The Sunrise News Sampler
- Tomorrow morning will begin the first of this week's interviews for the Superintendent position of Tuscaloosa County Schools. All interviews will be held in the board room of the Central Office and are open to the public.
- According to our daily, Kemmons Wilson is asking the city of Tuscaloosa to modify an economic incentive package approved in September to assist the development of an upscale hotel downtown. The city council's Projects Committee agreed to authorize the mayor and city staff to negotiate with the developer regarding increased costs.
- Alabama legislators have passed bills that would make it easier to criminally charge people who abuse, neglect, or financially exploit the elderly.
- Governor Bentley says Alabama insurance regulators will not enforce consumer protection provisions of the federal health care overhaul law and that Washington will be responsible for enforcing the law.
- Today, President Obama will meet with families in Sandy Hook, Connecticut as he works to drum up public opinion on gun legislation. Legislation was recently signed in Connecticut in the wake of the Newtown school shootings.
- Senators are writing a comprehensive immigration bill before public debate over measures to secure the border, allow thousands of foreign workers into the country, and create a path to citizenship begins.
- A civil trial will begin in California today over whether the nation's largest baby food makers should alert consumers that some products contain low amounts of lead.
- Today, Israel came to a standstill for two minutes as the nation remembered the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and the collaborators during the Holocaust.
- TMZ reports that Halle Berry is expecting a baby this fall with fiance Olivier Martinez.
- Michigan and Louisville will face off tonight for the NCAA title.
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