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...ALABAMA 3rd District...
...state tax increase if food and drugs were exempted from the sales tax; his wife is an ardent feminist who uses her maiden name, and he is a competent jazz saxophonist. He looks like a Kennedy and even breaks his campaigning for impromptu touch-football games. Along with Alabama's ["Fob"] James, 44, Florida's [Robert] Graham, 42, and South Carolina's Richard Riley, 45, he is part of a drove of Democrats who have infused fresh blood into Southern Governors' mansions and who may someday--it has happened before--be important on the national scene. --TIME...
...stump, you are more likely these days to hear Democratic candidates touting their Second Amendment bona fides. Bill Clinton's former Energy Secretary, Bill Richardson, is campaigning for Governor as "the choice for New Mexico gun owners and sportsmen." Joe Turnham, a Democrat running for Congress in Alabama, sums himself up this way: "pro-gun, pro-God, pro--good ole boy." And Missouri's Jean Carnahan, battling to hold on to her Senate seat, boasts of the sharpshooting medal that she won in college. She has even invited reporters to watch her waste a few skeet with...
...sniper calls the Rev. William Sullivan of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Ashland, Va., above, raving, "I am God." In garbled speech, the caller refers to the D.C.-area shootings as well as a crime in Alabama. Thinking he has a prankster on the line, Sullivan hangs up and does not report the call...
...speedy justice to alleged criminals who have the poor sense to commit their crimes without regard to state lines - and provides the death penalty for those found guilty. As a juvenile, the 17-year-old Malvo is eligible for execution only if he's found guilty in Virginia and Alabama; Maryland and federal statutes forbid the execution of minors...