<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Alabama</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/al?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><description>Alabama</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Filibuster Fray Lifts Profile of Minister]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45667-2005May8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45667-2005May8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In his home town of Pearland, Tex., Baptist minister Rick Scarborough was tireless in promoting his conservative Christian way of thinking.]]></description><author> Shailagh Murray</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Factory Orders Up in March]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35445-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35445-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  U.S. factory orders rose 0.1 percent in March, to $378.2 billion, the Commerce Department said. Orders fell 0.5 percent in February, the department said. It previously reported an increase in February. Orders for capital goods excluding aircraft fell 4 percent in March after falling 2.1 percent in February. Those bookings so far this year are still 10.4 percent higher than they were in January to March 2004.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hoyer Reviewing His Travel Records]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18657-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18657-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) is reviewing privately financed trips he made after Republicans suggested that he  might have violated House rules by not reporting the travel within 30 days.]]></description><author> Miranda S. Spivack</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Airways Cuts May Have Cleared Way  For a Merger]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7462-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7462-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ America West Holdings Corp. began its talks with US Airways Group Inc. about a possible merger more than a year ago but was reluctant to move forward aggressively until US Airways reduced its labor costs significantly, a former US Airways executive said yesterday.]]></description><author> Keith L. Alexander</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music Producers to Honor Rosa Parks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54589-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54589-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Attorneys for civil rights icon and a group of music producers settled a dispute over the use of her name by the hip-hop group OutKast.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympic Park Bomber Pleads Guilty]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49309-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49309-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ATLANTA, April 13  --  Serial bomber Eric Rudolph on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and two other Atlanta explosions after confessing earlier in the day to bombing an Alabama abortion clinic.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope for Asbestos Bill Blossoms, Then Withers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48253-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48253-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the legislative day dawned on Capitol Hill yesterday, an unexpected ray of hope arrived with it: A bill to resolve the asbestos crisis, pronounced dead a month ago, appeared to be alive once more.]]></description><author> Albert B. Crenshaw</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Expert Witness, a Few Tough Questions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40732-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40732-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ANNISTON, Ala.  --  When he arrived here three years ago, Robert David Madrid brought with him an easy charm and a voluminous risumi. It boasted an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, a master's degree from Georgetown University, a medical degree from Harvard and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The icing was his membership in the high-IQ society, Mensa.]]></description><author> Frederick Burger</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a Young U.S. Seminarian, the Reading of His Life]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38442-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38442-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It would be an exaggeration to say that John G. McDonald is a nobody in the Roman Catholic Church.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudolph To Plead Guilty To Bombings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37544-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37544-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Man who eluded federal capture for more than five years in the North Carolina woods has agreed to plead guilty to four attacks, including the deadly explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.]]></description><author> Dan Eggen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want Kids to Read? 'Get Them Laughing']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17437-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17437-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the early 1970s, Christopher Paul Curtis graduated from high school and decided there was no reason to go to college if he could work in a car factory and make enough to buy himself a cassette player with five-foot-high speakers and a pale lemon Camaro with a houndstooth interior.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Court Supports Title IX Protection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9404-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9404-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruled  that the law prohibits not only unequal treatment of girls and women at school, but also official retaliation against anyone who blows the whistle on unequal treatment.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jet in N.J. Crash Was Too Heavy, NTSB Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61683-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61683-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A business jet that ran off the runway and crashed into a warehouse near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey last month was too heavy to take off, according to a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board yesterday.]]></description><author> Sara Kehaulani Goo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Declines to Wade Into Judge Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54919-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54919-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has decided to stay out of the bitter fight over judicial nominations, at least for now, announcing that it will not hear three challenges to the right of one of Bush's appointees to sit on the federal appeals court.]]></description><author> Charles Lane</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Battle on Teaching  Evolution Sharpens]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32444-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32444-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Propelled by a polished strategy crafted by activists on America's political right, policymakers in 19 states are weighing proposals that question the science of evolution.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SUNDAY]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28538-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28538-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Sports <br>   College Basketball.  SWAC championship: Alabama State vs. Alabama A&#38;M (ESPN2 at noon); ACC championship (Channel 20 and ESPN at 1); SEC championship (Channel 9 at 1); Southland championship: Southeastern Louisiana vs. Northwestern State (ESPN2 at 2): Big 12 championship (ESPN at 3); Big Ten championship (Channel 9, 3:30); NCAA Women's Tournament selection show (ESPN at 5); NCAA Men's Tournament selection show (Channel 9 at 7).]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 'Regina,' a Vanishing Audience]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28631-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28631-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  After about 40 anesthetizing minutes of "Regina," the woman seated behind me in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall offered up her worried review.]]></description><author> Peter Marks</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SEC Chief Calls for Credit-Rater Oversight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21911-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21911-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission told a Senate committee yesterday that if it wants "rigorous" oversight of the credit-rating industry, Congress will have to enact legislation to give the agency power to regulate the business.]]></description><author> Alec Klein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Panel Hesitant on Video Game Limits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18432-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18432-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Proponents of sale restrictions, similar to a measure proposed in the District, argue that explicit games have incited a wave of violence across the country.]]></description><author> David Snyder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Constituents Caught In Battle Over Subsidies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15353-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15353-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_nation/states/al</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:04:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Bush administration proposal that would cut billions in subsidies to big cotton growers has set off a battle in Republican congressional ranks that pits budget cutters and against traditional agricultural interests.]]></description><author> Dan Morgan</author></item></channel></rss>