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May 20, 2013
The Rockmart Library wants to thank Jack & Connie Montfort and the Rockmart Huddle House for the support they had for our Summer Reading Club for children. Their presence will be missed in Rockmart.
Alabama lawmakers approve sweeping gun bill
by BILL BARROW, Associated Press
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ATLANTA — An overhaul of Alabama's gun laws is on the way to Gov. Robert Bentley, who is expected to sign the proposal. The House approved the final version 73-28 Monday afternoon. Under the plan, employees would be able to have firearms in their cars at work, and businesses couldn't be sued for any harm resulting from the use of those weapons. Loaded weapons could be carried in cars by anyone with a concealed carry permit. A driver could carry an unloaded weapon, as long as it is out of reach, even without a permit. Sheriffs would have to issue a written justification for denying a concealed weapons permit, and denials could be appealed. Sheriffs now have complete discretion over requests for permits. Lawmakers must adjourn the annual session by midnight.
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Senators require fingerprinting at 30 airports
by ERICA WERNER, Associated Press
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FILE photo (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
FILE photo (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators working on a bipartisan immigration bill have agreed to require fingerprinting when foreigners leave the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports. It's a step toward the more expansive biometric system favored by many senators but deemed too expensive to include in the bill. Under the amendment by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the nation's 10 busiest airports would have to establish a fingerprinting system within two years. Within six years it would have to be in place at the 30 busiest airports. The amendment passed 13 to 5 Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee plunged into its third week of deliberations on the immigration legislation. Lawmakers have cited the absence of a reliable system to track people coming and going as a major security flaw.
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Senators work through changes to immigration bill
by ERICA WERNER, Associated Press
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U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch addresses the Utah Republican Party's annual organizing convention Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Sandy, Utah.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch addresses the Utah Republican Party's annual organizing convention Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Sandy, Utah.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators working on a wide-ranging immigration bill have agreed to tighten controls on the asylum system that allows people fleeing war or persecution to find refuge in the U.S. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina offered the amendment, which would terminate asylum or refugee status for anyone who returns home to the country they fled, unless they can show a good reason for doing so. Graham said the change was merited in light of the Boston Marathon bombings. The brothers who allegedly set off the bombs arrived in the U.S. as boys when their family sought asylum here. The amendment was approved on voice vote Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee entered its third week of weighing amendments to a bipartisan immigration bill.
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Ga. widow to be re-arraigned in husband's death
by The Associated Press
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ATLANTA — A woman accused of arranging for her husband to be killed outside a suburban Atlanta preschool is set to be arraigned for a third time. Andrea Sneiderman is scheduled to appear before a DeKalb County Superior Court judge Tuesday. She is being arraigned again after prosecutors filed a revised indictment. Sneiderman is accused of arranging for her former boss, Hemy Neuman, to kill her husband, Russell Sneiderman, outside a Dunwoody preschool in 2010. A jury last year found Neuman guilty but mentally ill of killing Rusty Sneiderman. Andrea Sneiderman has repeatedly said she was not involved in her husband's death. The revised indictment clarifies some of the language in the charges against her.
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