According to our daily, the Tuscaloosa city officials have approved spending just over $750,000 for the purchasing of a new dispatch console for the new 911 facility that is developing in Northport. The system currently used is said to be over 30 years old.

A free health clinic at the McDonald Hughes Center, operated by pre-med students at the University of Alabama, is working to help people with chronic problems in West Tuscaloosa. The clinic is open from 1-5pm on Wednesdays.

A jury failed to reach a quick verdict yesterday in the perjury trial of Rep. Barry Moore and will resume their deliberations today at the Opelika courthouse.

The Alabama State Bar will hold its fall admission ceremony in Montgomery this morning, adding hundreds of new attorneys to the state.

The Alabama Securities Commission is warning people to be on guard against investment schemes related to Ebola, especially those received through the Internet, as con artists try to make a quick score during times of fear or uncertainty.

A Liberian health official says he agrees with a World Health Organization analysis that the rate of transmission of Ebola appears to be slowing in his country, but he says it's still too soon to celebrate.

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who recently returned from West Africa, is fighting a 21-day incubation quarantine, and state officials in Maine are trying to get a judge to sign off on a request to forcibly keep her isolated, which state troopers say they cannot do without a judge's approval.

Talk show host Wendy Williams has come under fire by GLADD for remakes she made about Bruce Jenner's pink nail polish and gender identity. Some on social media attacked Williams, saying Jenner's nails may have been painted in support of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

The San Francisco Giants won the World Series last night, beating the Kansas City Royals 3-2.

Suge Knight and Katt Williams have been arrested on suspicion of stealing a camera from a female paparazzo.

 

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