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KEEPSAKE EDITION
Ruby Lamp holds a re
Seventy-two died, bu
Tragedy
Heavy fall snows Thursday along Interstate-65 in Hartselle. Snow fell in Central and North Alabama, sending kids home from schools early along with other closures. (AP)
WINTER WEATHER
Snow one day, slippery the next
Mark McCarter
Columnist
Lee Roop ◗ [email protected]
higher elevations.
Temperatures were expected to be in the mid-20s
this morning, so any moisture that isn’t gone from
roadways, bridges and sidewalks will freeze, making
the morning commute difficult.
“We will see some black ice,” said Kurt Weber, meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Huntsville. Black ice isn’t really black; it’s clear ice that freezes
and appears invisible on roads and other surfaces.
As the weather event passed, Weber said that most
of the snow fell south and east of Madison County in
Cullman, Morgan and Marshall counties. “We’ve had
several reports of around 3 inches,” he
said.photos were sh
These
Snow accumulations were much less in Madison
County — ranging from a trace to an inch — but the
T
he first snow event of the season in
North Alabama disappeared almost
as fast as it came Thursday, but left behind
a slippery, sloshy mess that will make driving treacherous early today.
Snow moved out of North Alabama late in the afternoon, and residents in some areas even got to see the
sun. The afternoon commute started early as schools
and major employers called it a day around lunchtime, but road conditions slowly improved except for
Brittany Fulmer walks through a snow storm in a mall
parking lot in Florence. Much of the state was under
winter storm warnings Thursday. (AP)
See SNOW, Page 6A
BUSINESS /// A10
REDSTONE ARSENAL
Army officer convicted
on federal theft, false
statement charges
Brian Lawson
[email protected]
A Redstone Arsenal-based
Army officer was convicted
Thursday in federal court in
Huntsville on charges of theft
of government property and
false statements, according to
the U.S. Attorney’s office in Birmingham.
Lieutenant Col. James
O. McLinnaham, 45, who is
stationed at Redstone Arse-
nal in Huntsville, was found
guilty by a jury after a threeday trial before U.S. District
Judge Abdul K. Kallon.
McLinnaham was found
guilty of three counts of making false statements on federal
disclosure forms; one count
of making false statements in
a questionnaire for national
security clearance; and three
counts of making false stateSee OFFICER, Page 6A
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INDEX
Volume 103,
Number 298
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Calhoun in 5-s
GUN CONTROL
INSIDE
Obama signs gun violence package
Calhoun Community
than 30 community c
an alliance within the
Valley Science and Te
region.
President vows to use
‘whatever weight this
office holds’ to press
Congress to action
SPORTS /// C1
Braves get ano
Erica Werner
COULD STATE
PRIVATIZE
BOOZE SALES?
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Braced for a
fight, President Barack Obama
on Wednesday unveiled the
most sweeping proposals for
curbing gun violence in two
decades, pressing a reluctant
Congress to pass universal
Alabama’s familiar ABC
stores could be replaced
with independent liquor
stores under a proposal
to privatize the retail functions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. 8A
See VIOLENCE, Page 6A
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brot
toda
repo
Left to right: Hinna Zeejah, 8, Taejah Goode, 10, Julia
Orla
Stokes, 11, and Grant Fritz, 8, who wrote letters to
President Barack Obama, watch Wednesday as the sign
president signs executive orders outlining proposals to
uct,
reduce gun violence. (AP)
Kim
Matt Kimbrel
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