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Montgomery, Alabama – Listen,now,to some of the stories making headlines this hour in the WVAS newsroom. Send your news items to Tana Shealey via e-mail at tshealey@alasu.edu or call the newsroom at 334-229-4783.

Montgomery, Alabama –
Alabama officials speculate the state will receive about $3 billion dollars from the $787 billion dollar economic stimulus bill.

Alabama Education Association Executive Secretary Paul Hubbert says the portion set aside for education should help keep about 3,700 Alabama teachers and 4,000 support personnel from losing their jobs.

State Senator Hank Sanders, who chairs the Senate Education and Budget Committee, says while the funds will help, he is not sure if the portion for education will stem layoffs.

Montgomery, Alabama – Listen,now,to some of the stories making headlines in the WVAS newsroom. Send your news items to Tana Shealey via e-mail at tshealey@alasu.edu or call 334-229-4783.

Montgomery, Alabama – The men who would be mayor of Montgomery will be busy with two different debates scheduled for tonight.

One mayoral debate is scheduled to be held at the McIntyre Community Center from 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Another debate is scheduled at Flowers Hall at Huntingdon College tonight beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Looking ahead to Thursday night, a debate is scheduled at First Baptist Church in downtown Montgomery from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Montgomery, Alabama – For Wilcox County, an already bad situation is worsening. Wilcox County has Alabama's highest unemployment rate, and recently the Wilcox County Community of Pine Hill lost 300 jobs with the closing of a mill.

Alabama Congressman Artur Davis, the only member of Alabama's congressional delegation to vote in favor of the economic stimulus bill, says the measure will offer some immediate help by extending unemployment benefits for the nation's jobless. Davis says long-term benefits include the creation of jobs around the nation.

Montgomery, Alabama –
NBA-ALL STAR GAME
Reunited in victory

Montgomery, Alabama – MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Secretary of State Beth Chapman says
she's seriously considering running for lieutenant governor in
2010.
Chapman says she will make a decision by June 1 on whether to
enter the Republican race. If she doesn't, she says she will seek a
second term as secretary of state.
The former chairman of the political science department at the
University of Alabama, William Stewart, says Chapman would be a
formidable candidate because of her experience in state government

Montgomery, Alabama – Listen,now, to some of the stories making headlines this hour in the WVAS newsroom.

Montgomery, Alabama – Listen,now, to some of the stories making headlines this hour in the WVAS Newsroom.

Montgomery, Alabama – Listen,now,to some of the stories making headlines this hour in the WVAS newsroom.