Gadsden police are searching for a man that they say fled the scene of an attempted robbery at a Gadsden pharmacy Thursday afternoon. According to Capt. Regina May, a white male walked into the pharmacy at 401 S. First St. in Gadsden at around 1:45 p.m. Thursday afternoon and asked for paid medication and fled the pharmacy when he heard a call being placed to 911. May said it was unknown if the man was armed. He has not yet been identified and an investigation is ongoing.
Another person has placed his name in the running for a vacant seat on the Anniston city council. Richard Thompson applied late Wednesday and joins Chris Abernathy; Marcus Dunn, Brian Harmon, Millie Harris, Bill Robison and Joel Russell in the bid for the seat vacated by the resignation of ward four councilman David Dawson. Mayor Gene Robinson says the council will interview the candidates during a work session Monday afternoon. The person selected will serve the remainder of David Dawson’s term, which expires in October.
A Weaver woman, accused of murder in the stabbing death of her husband two years ago has been convicted of a lesser charge of manslaughter by a Calhoun County jury. Jurors
deliberated more than five hours before returning the manslaughter conviction against 36 year old Jacquindalyn Carr. Carr faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Carr fatally stabbed her husband, Demetrious, in the neck with a steak knife during a domestic dispute at their home on Maumee Drive on May 2, 2010. Carr claimed she was acting in self-defense. Carr is scheduled to be sentenced on May 16. Prosecutors say they will ask that Carr receive the maximum sentence of 20 years.
Gov. Robert Bentley issued his first vetos Thursday, vetoing three locally unpopular bills dealing with distribution of tobacco taxes in Randolph, Chambers and Clay counties. The bills were drafted by Sen. Gerald Dial of lineville. According to the Governors Press Secretary Jennifer Ardis, the governor was concerned that the legal advertising for the bills did not reflect the bills intent. A spokesman in the governors office said that the part of the bill that struck employees in the governors legal office, and the people who read the bills was that Sen. Dial was basically creating a slush fund for campaigns. Randolph County Bipartisan Coalition members who opposed the bill affecting Randolph County issued a written statement saying they were very appreciative of Gov. Robert Bentley for recognizing that the Dial-Laird tobacco tax bills were very bad for the citizens of Randolph and neighboring counties and for the whole state of Alabama. Observers say it is unlikely that the legislature will attempt to overturn the governors veto in the final days of the current session. The bills would have changed or eliminated agency funding derived from tobacco taxes Rep. Richard Laird's district of Randolph, Clay and Chambers. Dial, who is the majority whip in the Senate, represents those counties as well as portions of or all of Cherokee, Cleburne and Lee counties.
Drought conditions that continue to plague Alabama and Georgia have prompted federal authorities to begin drought operations. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says drought conditions are continuing in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basins, triggering the requirement that the agency enters drought operations. Officer E. Patrick Robbins, an agency spokesman, says that starting drought operations means the minimum flow into the Apalachicola River to protect threatened and endangered species will be 5,000 cubic feet per
second. He said the minimum flow will be maintained as the Corps stores all available rainfall when possible until the basin recovers sufficiently. Authorities say that despite spring rains in March, the overall conditions on the Flint and lower parts of the Chattahoochee have remained in a drought situation since the end of last summer.
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