The Sunrise News Sampler

Northport Council President Jay Logan plans to propose a new retail development incentive policy, which is pretty close to the existing policy. The new policy is said to include the involvement of the Northport City Council and city staff in the recruitment of new businesses.

Yvonne Maddox of the National Institutes of Health is expected to speak about the state's rising infant mortality rate at Alabama State University this morning.

An Alabama county is using gas produced by its landfill to produce electricity. Reports say Dekalb County is converting methane gas collected in wells at the landfill as trash decomposes into electricity that can power almost 3,000 homes.

A Fairhope doctor has pleaded guilty to trading prescription drugs for sex with patients. Sixty-year-old Joseph Ndolo pleaded guilty to three federal drug charges and is expected to be sentenced on Aug. 22. Federal prosecutors in Mobile say Ndolo ran a pill mill from his clinic between 2008 and 2013.

The federal government wants to regulate electronic cigarettes, a fast-growing industry. Today the Food and Drug Administration will propose banning the sales of e-cigarettes to minors and requiring approval for new products and health warning labels.

Afghan insurgents who have held a U.S. soldier for five years are said to want to negotiate a deal, but they're not sure which American officials have the authority.

Three American physicians are dead and a U.S. nurse is wounded after an Afghan security guard opened fire on a group of foreign doctors at a Kabul hospital. The shooting at Cure International Hospital is the latest in a string of deadly attacks on foreign civilians in the Afghan capital this year. Two of the dead were a father and son.

The battle lines appear to have been drawn for a major conflict between the massive U.S. food industry and American citizens who overwhelmingly say they approve of proper labelling of genetically modified foods. Supporters say people have a right to know what's in their food.

Joan Rivers is coming under fire for making fun of the living conditions of the women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade.