Daily Dixie: The Top 10
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Entries for September 5th, 2007
Willingham In, Others to Follow in Race for Morrison’s Seat
Danny has the latest on the race to replace Neal Morrison in Alabama House District 12. Wayne Willingham, a Cullman County commissioner announced yesterday that he is in and a number of other candidates appear to be considering a run.
The Spanking Judge
You’ve heard of the hanging judge? Well, evidently Mobile had its very own spanking judge.
Authorities are investigating allegations that now-suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas periodically removed prisoners from Mobile County Metro Jail and spanked them in a room at the courthouse, according to courthouse sources involved in the inquiry.
Once inside the room, according to the sources, the judge would ask the young men to drop their pants and prepare to be spanked with what they described as a wooden or fraternity-like paddle.
Apparently the judge believed that if these men had been spanked as children, they wouldn’t be in his courtroom…right.
Authorities investigating paddling allegations against Judge Thomas- al.com
Home Depot Back Out of Pike Road
The battle over the Home Depot on Chantilly Parkway got weird last night when the Montgomery County Commission voted to take back the property that it had voted at last month’s meeting to allow the town of Pike Road to annex. Of course, the mayor of Pike Road, Gordon Stone is crying foul, but I’m not sure he’s right.
It appears the bluster from the mayor of Montgomery, Bobby Bright, over the initial annexation had an impact on the votes of the commissioners.
montgomeryadvertiser.com�::� Home Depot up for grabs between county, Pike Road