The Sunrise News Sampler

Attorneys are selecting a jury for the murder trial of Tracey Grissom of Northport, who is charged in the gunshot slaying of her ex-husband Hunter Grissom. She is said to have killed him at a boat landing on May 15, 2012.

The city of Tuscaloosa has been awarded a $75,000 grant by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management Recycling fund to be used on a recycling campaign. A 10% of recycling increase statewide can create more than 1400 jobs, $66 million in personal income and $3 million in annual tax revenue.

U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued an order yesterday temporarily blocking enforcement of the law that requires doctors at abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges, citing that lawmakers exceeded their authority in passing the legislation.

Bertha has weakened to a tropical storm just a day after becoming a hurricane as it moves northward in the Atlantic, posing no direct threat to the U.S. East Coast. More gradual weakening is expected over the next two days.

A chartered plane specially equipped to contain infectious diseases is on its way to Atlanta with Nancy Writebol, an American aid worker stricken with Ebola in Liberia.  She is to be treated at Emory University Hospital, where her colleague is already being treated with an experimental drug never tested for safety in humans.

The rating agency Standard and Poor's says the rising wealth gap in the United States is complicating the rebound from the rececession, as it has made the economy more prone to boom-bust cycles.

Food manufacturers have until today to make sure packages labeled as gluten-free meet certain standards, such as containing only 20 parts per million of gluten.

5-year-old Robert Tufts, who was elected mayor of Dorset, Minnesota when he was only 3 has lost his re-election bid to 16-year-old Eric Mueller, whose name was drawn from a ballot box.

Sandra Bullock is said to be Hollywood's highest earning actress, with an estimated $51 million in earnings between June 2013 and June 2014.