Tuskegee News

Gov. Bob Riley says the state will provide assistance to laid off casino workers even though he considers the casinos illegal.

" Governor Bob Riley said the state's Rapid Response Team will assist workers at Alabama's illegal casinos who became unemployed when the casino operators shut their doors.

Beginning February 17, 2010, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site's Hangar #1 Museum will be open for tours Wednesday-Sunday. Tours are free of charge to the public.

The Montgomery Public School System announced the two nominees for teacher of the year Friday.

Living legends visited Tifton on Friday afternoon to speak with students at Matt Wilson Elementary School.

Published: Friday, February 5, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 8:54 p.m. The storyline is about men in their 80s and the amazing things they did in World War II, but the moral of these stories is very much aimed at the young.

Gov. Bob Riley said Wednesday he decided to crack down on gambling machines because some prosecutors in Alabama were unwilling to enforce gambling laws as electronic bingo games spread.

Arguably among the most flagrant human rights violations in American history, the 40-year Tuskegee syphilis study, which ended in 1972, still has repercussions for many African-Americans who remember the case, Village at Ithaca Executive Director Cal Walker told the Rotary Club on Wednesday.

Two Alabama casinos closed their doors temporarily, prompting Gov. Bob Riley to question if they are making changes in their machines in hopes of avoiding legal problems.

Members of the Tuske gee Chapter of Jack and Jill of America Inc. have spent the last two years making plans for an evening of 'Enchanting Elegance,' the group's 15th Cotillion.

Published: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 6:16 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 6:16 p.m. New claims in a Macon County lawsuit say that former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford pocketed more than $1.5 million in winnings from Milton McGregor's VictoryLand electronic bingo casino.

Lt. Col. Lee Archer died Jan. 27, 2010, at the age of 90. He was a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen and flew some 169 combat missions during World War II.

Louis R. Harlan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at the University of Maryland whose two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington made him one of the nation's foremost scholars of the history of race relations, died Jan.

A Lakeland man has pleaded guilty to killing two stepbrothers. According to the State Attorney's Office in Bartow, John Odom pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of first degree murder and one count of armed robbery.

Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City.

Civil-rights activist. Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.

A Lee County jury is expected to be selected this week to hear the case against a Tallassee man charged with forcing his way into an Auburn residence and shooting an occupant.

From green heat to Haitian relief, from the civil rights era to the future of equality, here's the week in military notes.

The troops on both sides are arming for a fight over a bill that would allow private casinos to offer the same games as Indian operations until November, when supporters hope an amendment will be on the ballot to allow people to decide if they want to tax and regulate gambling.

Colonel Thomas Mayfield, Willingboro, NJ and Dr. Leslie Hayling, Trenton, NJ were honored as The Morrisville Library celebrated Tuskegee Airmen as American Heroes Wednesday.