dr. Jera Davis of New South…
An Alabama mayor is backing down from an attempt to ban the media and out-of-towners from council meetings. Paint Rock Mayor Brenda Fisk tells WAAY-TV she issued the ban earlier this year without knowing it would violate the law. Fisk says she wanted to avoid City Council meetings becoming a “circus” like they did a few years ago during a…
Police in Eufaula are investigation after finding an illegal moonshine operation and dozens of fermentation barrels. Eufaula Police Sgt. Donald Brown told news outlets Tuesday that 36 fermentation barrels were found in a wooded area on Monday. He says the barrels could produce about $7,500 on each run. Brown says about 250 gallons of moonshine was found. Authorities say a…
The victim of a murder in Butler County has been identified as a missing Montgomery woman. According to Butler County Sheriff Kenny Harden, the body of 18-year-old Maura McCoy was discovered Sunday afternoon in the woods off of Mount Pisgah Road. McCoy was reported missing this weekend. Authorities have charged 18-year-old Harrison Cole English with murder. He’s being held in…
A former deputy accused of choking one woman and sexually assaulting another is jailed in Alabama. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets Monday that 27-year-old James William Parsons is charged with escape as well as domestic violence by strangulation and sodomy. One woman said she and Parsons were living together when he choked her until she couldn’t breathe….
Alabama’s Thank You, or “Merci” boxcar at the foot of the capitol Building in Montgomery, 1949 The Merci Train, also known as the French Gratitude Train or the Forty and Eight, included 49 boxcars filled with “gifts of gratitude”. It arrived in New York City on February 3, 1949 and was divided among the 48 states with the remaining…
The National Weather Service confirms at least three tornadoes in Alabama from Sunday storms, and is surveying other parts of southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. A storm with estimated winds of 80 mph (130 kph) overturned five recreational vehicles at the Anchors Aweigh RV Resort near Foley after 3 p.m. The storm, with a 1.6-mile (2.6-kilometer) path, was rated…
