Alabama News

Posted: Wed 1:40 PM, Dec 31, 2003

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Reporter: Associated Press

Updated: Wed 1:40 PM, Dec 31, 2003

Top 10 news stories of 2003 in Alabama:

Ten Commandments monument moved and Roy Moore ousted as chief justice.
Governor Bob Riley's $1.2 billion tax plan rejected by voters by two to one margin.
HealthSouth Corp.'s $2.7 billion accounting fraud scandal and Richard Scrushy indictment.
Eric Rudolph captured and returned to Birmingham for trial in deadly abortion clinic bombing.
Alabama Guard and reserves deployed to Iraq and support posts.
Army chemical weapons incinerator begins burning Cold War-era stockpile at Anniston.
Jury orders Exxon Mobil to pay state a record $11.9 billion suit over oil and gas royalties.
Settlements valued in the $800 million range are reached in Anniston PCBs contamination cases.
Corruption probes bring guilty pleas from ex-Siegelman aide Nick Bailey and lobbyist Lanny Young but dismissal of case against Senator Roger Bedford.
Marshall Space Flight Center director Art Stephenson steps down and the Huntsville center assumes blame for foam problem in the Columbia disaster.